Here is a quick facial acting exercise I did with my puppet!
This was really fun to do and was a little easier considering I had the keys figured out in 2D! I am quite happy with how it turned out but I am going to give it another go purely because I destroyed my puppets hands in the process!!
The cup (also made of clay) turned out to be too heavy for his poor wrist and his wrists would keep on falling off and I ultimately had to stick a pin through the cup and into his body to be able to shoot the rest of my animation.
I also realised after getting some amazing feedback from Ko and Christina, that his eyebrows should probably be more exaggerated purely because it is a facial acting exercise and it probably looked much too similar to the body acting one.
Ko had a great idea to put the sequence into either TV Paint or Photoshop and then take out his eyebrows and replace them with 2D ones! That way I’d be mixing two mediums together! I love that idea and am looking forward to experimenting with it soon 😀
Christina also had this wonderful idea of reshooting it with the puppet using both his hands to lift the cup and then when he reacts to his drink maybe one arm could let go/ alternately just use both his hands to push the cup away from his body! She also said that it might be a good idea to straighten out the arm completely when he rejects his drink and that way it would be far more effective 😀
I also had the idea of animating the cup solely in 2D and that way I’d have the puppet in a safe place to be able to reuse it for my lip sync exercise!