Temptation

Final Rating: 4.35. Finished: 38 out of 71 entries.
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Animator: Aaron Clement

Description: A girl has great temptation to eat the ice cream sunday but is
trying here best to resist.

Experience: 3 years

Time taken: about 25 hrs

Comments:

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Justin Weg:

Wasn't sure where she was looking throughout. Didn't know who she was talking to.

Paul Yan:

It's a little hard to understand the context of the situation. Did someone place it in front of her to eat - tempting her? Or did she order it but now have regret? Who is she glaring at in the end? Why is she holding a spoon if she doesn't want it? I think answering some of those questions may narrow down some acting decisions before you get to blocking in order to make this short clip feel believable and grounded to context.

David Atkins:

acting is not being directed to the ice cream enough. leaves me feeling ambiguous..

Alonso Soriano:

Since she doesn't identify the listener until the very end I though she was talking to herself trying to stay on her diet :P I like the bouncy body in the beginning, and the thrust on the final line, head rolling back I don't like as much, and the bouncing body seems to have lost focus as she gets into her lines.

Chris Welsby:

some nice stuff in there. i think the timing of the move at the end when she says "I bet" is a bit late. The thrust of the heaad should emphasise the word bet. nice work in there tho

Eric Huang:

I like the situation! :)

bruno hamzagic:

I felt a little confusion with who she was acting. At the final of the piece seems that there are some one else beyond the icecream, but in the beginning, looks like that her is talking with the icecream.

David Ruzicka:

Why does she looks away at the end?

Francisco Martinez:

Too much rocking. The symmetry in the hands banging on the table seemed distracting. The eye contact at the end threw me off. Was she looking at another table or open space?

Cole Higgins:

its wierd I dont know why shes moving like that. Not really sure you spent enough time thinking about what shes thinking. Animate from the inside out not to the dialogue.

Tyler Phillips:

I think she could interact with the ice cream by pulling it towards her or pushing it away. Just needs some polishing.

Aaron Clement:

This is mine... no comment.

David Humphreys:

Some good arcs in there and your sync is good.

But the head nodding on every beat is a bit much, if you toned that down a little you'd do better.

And who is she talking to? its odd that she makes no reference in that direction up until the end.

garvey harris:

if she was meant to be resisting the ice cream then the acting was not suggestive enough to convey this - yer - excellentn use of the prop - when I used to go to acting classes a suggestion I made that made a lot of sense was that if you were on a bus or a in car and passing by and saw the character acting out the part, without hearing what was being said, how much of the expression and body language tells you what is going on?

I think the key here is resisting, and accusing the other character that they also had a moment of weakness, so far I'm not seeing that being expressed enough

Ezra Allen:

theres a bit of an odd head movement around 150
and the movements at the strt there are a bit repetative.

Florent Perrin:

Some good intentions, evocating a child in certain poses. Lacks a lot of planning, and polishing, though. keep ip up!

Mike Courtney:

Arm goes through the table at end. Hands become anchors at a point in the animation.

miles southan:

The ending accusation is nice but it's weird that she's not addressing that off screen person at all before that point. I think there could have been one or two hand gestures instead of accenting so much with the rocking back and forth. Also, dont forget to overlap the upper body, head and neck when you do that rocking.

Simon Bean:

Like the hands banging table. Who's she talking to?? Its unclear. Good effort

Matt Garward:

The lipsync needs some work, her mouth seemed puppet-y. What stood out the most to me was that I had no idea she was talking to someone off screen-right until the end. I thought she was talking to the ice-cream until those last few words. She probably needed at least a glance at the person she's addressing in the earlier section, or more than a glance. Maybe start her rant looking at them, and look away into her own world at "always". But I was really thrown. :) Watch out for twining on the hands throughout. The first action seems childish, and while it could work for that kind of speech, I'm not sure it did. The animation and expressions are good, but make sure we know who she's talking at. :)

Victor Wong:

Good weight on the arms on the table. The timing of the head gestures might be a little off.

Virgil Mihailescu:

yet again... is she talking about her moment? this situation here makes more sense if she'd be talking about her moment. but she's not. you did make it clear that she's not, but then the icecream in front of her (and the fact that she looks at it and it's not just a random prop) doesn't fit the situation.

Alexis St-Laurent:

Just needs to make sure the same poses don't repeat too much. In the first part, she looks like she does the same movement two or three times...

Gregory Marlow:

good emotion

Jeranimo:

Looks stiff, especially the neck and the head area. They move like puppet.

Taber Dunipace:

The animation quality is ok here but the acting choices are difficult to watch. She bounces around in a giddy way, then rocks back and forth, and then appears to return to acting like a human being at the end. The animation could use better observance of principals and also more carefullly planned acting.

Matt Johnson:

eye movement threw me off at the end. Thought she was talking to the ice cream at first.

Max Herzfeld:

It's pretty good but there could be more to it.

Work on showing conflicting desires and guilt.
Keep the arms out of the table.:)

The pounding on the table was well done.

Good work,
Max

Bilal Ahmad:

nice effort!

Christiaan Moleman:

I think the lean in on "was one" might be a bit big.