a christmas rebuff

Final Rating: 6.11. Finished: 6 out of 63 entries.
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Animator: sharad kumar

Description: i am putting it like this...the cake has been bought recently and it is a fresh one ..but Mrs. munchnik never really trust anyone.

Experience: 1 year

Time taken: stolen time during the last 15 days

Comments:

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luc:

Love the staging and props. Animation is good but feel like it needs to be more fluid. Movements seem to stop on keys.

Jason Smith:

Good acting.

Daniel Huertas:

you need to tight your acting up.. it looks a little floaty from pose to pose..

Tim Nowak:

Almost realistic. Nice job.

Mathias Takacs:

talented!

Aaron Clement:

Well staged. Felt a little mediocre... the guys lip sync needed more shape to it. I like the render.

Erik Westlund:

Nice use of pregnant pauses. Characters appear to be tethered by emotional/psychological threads. Nice subtle movements in holds. Hands are still a little stiff. Walk off screen is solid with good weight, good acting... very convincing. Female seems to be the protagonist in your version. I like it.

Frank G:

Nice acting

Johan Fruh:

I like the woman's reaction a lot. How she looks at the cake and all. Very nice.
I don't think you should of covered her mouth with her hand when she says remarkably. It's an accentuated part of the phrase, and we sort of lose it's emphasis due to the hand.

Jeff Outlaw:

great facial work! The double-take she gives looks just a bit too snappy.

Imus zai:

wow! to the point!

Mariya Kalachova:

Great possibly the most natural acting I've seen so far.

Sunny Kharbanda:

Very nice, subtle approach! My one small comment would be that when she straightens her glasses, we should get to see some movement in her lower face even if her mouth itself gets blocked. Great work otherwise.

Taber Dunipace:

Nice.

Justin Weg:

Nice job. The lipsync on the woman could use some work.

sharad kumar:

i screwed up the lip sync!!

Jules Nerestant:

Performances arent extraordinary but they are solid throught. Great work!

Katy Lambourne:

Very nice, works on a more gentle level. One point, I feel that the way the female leaves needed just a little bit more work.... maybe a bit more of a head tilt towards the male on the 'last year' (looking over her glasses).... to give a bit of a patronising feel. And leave her in frame for a bit longer before she walks away... you have a few more seconds for some good expressions there.

Sachin:

nice animation.....but i feel, u can work on lip sync little more.....

Paulo Clayton:

The acting is very well done, just need to make lip sync match a little better to the dialog.

Ian Johnston:

Good framing of the scene. Nice set up with the props and location. Nice creative solution for the challenge! My only comment I have is that the fruitcake looks heavy, which is why he carries it with both hands, then he removes one hand to gesture and I kept waiting for the fruitcake to slide off the plate! I would like to see his one hand compensate a little more to carry the weight, or simply reduce the size of the fruitcake. That thing is massive and looks like it needs more support.

Kat Curry:

you could push Mrs M's mouth shapes a bit more. watch your characters going "dead" occasionally. otherwise, nice staging and character interaction

Dan Harriman:

I like it! This is fun to watch!
My only petty concern might be that the "fruitcake" gesture is a bit of an obvious acting choice. Like I said, petty. Great work!

HARISH:

Excellent !!!

Cameron Huber:

This is pretty nicely done but the only thing that let it down was the mouth movement. A lot of times it seems a little weak. If the expressions were opened up more it would complete this piece. Other than that, nice work!

Traci Plagmann:

I like your acting choices. Everything looks really good. My only suggestion would be to get a little movement in there in the places where the characters stop completely.

Yeray Díaz Díaz:

Good timing and smooth moves. I love how alfred move slowly into the shot.

The biggest problem I see is lipsync and the timing of the changes on facial expressions. Being so slow they don't give the appearance of though much. Doesn't feel like a sincere reaction.

Still, it's a nice piece.

jonathan fontaine:

she do not look a t the cake...