{"id":3100,"date":"2011-10-04T13:54:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T21:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2011-10-04T13:54:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T21:54:11","slug":"take-video-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/04\/take-video-reference\/","title":{"rendered":"Take &#8211; video reference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While doing some research for my Character Design workshop I found that great acting moment in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hammer_Film_Productions\" target=\"_blank\">Hammer&#8217;s<\/a> 1960 adaptation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strange_Case_of_Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde\">1886 Scottish novel<\/a> where Dr Jekyll&#8217;s doctor friend start realising that the character standing before him is none other than his dear fellow.<\/p>\n<p>Ideally we want to find real life references but those are really difficult to find and we usually don&#8217;t have a video camera rolling when we experience those moments so that sequence could be a great one to refer to when animating &#8220;takes&#8221; or when we try to conveying thought process.<\/p>\n<p>Pay attention to how he relaxes the muscles around the eyes when in shock then contracts them with a subtle shift of the head as if to get closer and focus. Also notice the really interesting things he does with his lips, 10 then 12 seconds into it.<\/p>\n<p>Hit the link for a quicktime version as usual and find the full movie below. It is an interesting take on the original story and it features the great Christoper Lee as the doctor&#8217;s wife lover. The featured sequence takes place around 1h26 into the movie.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0mkemP1TuCw[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/videos\/AnimationMoustache_Take-The%20Two%20Faces%20of%20Dr.%20Jekyll%20(1960).mov\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3101\" title=\"Take_Jekyll\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2011\/10\/Take_Jekyll.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While doing some research for my Character Design workshop I found that great acting moment in the Hammer&#8217;s 1960 adaptation of the 1886 Scottish novel where Dr Jekyll&#8217;s doctor friend start realising that the character standing before him is none other than his dear fellow. Ideally we want to find real life references but those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,11,25],"tags":[61,256,719,785],"class_list":["post-3100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acting","category-animation","category-education","category-reference","tag-acting-2","tag-dr-jekyll","tag-take","tag-video-reference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}