Flavio

Well, I’m finally done with my exposure sheets! Whew! It was a lot more work than I anticipated! My friend Alex asked me a few days ago to post some more Exposure Sheets and seeing as how I ain’t gots nuthin’ else to post today, I figured I would do just that. If you hate looking at sheets or are an old hat at this kinda schtuff disregard this post because you probably already know all this. If you think it’s interesting read on!

As I said in my other post on Exposure Sheets, I like to add drawings that I missed on the board and I have to say that I missed a lot in Flavio’s board. I was surprised to see how long it took for him to say things. I guess it’s because of all the “a’s” after each word but I found I had scads of time to add subtle acting and little nuances for each scene. Just nods and tilts of the head plus places where I could get Flavio to use his hands as a good Italian goat should.

Plus when I originally did the board I didn’t know how Mr. frank or Bossman would sound so I didn’t do many poses for them. this was my chance to polish it up as well.

This time around you will notice in the center of the page, there are some red letters in a column, which is the “Mouth Charts exposures”. Last post I hadn’t had a chance to do expose the dialog yet. For those uninitiated, we use these to help the overseas studios (who usually do not speak English) how the mouth should look for each word.

It’s funny but most overseas studios don’t even animate to a soundtrack! They don’t listen to the dialog because there’s really no point. I know it wouldn’t help me much with animation if I had to listen to a Chinese soundtrack. Maybe a bit for inflections etc. but in the end I’d probably get confused.

Even more of a reason to do detailed exposure sheets because if you think they’ll hear that great little “sigh” that your guy does in the soundtrack… it ain;’t gonna happen unless your director exposes it on the sheets.

In my case I created three different sets of mouth charts, one for Happy expressions, one for Sad expressions and one for Freaked Out expressions.
Anyway, here’s some more sheets to look at if you like…