Got my week 2 eCritique back last night, and I have to say, my mentor, Jason Taylor, gives awesome feedback. He had a bunch of ideas for things I could try out in order to improve my shot, and he has a geat way of explaining things.
Anyway, here is the assignment I delivered last week:
I spendt most of my time last week trying to improve the body mechanics of the shot, and to get rid of large amounts of twinning. So I haven’t gotten around to doing large amounts of actual polish yet, but I will get to that as soon as I have gone through and fixed all of the notes that Jason had.
So my job for this week is to make sure the devil character hits all his acting beats. For example adding a small change in the pose when he says “releasing me…”. Do some more acting with his head, don’t just have him looking forward to whole time, break it up a little.
The part where he brings his arms behind his back is a bit stiff. Have him lean forward, and then straighten up. Generally make the body mechanics even better is what I guess is what I’m trying to say, and thanks to Jason I have a pretty good idea of what needs to be done.
Over all I’m very excited about working on this shot again, which is strange because at the end of class 5 I was not happy with it at all, and I was completely stuck. But now I’m really looking forward to working on it some more.