Case study
The Funeral Story
The Funeral Story
These were two unsuccessful acting tests using Metahuman Animator.
I wanted to try to do a longer scene. I decided to tell a story to the camera and act it out.
I wasn’t happy with either version. Something to keep in mind for the future is that when you’re trying to act with a motion capture suit, all the regular rules of filmmaking still apply. You need to know where the camera is (or will be) and act to the camera. In both takes I’m just sort of flailing around, not keeping my eye-lines constant, looking down too often, my performance is all over the place.
Still, very much blown away by MHA.
I didn’t realize until after I rendered it out that I moved the camera through another character’s head. Ooops.