I like <Better Call Saul> pretty much, so I chose one line from Jimmy who is the main character of <Better Call Saul>. I really appreciated his performance in this play, as he took the character of Saul from a hesitant start to a disillusioned end.
Here is the line, speak out by him with strong incredible emotions. Besides through his body language, he exports his strong confidence to the audience.
In order to recreate Bob Odenkirk’s facial expressions as closely as possible, I imported the film into syncsketch for a preliminary analysis of the movement curves.
I found Bob Odenkirk’s emotions in this performance ranged from questioning and slightly angry to dismissive and confident. As a result, his facial expressions changed relatively widely in the first half and less in the second half, but with his face slightly uplifted and looking down at the audience, showing his confidence.
I then made the facial expressions in maya against the drawing on syncsketch. Here is the work.
I think overall it didn’t look as good as I would have liked, I was thinking maybe because the limbs and head movements weren’t added and the overall look wasn’t very coordinated. Also due to the source video, the sound and picture didn’t match up, maybe 1 or 2 seconds slower. I’ll try to fix that later on.