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This week's clip is from Airplane (Abrahams, 1980), with one of the many hilarious lines from that movie.

I wanted to practice more on facial animations, so I decided on a clip that was short and precise that was easy to work on, but ended up being a bit more difficult since the actor says his syllables quite fast.

I contorded and twisted his jaw to over express his words, as well as pulling his face muscles around his mouth to make his theet more visible. Still, I feel the lip synch could use a lot more work to more visibly emphasise each word, but it may not come across well anyway since the syllables comes quite fast as previously mentioned.

What I also did was put more effort into making the character move his entire body, and not just the arm and head. This I feel helped a lot to feel the character is a lot more vivid and alive, and to make it more belivable that he is in obvious distress about the creature he is currently holding in his hands. I didn't use any graph editor in this animation, so it's all just plain keyframing.

Rigs

Alex: http://vimeo.com/55507904
Rexxy: http://animationbuffet.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/rexxy.html