Remember all the myths you created as a kid, all the stories you relived and the timeless legends you played a part in? What’s a more mythic object than cardboard? When Ravie Co announced “Mythic” as prompt for their third animation challenge, my mind went so many places at once as I contemplated stories like the legend of King Arthur or perhaps an old Norse myth. The biggest pull, however, was Greece. I had spent an amazing vacation there years ago and the art and architecture, the stories and culture, all still hang with me.
Soon enough, with the timeless escapades of the Greek gods in mind, I began grounding myself a bit more. I thought to my own childhood and how mythic it seemed years ago. My parents told me they could just give me a cardboard box instead of a gift and I’d be happy. That story seemed almost mythic to me, and it was that feeling I settled on portraying.
I used Joysticks N Sliders again for Pandora’s facial rig. I set things up very similarly to my work on Glint, though I pushed the turn a bit further this time and added a tongue control, because why not! I had to separately rig the laurel leaf to disappear when the controls hit a certain angle, and manually fill in a lot of her hair. Unfortunately, I’m not 100% satisfied with how her hair morphing came out, but once things were ready to go I couldn’t really turn back.
Once I had things working, I duplicated my control comp for seven different facial animation compositions throughout.
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