From the course: Character Animation: Dialogue

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Blocking out the initial poses

Blocking out the initial poses

From the course: Character Animation: Dialogue

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Blocking out the initial poses

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I've read my dialogue track, and I've listened to it a few times. And now I have a rough idea as to where I want my character to go. So now I need to start blocking out my shot. Now I'm going to block this out starting with the body, and then moving onto the face. So, at this point I really just want to get the body moving in sync with the dialogue, and then I can fill in the rest. So again, our dialogue is- >> Oh, I don't know, will there be pie? >> So we have basically two emotions here. We have a down emotion, where she says, oh, I don't know. And then her mood changes when she says, will there be pie? So let's go ahead and start off with the initial pose. Now as the dialogue starts, she's actually going to change emotion. She's going to go from probably a neutral expression to a down or sad expression when she says, oh, I don't know. So I need to get my initial pose first. So when the camera first hits this character I want her to be a little bit neutral, and I want her to be…

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