desperate moment

August Competition Winner

Final Rating: 7.27. Finished: 1 out of 71 entries.
Next Animation

Animator: nideep

Description: i thought i'll go a little bit 'exaggerated realism' this time.(whatever that means,lol!). And this is your 'moment' to criticize me!!

Experience: nothing much.

Time taken: one week (at freetimes)

Comments:

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Andrew Bina:

Very Good!

C. J. Cow:

wow! this is absolutely amazing!

Marcos Borba Moreira:

liked the eyes :)

Paul Yan:

There's some really great poses in here. Her eyeline changes so it's hard to tell if she's talking to a specific person and I think some of the latter poses feel out of character, but this is brimming with entertainment value and appeal. Great work!

Christopher Sosa:

This is a great shot I really like your hands, there really organic. The facial animatoin and expression are great. Awesome Job!

Taylor Potts:

Good stuff!! You are definitely animating what she is thinking and feeling. Maybe push the COG' distance a little more to play her towards and away from 'the other character'.

Eric Huang:

Awesome! I love the feel of the whole thing. Great poses and facial expressions!

bruno hamzagic:

The acting its interesting, but I felt it a little robotic.

Chris Welsby:

thats great work. very nice

Mike Clark:

I know were not supposed to rate on lighting, but I really like what you did here. Very cool. As far as animation goes. Nice choice of poses! when she grabs her face....very nice and original. some of the movements are a little unnatural though, like the hand at the end sticks in the air, and her sobbing hits a little too hard...overall good stuff. Great acting choices!

Tom Law:

Her poses are excellent, expecially on around frame 140.

David Humphreys:

excellent work!

a bit vauderville but good nontheless

Pedro Lopes:

I really like this one. Love the sniff.

Kristoffer Clark:

Good stuff on the face :) I liked arms as well but i thought the gesture she did with them before she touched her face was a little strange.

Cameron D:

A bit over-acted, but that's about the only critique I have. I liked the lighting, the unusual character, and some of the gestures.

Israel Woolfolk:

Great facial animation. I love the way you animated the mouth and the eyes.

Tyler Phillips:

Really nice animation.

Cole Higgins:

really nice movement and acting in the beg. but I dont like her emotions in the end. They dont make sense. like frame 181 it looks like shes thiming about where she left her car keys and frame 227 it looks like shes non shalaunt. In the beg. though shes pretty emotional.

Michael Li:

Awesome animation indeed. Great lighting. Just not really sure about the over-dramatic acting, and a lack of focus. Who exactly is she talking to?

Aaron Clement:

I like the beginning. The last pose didn't feel sincere... didn't seem to make the rest quite as well... nice lighting and staging.

P Walters:

Very nice. The face is GREAT! Nice choices. The facial movements are awesome!

Yeray Díaz Díaz:

Really nice! The animation is amazing, a couple of movements are a little too exaggerated or don't fit with the clip but it's a great work!

Jamal D. Owens:

Wow!! This is great! Keep up the good work!! I like your choice of poses and the timing is straight on. Well done.

Ezra Allen:

Yeah this is bloody good, really nice detailed animation nice weight, great acting, maybe a tad overly melodramatic but still cool.

garvey harris:

sat here smiling because it was awsome and a pleasure to watch, couldn't find a fault

Oren Bentov:

great animation!, i think that there are too many poses in the start when she speak,and also in the end with the double hand gesture.
but overool looks great, love the gesture when shes about to cry, maybe could have been more emphasized.
great job!

Michael Richard:

Wow, really good arcs and personality. The only thing for me on this one is her emotional states changing so radically. From really sad to really pissed off. The shaking of the hands around 120 is awesome, good acting.

HariNarayan:

Superb !!

miles southan:

Wow, excellent work! Great poses, especially in the fingers. My only complaint is toward the end you have her getting angrier than the line read indicates I think. Especially around frame 179. Amazing work though.

Ramit Batra:

Great expression through eyes. i like the attitude you put in the character!

Jarred de Beer:

Very nice expression in the eyes!! There seem to be key moments where the lip sync is hard to follow and it detracts from her acting. Her left hand seemed to want to cover her face up most of the time, probably because of the camera angle and her forearms being close together for most of the movement.

Shahbaaz Shah:

Probably the best finger and facial poses so far, and very interesting acting choices. The rendering doesn't hurt either :)

Simon Bean:

Some of the facial expressions are gorgeous, but the poses let it down a little for me. This clip is so genuinely emotional, i don't think you can afford to ham up the acting. It needs to be subtler for me :)

Florent Perrin:

Spent a good time here!
Your acting choices are cool, the ambiance you've created is nice, the body mechanics work well. The work on eyes gives the characters an intersting bunch of life.
Like it! :)

Mike Courtney:

Nice hand gestures and movements. There a points where the eyebrows are popping.

Dan Dulberger:

Nice grimaces. Really entertaining facial animation. There is something about the hand flick at the very end I find odd. Too late or early maybe!?

Matt Garward:

I'm not sure what the gesture at "resist it" is... the waving hands in front of her face. Kinda threw me. The rest is nice, holding a couple of poses and working within them. The turn away and angry look on "I don't know when your moment was" is a bit extreme to me, and I'd imagine she would be looking down, not up like that. But the animation is really nice throughout.

Andy Salvo:

This is really quite beautiful. My only minor comment would be that the face gets a bit dark from f36-50. The fleshiness on the way in and out of the sniff is wonderful.

Matt Morris:

nice work with the lighting and rendering - animation's solid, though the pose around 178 feels a bit too disconnected and when she looks back round towards the end feels like she's looking above someones head, not at them.

Phillip Moon:

Just awesome. Great body and facial acting. Very natural.

Taber Dunipace:

I like this scene a lot! There are just a couple snags such as the missing anticipation before the arm swipe and some of the actions passing too quickly. Keep it up, this is a very inspiring attempt!

Christiaan Moleman:

The "always a moment" pose looks a bit theatrical to me. I think it's mostly the looking at the sky... The wiping tears away is nicely done, but I think the hand twisting before that looks strange... The fast move down with the right hand after that feels too fast and sudden. Her expression here (when she looks screen right) seems more "hang on a minute" than angry/sad/disappointed.

Bilal Ahmad:

good work man!

Phil:

I love this animation, the only problem is that her emotion in the audio doesn't come across enough in the animation. At the start it's there, but i think it turns a bit too cartoony when she says 'i don't know....' but it's still a lovely animated piece. Well done!

RazorX:

Great lighting, but boring overall.

Virgil Mihailescu:

I don't think it helps the audio very much, but I like that you've created an interesting context, and she has a little bit of character - the hands movement at "I can resist it" is cool. there are some great facial expressions going on too, and good looking poses. she could have had a more defined character maybe, defined by her gestures and expressions I mean. but anyway, overall, very nice stuff!

Alexis St-Laurent:

Nice animation on the face. I like the body language too!

Gregory Marlow:

Very good animation. Facial animation was a bit much though. Take it back a notch.

Josh Doohen:

woah!! bad ass animation, anyone got a tissue! great job!

breaking the balance:

is that britney?! very tight animation..

Paulo Clayton:

Lots of style! Acting very convincing. However some of the timing between the gestures and what's being said didn't quite line up naturally, i.e. head coming up around frames 55-70 and chin gesture at frames 90-110. Love the emotion, just not timed quite right. Excellent work!

Arbi Faridani:

amazing, love the hand poses!!

Micah Betts:

Excellent work! Although I think her final pose is a feels a little weak compared to her stronger pose just before it and her angered expression

Matt Johnson:

Really nice animation. The one tween hands to they eye seemed unnecessary, but the rest of it sold me. I really felt the attitude of the punk rocker.

Victor Wong:

Nice timing on the lip sync and gestures in general. Good acting skills shown here.

Henning Koczy:

Whew!! If I had to venture a crit. maybe the dismissive hand at 170 seems a little untrue, maybe too much, maybe missing another subtle layer of "feigning disaffection, but really, deep-down, still desperation".

Robert Tighe:

WOW I love how you've pushed this one! Really nice posing, The eyes are really well done. You should be proud. "I can resist it" is beautiful.

Srikanth:

Marvelous animation....

Daniel Harriman:

Gee this is good work! The only thing I could say is that some of your choices of action don't quite ring true with the dialogue. Eg: when she drops her hand, screws up eyebrows and turns her head from frame 170- this didn't seem to fit. But other than that its nice to see such good quality work in the comp!

Sean Graham:

I like this. Really nice graphical shapes in her eyes as well. Solid acting, strong composition. I might take out the second jut forward at the end at "one", it's a little distracting. Also, something about how she gets into her first pose is odd, not sure what it is. But that's about it. Cool stuff.