Single-Person Dialogue – polish pass
Cleaned up the body and worked on the face. Spent a lot of time studying acting ~ really paying attention to eyes and hands. Amazing progress of learning this week ~ hit some “Ah-ha!” moments
The Way of Improvisation
This TED Talk is great ~ It’s about improv, but the steps discussed can be followed just in life in general. Good source for artists and life enthusiasts
More body language references!
William shared some more great resources with me regarding body language. Check them out!
Hand Poses
Tonight Marek focused on hand poses. For a reference, he used the Pixar short, “Geri’s Game.” Demonstrates the story that can be told through strong hand poses:
Single character dialogue
This week we were given Bishop, so I’m tackling my first shot AM of a character with a face. I ended up choosing the first dialogue clip. Here’s my first blocking:
Olympic moments in 3D!
In spirit of the McKayla Maroney memes, I recreated her in 3D. This is just another pose I chose to recreate. I’ve been practicing with different expressions to get used to manipulating the face rig on Bishop.
Lie to Me – Reading Emotions through Facial Expressions
I found another great resource for how our facial expressions change with emotion and thought processes:
Reading Gestures and Body Language
Now that we’re getting into acting, we’ve been studying body language. I found a good resource on youtube:
Eye Accessing Cues
Marek gave us some great notes regarding eye movements tonight. I didn’t know that the direction we looked toward meant we were accessing different parts of our memory. Very interesting resource