What If…? S03 E01 - What if… The Hulk fought the Mech Avengers?
BRIeF…
It was nice to animate a few shots of the mechs, but it was mostly acting when I was working on this.
Fun fact, before Mark Ruffalo was brought into voicing Bruce Banner in this episode, there was another voice actor who I recognised as the voice of Odin from the ‘What If… Hela found the Ten Rings?’ episode. The animators on this episode had two favourite lines he said. They were ‘…Great Boat Man' cause of how high he sounded and ‘A LiViNg FoRcE oF dEsTrUcTiOn‘ cause of the amount of voice cracks.
What worked?
For this shot in particular, since it was mostly going to be covered with 2dfx anyway. I used reference to speed up general posing on Bruce.
Since we didn’t have a green laser asset to help the 2d artist with timing of when the beams come in, I ended up using the Destroyer laser from the Season 2 1602 episode to help.
What didn’t worked?
I’ve noticed a few of my acting shots have been altered or just simply removed in its entirety. Around the very end of the episode, there was a small sequence of shots of Sarah (Sam’s sister) on the boat and moving some boxes around. And probably due to pacing or Marvel felt like it was not necessary in the last minutes removed it.
What to improve?
While animating the mechs in this episodes, its taught me that inorder to convey the heaviness of a character, they tend to be more slower the more larger they are. This is something I would like to improve on the next time I need to animate a large or heavy character.
