Rebel Beat

I recently saw the Goo Goo Dolls in concert so I've been listening to all their albums nonstop since then.  Today's blog title is one of my favorite songs off their new album "Magnetic".

In other news, I recently finished the first pass of facial animation on my two person dialogue.  I always tend to dislike my facial animation while I'm doing it, but once I let it sit for a night and come back to it the next day I realize it's actually not that terrible at all!  I also tend to over complicate facial animation, so I've been working on getting the biggest bang for my buck. Incorporating facial animation has been a challenge for me, especially when there's no dialogue involved and I'm strictly conveying emotion, so this has been a great exercise for me and I'm pretty pleased with it thus far!  In addition, I keep forgetting to add costumes to my dang characters!  It might be too late for this animation, but I'm definitely going to figure it out initially on my next animation.  Enjoy!


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