Bringing it all together.

A few things came up in class today that I think will really help streamline the story. The idea of trying something 3 times and then giving up can really work!

First Rosa is dancing to impress the plastic flamingos and Dee Dee copies her, interupts and things stop.

Start again. Rosa is dancing; DeeDee is copying (and really having a good time) and things come to a halt again.

The third time they're BOTH having a good time (perhaps I can do the rolling-around-on-the-neck move here) and the TWO of them knock the plastic flamingos over. They stop! Look at each other -- OMG what have we done? -- But when the music comes around again they realize they don't really care and start dancing again.

(Part of me KNOWS this has been done before either with Charlie Chaplin, The Marx Brothers or on the Carol Brunett show.)

I think I'll get some Silent films from Netflix. Buster Keaton and Chaplin. I think I'd like that type of exagerated gesture and expression - not to mention the timing.

NEXT big idea - using the same body rig and scripting the dance sequences. I THINK I can do this with the body, legs and wings. If I name all the joints according to the character, I can just do a search/replace. I'll have "ROSjnt01, ROSjnt02, ROSjnt03" and then find/replace to "DEEjnt01, DEEjnt02, DEEjnt03".

I'll test that this week. DeeDee might have a completely different rig for different scenes - more squash and stretchy - like the Flour Sack we used in Animation 1.

Very helpful class today, I appreciate all the time spent on my project. Next week I'll let someone else get a word in edgewise.