Strike A Pose-Exhaustion

This study task provides an opportunity to practice the use of Maya and also how to show emotion and feelings through the characters using different poses, textures and lighting. I have chosen exhaustion to work on. I found that it is hard to act exhaustion and I thought I have really obvious facial expression and gestures but there are nothing looking exhausting in the photo. This is when I noticed acting is not as easy as thought it would be. Perhaps it needs to be exaggerated and be dramatic when reference so as to aid the translation of feelings from characters.

I was imaging sweating and put the weight on one leg so it looks kind of like tired and have no motivation. Apparently the gestures need to be exaggerated in Maya.

I really like rotating the joins and transfer the pose of mine onto the character and I make it knee down in order to show more tiredness. The notes I took during the induction helps a lot when referring to the steps and buttons but asking Matt is the most efficient way to solve the problem. I think there is no problem when posing the character and I might improve it by doing the exact same pose so as to take reference and make it more realistic.

I am giving it a right above head lighting just like a stage light because I thought it could show the dramatic effect and specify the exhausting moment of the character. To able to see its face, I create another dim light from below to increase the visibility of its expression. Matt taught me how to reduce the shadow of a spot light so that it is possible to have single direction shadow under two diverse light sources.

I like the close up of the character because it looks very exhausted and the lighting helps telling the story. 

I had a little played around with lighting after the first trial, I put a light source right at the back of the character and hoping to get only the silhouette of it.

I really like this effect Although this is not suitable for this pose because the facial expression is unseen. It might be suitable for sad or significant poses that do not rely on face to show emotion, the back light outlines the character beautifully with a hint of sadness. I want to use this method for a disappoint character.