Thumbnails for Pantomime Animation



Today's task was to think about a story involving a phone call that could be told by a miming character. The challenge here is to tell the audience what the call is about without a dialogue. After a good few minutes of intense thinking I decide I would go for a 'love call' between a couple and so I began thumb nailing my idea, the next step would be to get feedback and hopefully start blocking the animation in Maya.

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