Tomigs - TTR
Maria's Monologue
Short Monologue scene animation.
Link can be found HERE
The objective was exploring the lip sync and character's expression in a short animation.
The animation was done in MAYA(2018).
Source Material
The monologue (dialogue) is extracted from the film Gothica (2003, Mathieu Kassovitz).
On this scene Chloe (Penelope Cruz) speaks to Miranda (Halle Berry).
I re-interpreted the scene to a monologue, as if the character was speaking only to himself.
A professional actor was hired (*ehem*) to re-act the scene in front of a
camera to work out the movements and expressions.
Process:
A Storyboard was created for the scene:
The sounds were broken down to 5 basic shapes ("MEAOW") and broken down into a Dopesheet.
The animation was done using the rigging utility AbxPicker
Scripts were produced of each of the shapes of the sounds and put in the Custom shelf
Sound
The sound was extracted from that scene of the film, edited (using Audacity) and imported into Maya.
Editing
In Maya the strategy was to render in layers: separate renders of the background and the foreground.
This results in better performance and less rendering time.
Blender was used to composite the different animations created in Maya.
Other Info
This animation was done during November and December 2018.
The total time spent on it was about 42 hours.
It was done for the DKIT, Dundalk Institute of Technology, as part of the 3D Animation Higher Diploma.