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Mouth corners in CG animation 0

Acting / Animation / Character design / Education

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Mouth corners in CG animation

When CG animation came out, it looked so different and so fresh compared to 2d animation that we could get away with a lot but the novelty effect has faded and the bar has been raised very high with CG entertainment. Funny enough, technology is finally enabling us to … go back to the appeal of the 2d aesthetics!

Shaping the mouth corners is  one of those 2d tips used in top studios to make the characters look less CG. By moving the outside corner closer inside the silhouette of the character, you will make the mouth shape more stylised and closer to what an illustrator would craft rather than a stupid computer.

Doesn’t the tweaked mouth shape look clearer and more appealing on this Sony’s “Angry Birds movie” presentation? I am posting the picture twice just so you can flip it and the link to the video is below.

Mouth corners after

Mouth corners after

Mouth corners before

Mouth corners before

 

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“Cloudy…” showreels 2

Animation

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“Cloudy…” showreels

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNlVBffLD88[/youtube]

Some animation showreels from animators who worked on “Cloudy with a chance of meatballs” have surfaced on the net. I am unsure if this was a very good idea since the movie has only been out for few week around the world but well… the movie is great so here is one more opportunity to see some of the best shots and maybe convince your friends to GO AND WATCH IT!

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Cloudy with a chance of …. Eyeballs! 4

Animation / Education

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Cloudy with a chance of …. Eyeballs!

with a chance of eyeballs

with a chance of eyeballs

Have you seen Sony’s latest attempt at swiping Pixar and Dreamworks from the best Feature animation studio’s crown?

Because of it’s really plain looking character design, “Cloudy with a chance of meatballs” might have flown under the radars of a lot of animation fans but if you go pass the designs, you will realise that the underdog is a new home run from the Culver city studio. Yes the story is not revolutionary but that movie is once again a great piece of entertainment served with amazing rendering, gorgeous visual effects, funny lines and wacky animation.

One of those wacky shots I am referring to is the Eyeball shot by the dock.

How lucky! David Anthony Gibson, the animator behind it: has decided to share with use some insights.

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