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Animating Dialogue!

Week of Nov 29th 2020

I was really excited for this week's assingment! I've been meaning to try my hand at animating dialogue because I grew up watching a lot of those "animated storytime" videos or video comics on Youtube, so it made me excited to do what I thought was so cool as a kid.  I loved Domics on Youtube the most, and I even referred back to his videos for some help with this assignment!  I eventually got caught in a clickhole when I was looking back at his  channel and was amazed at the crazy amount of work he put out over all these years! I used to think that he posted videos too slow when I was a impatient, short-attentioned-spanned kid, but it makes so much sense as to why he took so long to post.  DIALOGUE IS HARD.  I never really thought about how much the human mouth moved before this and my mind is blown.  The amount of hours I spent making faces to myself trying to figure out how the letter "h" should be animated should've given me lock jaw.  Needless to say though this project still was fun, even if my mouth is hurting now.

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 I used some of my OC's again, Donny, Mina, and Vee.  I used them in a couple other projects for this class, but this is the first they're all featured together in the same video!  This is the final grade for our class so I figured I should include them all because I love them so much and feel bad for leaving them out in other projects.  I made a couple of adjustments from my first draft to get to this WIP.  Originally, Mina was pretty stationary, but in this version I added lip synching and put her on some pegs so she'd be animated when she appears on screen.  For Vee I delayed her reaction time to Donny's call a bit so the gag lands a bit harder.  And for Donny he kinda stayed the same in both drafts.  I definitely want to fully clean up this project specifically though because it was so fun, but that'll have to wait.  I pulled an all nighter to finish this before it was due and I need a well needed break lol. 

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