Workshop: Breathing Animation
After the teacher’s explanation, I understood the main movement logic for creating a breathing animation. The head should follow the chest, and the chest should follow the COG movement. After that, smaller details can be added, such as the shoulders moving up and backward, the hands moving slightly upward, and the accessories following the body movement.
With this structure in mind, I started creating loop animation for each body part separately, and then added offset between them. I also combined the loop animation knowledge from last week to make the movement more organised and natural.
Through this process, I began to understand breathing animation as a connected full-body movement, not only chest motion.
Assignment: Dialogue Shot – Blocking
For this dialogue shot exercise, I chose the line:
“We can still stop them. We just have to combine our strength. We have to keep trying.”
In the first version, the teacher suggested rotating the camera around 30 degrees. This angle made facial animation easier to work with and helped show the character’s emotion more clearly.
During the process, I also needed to avoid mirrored poses to make the performance feel more natural. The teacher suggested pushing the facial curves further to create stronger expressions. I also added more variation to the eye shapes to improve emotional feeling.
Another important point was the mouth shape. I focused more on making the lip sync clearer and matching the mouth shapes more carefully to the dialogue.