The final stages of animating my character was showing him watching the TV. To do so, I then used a complete biped once more, and positioned his torso and arms to give the impression of him relaxing on the back of the sofa. I then used keyframes to animate two slightly different scenes:
1) The first consists of him appearing to watch the screen, tilting his head as he observes the video with curiosity.
2) The second of him waving at the screen - this was initially meant to be him waving at the characters on-screen, although with the camera angle it gives the impression that maybe he is waving at the viewer. Either way works however, and gives a nice result.
I animated these scenes by keeping the biped positioned behind the sofa, using auto-key to manipulate parts of his arm and head to move along with the timeline.
After this had been done, I researched into how to apply a video to the TV. After a little searching, the method I found to work was to create a .tga (Targa) sequence. To do so, I took a few clips of a cartoon, and edited parts together within movie editing software.
Once this was created, I used a programme called VirtualDub to convert the file to a .tga sequence. I then applied the sequence to a plane that acted as the television screen, and recorded a few hundred frames of a still shot of the screen, showing the video playing on it. I did initially have some trouble with this - but this was due to my own error at unnecessarily altering a value I didnt need to, whilst working out how to use video within 3D max.
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