It’s both surprising and satisfying when months of planning and experimentation pay off in the form of a successful 13 second animation. After learning from countless mistakes, we may finally have a production process that will work for the final episode. Amazingly, it’s easier to list the things that went right this time around, rather than what we need to learn from. It’s in widescreen 1080p, the lighting looks good, the animations are relatively interesting and believable, the mouths match the words and head movements, and the picture quality and camera work have a relatively professional feel. Life is good at the Vienna House.
Vegas has some great tools for animating mouths using keyframes and matching the waveform of the audio track. We don’t, however, have the computing horsepower to preview our animations at full 1080p, so we’ll need to solve some technical issues there.
Next week, we’ll attempt to make some lounge furnishings (sink, refrigerator, sofa) and some mounting rigs for the (Christmas) lights. Until then, you can also check out this flythrough of the set for the filming of “Meet Rufus.”
-Mike