Here’s the reblocked dialogue shot:
We also had to do a hand pose that would convey anger:
Michelle thought there wasn’t enough tension in the fingers and I’d agree, however I have no real idea about how to achieve that! It’s not helped by the fact that the rig in the hands is awful and we can’t edit the skinning. Just trying to get a pose that didn’t look really bad was tough enough!
This is a back-dated post, so apologies for not going into too much detail about what’s going on here! This re-block is the very last moment before I splined the animation:
And here it is splined. It’s OK but I spent a very long time re-blocking, so I didn’t get a lot of time to clean the curves:
Rather than spline out my shot this week, I concentrated on adding loads of keys and inbetweens to really nail down what’s happening. That’s the first version! Since there is so much data now, I thought I’d literally just hit the ‘spline’ button on all the curves and see what happens! That’s the second version. I think it’s working OK, despite a few instances of gimbal and a dodgy FK/IK switch that I’ll sort out next week.
Thanks to Karl for the suggestion to raise Stewie up at the end to really emphasise the exhaustive collapse. Great idea!