Larry Facial Expression Tests

These are some facial expressions I did on Larry's rig a few weeks back.

At this point I've been animating for the past couple of weeks, which was a little over schedule, by 2 weeks or so.

 Pre production was an incredibly time consuming, and frustrating, though I learned so much in the process, and now I'm back to animating, which is so much more fun. 

Man Rig Dialog Test

This is a quick dialog test I did on the man rig a couple of months ago after I re-rigged him.

I originally wasn't going to have a mouth on the character, but after I decided to re rig the character because I wasn't happy with the joint placement, I figured I might as well.

I wanted to get the same exaggerated look that I got with Larry's mouth, but for this one I created a blendshapes to completely pull away each side of the mouth to create the empty space where you would normally have the cheek on the other side.