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: 2h 31m
Format: HD 1280x720
In-Ah Mellor
Character Animator
In-Ah Mellor was born in Duesseldorf, Germany, and studied animation in high school before earning a two-year higher diploma in 2D character animation from the Lycée Technique des Arts et Métiers in Luxembourg. She went on to complete a 3D animation degree at GOBELINS, followed by a postgraduate year at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.
During her career in VFX and animation, In-Ah has worked on feature films for Framestore (including Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), Guerilla Games (facial animation R&D on Killzone 2), Double Negative (Iron Man 2 and Paul), and Sony Pictures Imageworks (Lead 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 on Guardians of the Galaxy and Goosebumps, later teaching character animation at Vancouver Institute of Media Arts, before founding Deadbird Animation Ltd, where she currently works as an artist and illustrator.
