3D Animation Pride and Prejudice Monologue Scene (Critique Welcome)

ZeEsTaR

Hi there ,

Below is a Monologue scene from Pride and Prejudice produced as a University assignment, the mo-cap data and model were provided but all lip sync/animation and mo-cap edits are my own work. All critique is welcome

Enjoy~

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIwZ9geAmew

Thank you for taking the time to watch it .

Arturow

Hello ZeEsTaR

Good work I have a couple of notes:
- The hands feel that they are hitting the same poses at the same time , try to avoid that perfect symmetry.
- The camera is a little bit weird with all those movements :P I don't know if the original scene was like that tho.
- Try to add some "overlap" to the eyes, what I mean is that when he close his eyes try to follow that movement too with the eyes a little bit, just to feel connected. Here is an example from Mike Safianoff  and this one from AnimSchool , animator Garrett Shikuma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73jRo4fwU3I
- Also the mouth is very symmetrical , in both sides of the face

Cool work hope it helps! !!

ZeEsTaR

Arturow said:

- The camera is a little bit weird with all those movements :P I don't know if the original scene was like that tho.

Thank you for the feedback and references Arturow , and i fully agree with you on the cameras and lack of overlapping for the eyes especially at the end i don't really know what I was trying to accomplish with the last camera, seemed like it could of been a cool idea at the time but after re-watching it 4-5 times its really started to let it down.

I was aiming for a good view of the character's facial expression to look worried/sad but i'm 100% sure a different angle would of been better especially the camera movement.

I'll start to push some of these changes over the Christmas break hope to update it soon.