This is my third attempt at filming the facial acting exercise 😀 I am really happy with this attempt and I finally submitted it for assessment!
I was planning on mixing mediums for this exercise and animating the cup in 2D. I was inspired by Nelly Michenaud’s work (an MACA alumni) and also my tutor Ko said it would be nice to experiment with both mediums. Unfortunately though it didn’t work out! 🙁 As you can see below, I animated the puppet solely without the cup. The acting was fine, but since I didn’t have the cup in his hand I couldn’t figure out the hand movement and it came out too jerky! I did try drawing the cup in TV Paint but it was an absolute mess, so I decided to leave this for later and to just go ahead with the stop motion cup. I do quite like the cup in stop motion, because it has a more rustic feel to it! I just think I need a little bit more time and practise to figure out how to mix stop motion and 2D 🙂