A Moment

Final Rating: 3.79. Finished: 49 out of 71 entries.
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Animator: Traci Plagmann

Description: I did this in my spare time the last few weeks. I wish I would have had a little more spare time to do all the nice little polish and stuff but hopefully next time!

Experience: I've yet to land an animation job but I'm hoping to someday soon!

Time taken: 35 hours

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Andrew Bina:

Needs work

David Atkins:

need more enthusiam.. good start

C. J. Cow:

maybe if the guy is drunk and sleeping you could add in some subtle breathing so he doesnt look dead

David Humphreys:

Feels a little stiff

And your last pose just kinda freezes, good stuff other than that.

Kristoffer Clark:

The facial animation is good, but more gestures would add to it

Cole Higgins:

I dont feel the emotion in her eyes. I cant see what shes thinking.

Tyler Phillips:

I think it needs some more work. Nice job though.

Mark Dickie:

Nice effort, though I think it could be taken a lot further. The lip syncing needs some work, and the acting needs to be stronger. This would look much better I think with just one or two stronger poses in there. Good work though, keep at it!

Aaron Clement:

Too static... Move things around. You need more texture to make this more interesting to watch. Give it faster beats and slower ones to make it more pleasing to the eye. Good staging.

garvey harris:

acting should've and could've been better

Eric Scheur:

I love the staging ad interpretation of the audio you have here! :) Love it! I think there's a lot of really nice acting choices here, and you could work on this to polish it up into something really special. :)

One thing that catches my eye is the way the scene starts... It's almost as if she's waiting for the camera to be turned on so she can begin to act. It might be better to start her in the middle of an acting.... like the pose you have at 15. Take that pose and push it a little further (see what kind of curve you can get out of her spine), and I think that would be a really nice place to start.

Overall, her spine feels a little stiff--play around with it to get some really exaggerated curves that can help you play into the pose and really loosen her up. :)

I love the little push-up and then settle down on "Do this"... great subtlety there!

I also really like the way that she ends up delivering her last bit with the body facing away from the guy... But it feels a little like she's just standing there, instead of getting ready to leave, or even just turning away from him because she's disgusted by him. Figuring out which action you'd like to go for could really help strengthen this part, and then you can push for it--whether it's an anticipation as she gets ready to storm out on him, or if it's a simple weight shift as she plants her foot and hip when she turns away, ashamed of this guy.

Very nice job, overall... just push things a little further. :)

Ezra Allen:

nice set up. Needs more work on the animation though, bit more effort on the lip synch, also the bottle stops to abuptly.

Jarred de Beer:

Her eyes don't seem to reflect the emotion coming through in her voice, her body seems a little shy of expression too. The lip sync is nice!

Mike Courtney:

Lip-sync not there yet. When bottle is released, it should have fallen over at that angle. Body becomes almost static when turned to the side.

Simon Bean:

The bishop rig's got potential for so much emotion, I don't think you perhaps pushed it far enough here. "Always a moment" is the emotional climax of the clip, the face should reflect that. Hope that helps :)

Eric Kramp:

seems pretty stiff, the level of emotion in the voice doesn't seem to be shown in the character.

Matt Morris:

Might be clearer to start with her holding the bottle. Feels like you need to emphasise the beat change at the end.

Taber Dunipace:

The totally dispassionate face does not work with this voice. Acting is lacking in this scene but the animation is fair.

Sean Graham:

This one looks like it just needed more time. Getting there!

Gregory Marlow:

not too bad

Micah Betts:

Could use at least a little movement in the guy to show that he's still conscious...if he is.

Victor Wong:

The timing of the gesture immediately after the sob could be quickened, but apart from that the timing of the gestures and the lip sync works well. Some more work may be needed on emphasizing weight when the hands are on the table.

Max Herzfeld:

Nice job getting the other character and all those bottle in the shot, making the story clear.
However this looks like it's still in the layout stage, with basic movments and lip sync.
It does show potential though.

Keep it up,
Max

Robert Tighe:

Nice work. For me, it just needs to be pushed further. Break up the body more too. Maybe the secondary character can at least breathe or blink so we know he's not dead.

Bilal Ahmad:

nice effort!