TODAY
- Timed posing: Smitten
- Review next assignment: Key-frame and MoCap (KM)
- FIA and you: what we'll be doing week 12-end
- Test attempt - get Mocap onto Simon.
This assignment will account for 20% of your final
grade.
This is be due at 11:59 pm on week 12
KeyFrame with MoCap (KM) Module 8-12.
Using the planning from the previous assignment (MP), students will
schedule time to shoot their scene on the MoCap stage. The capture will be
cleanup up following the tutorial provided and integrated with your key-frame
facial performance.
If you want to change your plan from the previous assignment, you will
have to re-do your planning before you get on the stage space. 20 min is not a
lot of time, so you shouldn't show up and try to "wing it"
The entire scene should be 30-45 seconds long. Slightly longer is
allowed but not advised. (think about how much facial and hand
animation will be needed. Dialogue must be 6-11 seconds per character. More
dialogue is allowed but also not advised: consider the volume of
work more than 11 sec of dialogue will entail.
Try to take advantage of the medium: make use of the space and move
around. If you have sitting characters, think about shifting their weight in
the chair. Keep those stationary characters breathing, reacting and alive.
Students are responsible for booking MoCap stage space as well, so don't
leave this to the last minute (see info about YouCanBookMe on
FOL).
What I'll be grading on this assignment:
- Have you captured the
performance on the MoCap stage and cleaned the data to remove pops and
hitches? (no hiccups or spasms)
- Are the feet locking to the
surface (watch those ground intersections)
- Does the lip sync match the
dialogue with broad viseme shapes? (no mushy mouths)
- Does the pantomime
performance support the acting in the scene with broad range of movement
and changes in tempo? (no frozen characters)
- Do your camera cuts follow
rules of good staging and film making? (watch the axis line)
- Is the facial animation
complete with expressions that match the pantomime and dialogue? (avoid
dead-eyed characters with Botox)
- Are the hands well animated
with expressive poses that support the acting choices? (no "paddle
hands" please!)
Hand in will be as follows:
For Video:
<Member1 LastName>_<Member2 LastName>_MP.avi
with usual parameters:
- Mpeg4 compression
- 960 x 540 resolution (or
thereabouts)
eg. Wilkins_Latour_MP.avi
For Shot list:
<Member1 LastName>_<Member2 LastName>_KM.txt
Content of the text file should be written like this:
Shot 01 - <Last>_<First>
Shot 02 - <Last>_<First> etc.
eg. file name is Wilkins_Latour_KM.txt
content of the text file would be:
Shot 01 - Wilkins_Eric
Shot 02 - Latour_David
...etc
