Lipsyncing with a theme. For this, we as a class had to decide on a theme that we’d like to work with and collectively we came upon the idea of animating Vines (seven-second videos from the site Vine that was big in pop culture about a decade ago). The audio I picked was the “Lipstick In My Valentino White Bag” vine.
This time I wanted to exaggerate a little more on the character designs and move a little outside my comfort zone.
The designs:
The first draft:
The final animation:
Reflections: By the time I arrived at this assignment (the last one of the term) I could feel the start of burnout from my uneven pacing. Though there were animation-based revelations I had, one of the biggest things I learned from this exercise was to pace myself and take breaks. I tried to work smarter instead of harder and tried to achieve the same end results considering as this was only a rough animation. My favourite part of this exercise was trying to step out of my comfort zone a little with the style and adding in the smaller details like the drink swirling in the cup or the slight jump of the Valentino bag when the character bangs her hands on the table. I realized that the finer details in storytelling bring me a lot of joy.