Merry Christmas Mrs. Munchnik!

Final Rating: 3.54. Finished: 44 out of 63 entries.
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Animator: Gemma Quill

Description: An awkward reunion between Mrs. Munchnik and her next door neighbour when he goes to visit her in prison to wish her Merry Christmas and presents her with an unthoughtful gift!

Experience: I am a student and have been animating for 2 and a half years

Time taken: 3 weeks in total

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Daniel Huertas:

too much of linear movements.. check your principals and concentrate in your arcs at animating.. keep it up

Sergey B.:

Lip sinc is not so good, needs a lot of work

Tim Nowak:

I like this jail set up scene but your characters look like they are being shocked while they talk to eachother. The lip sync needs improvement and the movements of the hamds and such needs to be smooth and realistic.

Will Mann:

Some of the facial movements are a little jerky and unnatural.

Aaron Clement:

I like the ladies stripped jursey... (her jail cloths). That's actually the colours of our home rugby team where I live in NZ. Animation wise, it needs simplifing. The staging works... just felt a little poppy at times. Watch the finger poses, also... the lady has rakes for fingers at the end... posing the entired character does make a difference... You can actually feel a lot of the wieght in the pose alone... bottom line, good effort.

Chris Sacco:

The movements are just a little under exaggerated or jumpy.

Taber Dunipace:

The technical glitches are bringing this piece down. Also, the acting needs to be better planned and executed. Stick to just one or two key actions and really make them sing.

Mariya Kalachova:

The eyebrows jump a bit too much on the man character, be careful with that jittery animation. And that jumper texture is a little distracting. Nice start though!!

Erik Westlund:

Ah, the prison that is an unhappy relationship. Very sad commentary. You must be feeling cynical. I'm not criticizing; just making a note. Movements are jerky and not always balanced with amount of activity elsewhere. The detached affect of the 'male' character is working in his first gesture. Try to animate the entire face as a unit, not just in parts, here or there; and try not to avoid symmetry in facial shapes throughout. Pointing gesture at the very end is "off-the-shelf" acting. Find more nuanced and personal ways to communicate based on observation in life.

HARISH:

needs a bit more smoothness !!!

sharad kumar:

try to act with the body too...watch out the lip sync.

Anirudh:

the lip sync looks a bit off, the mans animation looks stiff and lacks texture in terms of poses, follow thru. everything seems 2 be happening at the same time. the eye brows are tweening up and down very fast. womans beginning was quite nice, but then there after it looks very jerky and inbetweens looks very even. good effort tho.

Andrew Stovesand:

I like Mrs munchniks hair. Some of the eyebrows are popping.

Rajesh Gupta:

It needs good work on facial expression.

Mike B:

that's really funny when you think about it. nice block in of the animation. The poses could be pushed more

Dan Weiland:

I like the poses and the overall flow - sometimes the eyebrow movement in both characters seems too poppy or sporadic. Simplify them a bit and don't try to work as many expressions into the scene in such a short time.

adrian dawe:

nice timing.

deenad:

lipsync & expression r not looking ok - u must polish more

Dan Harriman:

This is a good idea! And the attitude of the characters is nicely portrayed. But unfortunately there are way to many jerky movements.

Lisa Taylor:

Some nice stuff in there. I think the timings alittle off though, especially when she points at him. Good attempt, well done