Performance & Acting
Creating Believable Characters with In-Ah Roediger
Description
In this lecture and demonstration, In-Ah Roediger shares a step-by-step walkthrough of the process of working on a short animation that requires lipsync. She covers all the basics, from shot planning and getting your reference material together, to polishing your curves and animation in order to give it that extra push. This is an effective example of how one would approach a shot in a studio environment that is running a full feature production. In-Ah provides hands on advice from years of working on animated features and VFX shows, and illustrates her animation workflow in full detail. Assuming a basic knowledge of animating in Maya, this title will help you further your skills to a professional level and get those acting performances and lipsync shots to feel spot on.
Duration: 151 minutes
Format: HD 1280x720
In-Ah Mellor
Character Animator
Born in Duesseldorf, Germany, In-Ah studied animation in high school and then went on to earn a two-year higher diploma in 2D character animation from the Lycée Technique des Arts et Métiers in Luxembourg. In-Ah completed a 3D animation degree from GOBELINS, which led to a postgraduate year at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg. During her career in VFX and animation, she has worked on features for Framestore (Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire, The Tale of Despereaux and Where the Wild Things Are), Double Negative (Iron Man 2 and Paul), freelance commercial work, a year at Guerilla Games in Amsterdam (Killzone 2) and Sony Pictures Imageworks in Vancouver (senior animator on The Smurfs, Hotel Transylvania and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2; and supervising animator on Oz the Great and Powerful). After finishing work on The Amazing Spider-Man 2, she joined MPC to work onGuardians of the Galaxy.
