Caution: Animator Guy at work.

So, there is this 3 1/2 minute video that I animated and posted on YouTube last year. I named it My O7 Project. Since posting it, I've learned a few new tricks, became aware of a few new techniques and now I'm curious about how they would apply to that year old video. Here is the 14 second clip that I'm focusing on, today.

The woman dancing was supposed to be a caricature of Janet Jackson. It's close, but not a very good job. The face wasn't done well at all. The fingers are stiff. Her hair is the wrong shape. Wrong, wrong, wrong. The man at the keyboard was supposed to be music producer Jimmy Jam Harris. Again, I should have done better.

So, here's the plan. First; use a more refined armature underlying each character. This armature will control the fingers as well as the facial movements if necessary.

Second; rebuild each character to make each one a little more life-like. That includes the faces, the textures and the clothing.

Third; rework the poses and choreography. Although I like what I did in the first video, after looking over the original Janet Jackson video of which these moves were based on, I now believe I can work this better than that first animation.

Oh, did I mention that I already started the process? Here's how it looks thus far with only the Janet character.