This week I started to make animations. The animation contains camera animation, props animation and character animation.
Camera animations and prop animations are quite easy. I have already set up the rig and controlers on these props so that I just need to do some simple animations. However, character animations can be a big task, which not only has body animations but also facial performance. I tried to finish about 2-3 shots everyday so that I can have enough time to do VFX parts and compositions.
Based on my research on facial animations and expressions, I know exactly how to make facial expressions to express feelings. However, some of the shots still took me a lot of time to finish. I need to consider the rhythm of the whole shot and the layers of expressions. For example, I need to animate the face in several ways to show different levels of fear. When the scene becomes stranger and stranger, the emotion of character should keep changing so that audience can realize the situation becomes worse.
