Sad Eva

Final Rating: 3.32. Finished: 63 out of 71 entries.
Previous Animation
Next Animation

Animator: David Ruzicka

Description: It was a nice challenge. I learned quite a bit. Thank you for the contest!

Experience: 6 months

Time taken: 10 hours

Comments:

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Andrew Bina:

A bit stiff.

bruno hamzagic:

I missed energy and felt everything a little robotic.

Nathaniel Villanueva:

it looks like youre going for more subtle movement and thats great, but everything just looks way too stiff. maybe slouch the body more, push the facial expression.

Cole Higgins:

need to have some emotion in the eyes and face. What is she thinking.

Tyler Phillips:

Nice lip sync. I think the torso could turn a little now and then. Also, it would be nice to see more variation in the hands.

Eric Scheur:

I really like how subtle and subdued you're keeping things! It makes it feel so intimate, and I think that's a lot of what this dialogue is about...

But I also hear a frantic quality in her voice that I'm not really getting in the animation. Try to push your poses further, to really get an idea of the mish-mash of feelings going on behind this character's eyes. There's desperation there, and we should feel it when we watch her.

Also, be careful of hitting too many facial poses too close together... You go from 246 to a new face on 255 to another one on 280. This feels like a bit much to me... Like maybe there should just be one facial pose that really gets at what she's expressing at that moment.

I see a lot of potential here, though, and I look forward to seeing your future work!

Rob:

its good but i get the feeling your playing it a bit safe try to push it a bit next time. just go for it

Aaron Clement:

Move the body more. Feels very robotic.

Yeray Díaz Díaz:

Needs a lot more movement. He/she barely moves.

David Humphreys:

get some movement in the shoulders, it feels very rigid, your sync is good and clear but your work is really lacking in overlapping motion.

an example of this is on frame 204 when the left arm comes up, it stops dead and then comes right down.

Dan Dulberger:

Nice lipsynch. Unfortunately the rest was abit too stiff.

garvey harris:

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:

Not bad but theres not much going on, lip synch is working well.

Chris Sutherland:

Great lip sync but needs more emotive poses

Mark Dickie:

The lip sync is very nice here, but I think the acting needs a lot more improvement. Could use stronger exaggeration.

Simon Bean:

he he , that character gave me a fright when the screen loaded! Wouldn't like to bump into her in a dark alley ;) Lovely expressive lip-sync. Hardly any acting showing through the body movements tho. Try to act this out in a mirror keeping so still and make it look convincing- Soon as arms freeze in a hold liek that, the acting falls flat. Not really enough emotion in the face for me. Hope this helps ;) Good effort

Mike Courtney:

Good start. The hands are a bit static. The left hand coming up and down at the end is mechanical in motion and needs a better arc.

Renzo Biffa E.:

the lipsync was so good, but the expresions of her face and body wasn’t good enought.

Victor Wong:

Excellent lip sync. Maybe a stronger gesture is needed for the sob.

Felix:

aua!

Phillip Moon:

Needs more work with the eyes, meaning that they need to look away, up down, whatever, to work with the lines.

Sean Graham:

Really reserved acting here, feels like she's not nearly as desperate in her acting as she is in the voice. Makes it feel kind of disjointed. I do like the gesture choices, and lip sych and facial animation's pretty good. But this character needs to be pushed more and loosened up.

Taber Dunipace:

We need to see some body language here. The facial shapes are pretty bland also so push those more next time. Keep up the practice and don't forget the animation principals!

Alexis St-Laurent:

The lip sync looks good, but the body is almost not moving... it lacks expression

Michael Richard:

Act it out and try to find the key poses that make up the scene. The head also hardly moves.

Gregory Marlow:

a little stiff

Jeranimo:

Great to see the wooden puppet feel! ;)

Henning Koczy:

work with the eyes, follow with the head... more detail.

Bilal Ahmad:

nice effort!