For this shot, I wanted to capture a slice of life from a root emotion that a lot of people could relate to, that root emotion being doubt. I settled on this emotion being the center of how this project would be structured and went from there, coming up with other traits like, "he overthinks things", "he contradicts himself", and "he backtracks". I knew the mood and structure of how the scene was going to work, so I decided to record my own dialogue and came up with the line "Hey, so I was just wondering if you wanted to get some coffee... or something...".  I drew my thumbnails afterward, a lot more than previously, in order to truly understand what key poses my character needed to hit in the scene. From there, I moved onto blocking in Maya, understanding my keys, putting in my breakdowns, and cleaning it all up in spline.

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As a side note, the character's face was really fun to play with. I got to work with the more specific controls in his eyes and tried to plus my work graphically so that each pose looks as appealing as possible.