Animating

When animating my workflow began as thus, I would load the audio file into the frame viewer and listen to it a few times to get a feel for the timing of certain actions in my head, I would also refer to the dope sheet for this. I would then proceed and block out the basic movements for my rigs throughout the animation, making sure that the major key frames were in place. I then continued to animate in passes adding greater and greater flow and detail to each movement, making them more natural and flowing.

I did this firstly for the officer character as he was the 'lead' in this scene, dictating its pace and determining the Private's reactions, so it was easier to animate him first and then animate the private in passes allowing the timing of the officers actions to dictate the privates reactions. Aside from order, the animating process for both characters was much the same and it involved referencing many time to the reference material collected, especially on how the arms moved when the officer would bring his arms out from behind his back or for how his feet would move when he turns around.