Fruit Cake

Final Rating: 4.53. Finished: 31 out of 63 entries.
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Animator: Dane Winn

Description: basically I didn't want to distract the viewer with anotha character reacting while the main character was speaking, so I did the sequence in 4 shots.

Experience: about 8 years of personal experience

Time taken: just over a week

Comments:

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Daniel Huertas:

i think i would stage it differently.. in this type of close up shots you need a stablishing shot first to show where your characters are gonna perform their acting.. try to check the lipsync also.. it feels floaty sometimes... keep it up

Tim Nowak:

Good animation but could have used more action.

Will Mann:

Good job with the lady but the guy could use a little more work.

Aaron Clement:

I love the girls expression with the pointing mouth! That was really nice... a pretty ugly girl, though. Good stuff with the expressions... nice stuff!

Anton de la Campa:

really nice and subtle acting choices -- feels extremely natural! great job!

Frank G:

Nice brow lift. The characters could be positioned more to stage left or right to increase interest.

Emmanuel Vergne:

try to use the shoulders on your poses

Imus zai:

no comment! excellent!

Taber Dunipace:

The motion is very soft and floaty, a hallmark of incomplete CG animation. Try to work on your timing and inbetweens.

sharad kumar:

work on your staging more..

Mat Brady:

Nice. Love the expression. Pacing works. All good. Could have gotten better characters though. They seem incongruous to each other.

Katy Lambourne:

The expressions and lip sync work very nicely with the dialogue! Only thing I will critique is after he says '...yes'... it seems a bit too 'statue'. A little bit more movement would have polished it off nicely!

Jason Smith:

I like the little glance 'she' gives at the end.

Erik Westlund:

You seem to be starting off with a lot of things in the right places. Anticipation into the first action "Merry Christmas Mrs. Munchnick" is in the scale to intensity of the audio track. You should probably start with the eyes closed instead of blinking in the middle of the action. Slight head turn adds the right amount of movement in the hold (frames 22-32). The arc you are building stops when the nose drops slightly (frames 32-42). The first pose after Mrs. M drops the paper is very good (100). The audio track is more intense on "Remarkably like... " but her pose is not working with the same intensity (198). Sideways glance (224) is nice but you could also reverse the line of action on the accents during this final sequence (196, 224, 232) which would add intensity, contrast, and interest. When the eyes blink, drop the pupil slightly with the upper lid. The upper lid should drop more than the lower lid rises (65, 187). Make the pupils follow and arc (usually down) on big changes in the eye direction. Eye darts are good but you should have the lids adjust up or down in tandem with the eyes (87-90). The lids will move a little less than the eyes, and the brows should move slightly but even less than the lids. For even greater effect delay the brow movement a frame or two. This makes the face work as a single, living whole.

Ian Johnston:

As he presents the fruitcake, his arms extend and then move with his upper body downward. The movement feels a little unnatural so if you countered the movement of the fruitcake, added a subtle little secondary bounce to the cake and kept it at the same level, it would help that movement feel natural. I like the facial expression for Mrs. Munchnik and her reaction as well. The timing for the first time she raises her eyebrow seems a little fast. Good job!

Dan Harriman:

The portrayal of your chosen performances were well executed. good use of moving holds. I would suggest though, that your acting choices need some work. These performances did work- But they didn't have the very best fit to the dialogue.

Dave H Shovlin:

Good acting. Strong poses and expression. I think this could have been accomplished in one shot though.

Yeray Díaz Díaz:

I like the expressions on the "lady". You have a couple of motion problems on the male though, some parts come to a halt while others move, watch out for completely still parts. His spine also moves weird, seems like only rotating a little bit on one axis, specially on the "yes". You could try and add a pose there, showing a little reaction to the comment by the lady.

Jesse Baumgartner:

Would help to have the first shot include both characters so we can see the relationship between them.

Ben Hammersley:

nice facial poses on the blue guy, really liked that.