This project features a stylized design of President Obama giving a portion of his 2010 State of the Union Address. I wanted to give a Pixar-style character giving a speech to an audience. The video was compiled using After Effects and modeled using 3DS Max and ZBrush. 

A Note on the clip: I do not own the original audio clip used for this animation. 

Below is a screen shot of Obama with his rig and gizmos unhidden. The rig was set-up to use only forward kinematic (FK) rigging. I may in a later project construct a whole body with fully-integrated skeleton rig.

The facial movements used morph targets for the phonemes Obama uses in his speech. The facial animations were the most entertaining aspect of the project for me personally.