Fruitcake

Final Rating: 5.89. Finished: 8 out of 63 entries.
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Animator: Dave H Shovlin

Description: There was more but I didn't have time to finish so I decided to drop the other character and the background and focus on her.

Experience: Still learning

Time taken: Maybe 10 hours

Comments:

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Sergey B.:

Great work, It would be desirable that it toward the end has thrown out a cake

Mike York:

I like this one. I also like the secondary movements you put on the bag. Nice touch

Daniel Huertas:

i like it .. but i think you need to polish it a little bit more.. i can see some pops in the head movement and from pose to pose you need to work on your eases in/out... nice job overall :)

Hernán Bruna:

Haha very good, the movements are very natural, congratz for that.

Ken Rice:

You cleaned this up nicely from your WIP: having the woman on her own is a smart move. Nice movement and exaggerated poses.

luc:

timing seems a little off, and she has too much facial expressions going on. Nice though.

Avner Engel:

Very nice entry with great appeal/ attitude and staging. The negative space around the character is a little too big for this shot, it makes it a little bit empty. I think the acting works quite well, it's solid.
Excellent work though, I really enjoyed it. Well done.

Johan Fruh:

Very nice acting! Lots of character in her hehe.

I do have got two little critiques though.
- She seems to pull the cake out a tad bit too late. Saying "A fruitcake..." while her hand is still in the bag. I would make her say that only once the cake outside.
- She moves her eyebrows a bit much, before saying "remarkably..."

Taber Dunipace:

Very interesting and well animated piece. I will say that it looks like you're forcing the actions a little bit.

Sunny Kharbanda:

Some nice reactions. The pose around frame 100 looks a bit off balance though. Still a fun piece to watch.

Frank G:

Best acting so far. You know what you're doing.

Mariya Kalachova:

Brilliant very fluid!

Tim Nowak:

PERFECT!

Chris Sacco:

Very good movement in the character! I think that it just needs the other character in the scene to make it better.

Erik Westlund:

Nice mechanics with the bag. Handles follow hands, change in grip to one hand, plunge of hand into bag, etc. Well done. There are some nice acting bits especially in the beginning. Excitement shifts to disappointment, contempt all in less then 75 frames. Nice choice with looking at (implied/off screen) second character while hand dives in for gift. Nice accents in movement. Remainder of performance after "A fruitcake?" communicates suspicion effectively but is not as convincing as the start.

Jules Nerestant:

Great animation, though I always think from the voice that she knows that its the exact same cake. Staging is a bit dull but that can be overlooked.

jerome Saravas:

but could be smother

Sachin:

nice animation but i think u forget to smooth the curves in beginning......

Mat Brady:

Nice poses and things, buuut.... too overacted. Not natural. Soz

sharad kumar:

u need to control her hip movement towards the end ..it moves too much....

jonathan topf:

to much eyebrows, but otherwise cool

ClintW:

woo...now thats sassssss....seems abit much to me for the voice though...i love the actions and the attitude though if taken on strictly an animating level and not relative to the dialogue...

Andrew Linke:

really great performance of the character but i don't think the large body movements match the smaller voices.

Aaron Jonas:

Nice work. I would have like to seen the guy in there

Marco Roberts:

I like the animation.

Dan Harriman:

The motion is wonderful in this one. But the acting choices need work. The face on 95 looks a little too innocent. And the final pose on 250 looks a little too sassy. Mainly the hips.

Aaron Clement:

I love her look when she took the fruitcake out of the bag. Seemed a bit complex in places, though.

Yeray Díaz Díaz:

Good job! The animation is tight and fluid, Good use of the bag and nice expression and contrast on the body and face.

The only thing I see could be the performance, it's a little over the top, she seems to go from a very extreme face to another. Sometimes an empty expression makes the performance better.

Still, a very nice clip, one of my favourites. Great job and congratulations!

Michael Cawood:

There's a little too much eye brow movement and I noticed you (probably wisely) removed the man from the shot (I'm guessing due to time restrictions). Otherwise this is a really strong piece.

HARISH:

nice .... the only thing is that the hips are rotationg too much when shifting the weight... otherwise nice work

Imus zai:

excellent! just need miner touches to finish it off!

gerardo castellanos:

with personality! I like it

Joan Delmont:

good posing and intents, but too much interpolations ( her expression at the end...)

Mike B:

very expressive. nice job

Damian Isherwood:

Some floaty facial movements near the end and the bag(which is pretty decent) alsotends to defy gravity a bit.

adrian dawe:

really nice animation!
love the poses, and i think the facial animation needs a bit more work.

Cameron Huber:

I like this, however there were a few poses before she pulls out the cake where it seemed really snappy. Also without the guy in the scene it lets itself down a little.

doc:

she looks like my ex-wife.
wait - i think it is.
great job.

Senthilnathan D:

very nice

Nathan Jent:

I like the expressions. The eyebrows need toned down. It feels like there is too much movement in them. Good work, though.

Dave H Shovlin:

Hmm. The fruitcake floats a little. There are a few little odds and ends I would have changed but I could spend an eternity tweeking things here and there. My greatest regret is not having the dude in there.

mohinder kaur:

Great attitude on her and well expressed through the animation.

Something doesnt feel quite right about the last step. Maybe a little too big for the dialogue.

Jay Grenier:

Finally a woman who acts like a woman! Very nice work. The transition between her reaction to what she sees, and "a fruitcake?" could be a little more polished, but man this is good. Awesome!

Jason Smith:

Great use of the bag as a prop, nice touch.

Lisa Taylor:

Some really nice poses and expressions, Im not quite sure they fit the subject though, it feels a bit off character wise. Nice attempt though, well done.

Josh:

Love the look in the bag and the expression change there. Little too much going on in the brow during her line. Pull a couple of the brow shifts.