Bupkis, my dear Watson

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Final Rating: 6.9. Finished: 1 out of 119 entries.
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Animator: Phillip Hall

Description: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson hope to make a deal when they find themselves in a precarious situation which involves espionage, murder, and um.....bupkis!

Experience: 6 years

Time taken: about 40 hours here and there in my spare time

Comments:

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Jeffrey Dekker:

Great job, i really liked your ideas.

Kent Wong:

interesting facial! Especially the moustache guy.

Scott Douglas:

Great style! I love this one.

Gregory Marlow:

This looks very good. My favorite so far. But I have 82 left :D

Ryan Lowe:

GREAT acting choices. timing and sync is off. but awesome poses!

Brandon:

Great Sherlock theme.. Characters are very expressive

Jane Carver:

camera movement - props - and animation work super well

Paulo Cesar Biajante:

good acting!

Jean-Luc Delhougne:

Really nice cartoony animation, with good ideas in the poses, and I also like the "watson" turn in front of the camera, very dynamic. The lip synch is a bit off though and would need more work.

David Walz:

good animation. but a little gory, you think?

chrisbyk:

wow I really like how ur second character is moving from one side of the screen to the other .

Joseph Leung:

Nice job. I just thought the way the character (at the door) moved into and out of the camera view did not match what was going on in his voice.

Daniel Huertas:

i like the expression on the little guy when he says "deal" :P suits perfect!.. but at the end i think the personality of the main character breaks with that pose.. i think too broad for what he was showing as a personality...

keep it up

Erik Westlund:

Masterful staging. Lip-sync is fabulous up until frame 96 and then seems to fall away from the audio. (technical issues?) Great variety in poses and line of action right from the beginning. I love the way 'holmes' leaves the shot while saying "...cut a deal." He seems happy... almost giddy. What a wonderfully different interpretation of the audio! 'Sherlock's' gesture on "espionage and murder" is less than graceful. Something to do with the elbow and wrist not helping the arc of the movement. Nice big finish with overshoot and settle up into final pose. Very nice.

Russell:

Try to avoid camera moves unless it helps the story. Almost 98% of the time, camera moves are a bad decision.

I think a half second bumper at the beginning would give the mustached character time to look out of the mailbox hole, do a take, settle, then turn his head and begin the dialogue. By starting the dialogue at the beginning with the character facing away from the camera makes it difficult to read who is talking at the beginning.

Decent work!

Slobodan Danilovic:

Motion is excellent, only reason for leaving the 2 stars out would be acting of the "cut a deal" character. He's smiling 2much.

Michel Giguère:

Nice clip. Funny and dynamic. I am just not sure if "Watson" is worried or happy. Other than that, there is really nice flow in your movements.

Ken Rice:

Nice

Taber Dunipace:

Great stuff! It could use a bit of polish on the actions, keeping them natural and un-robotic. Some of Watson's movements still need a bit of work but this is still really good overall. Best part about this animation is that it's really fun to watch!

Marco Palmieri:

the guy in the grey hat seems out of character. otherwise, motion is good. poses are clear. not a bad effort.

Louis Ng:

Nice . .. very distinct personalities between the two characters.

When the moustache guy lean back from peeking out of the door, shouldnt his hip also adjust back to balance himself?

Joshua:

loved the expressions! nice work.

Traci Plagmann:

Really nice job!

barak drori:

very nice piece of animation!

Adrian Baluta:

Nice acting,nice animation good work man.I will like to see more of this kind of act.
BRAVO!

Helen Cranston:

I love the moustached guys movement here. Excellent

Leon Gittens:

some real nice facial expressions and strong poses good job

James O'Neill:

The lip sync is simple, and I like it.

Ezra Allen:

really nice like the bowler hat

Phillip Johnson:

- Sherlocks right arm needs to be smoother on "murder"
- Lipsync could use some work
Really nice overall.

Lauren Andersson:

fun scene!

Alonso Soriano:

nicely done,
watch the arcs on the hand on Murder
watson's looking unexplainably devious as he steps off screen right at the end, not sure if what he's thinking/feeling matches his dialogue

Richard Clark:

Right at the end of the first guy's dialogue, his motion freezes completely just for a couple of seconds. The lipsyncing is also a little off but not much.

jonas bech:

he funny story

jeff:

good style

Sergey B.:

Great animation !!! i like the charackters

Mike York:

Good Acting

Chelsea Hiatt Farley:

Love the animation on "Watson's" hat, and his movements at the end of the scene. Great body language.

chloé:

It would have been perfect without the "flic" of animation.

Lianna Scrimger:

nice idea with the pipe

Brian Boswell:

Is Watson on a conveyor belt? His movement was very fluid, but his motivation was unclear.

Jason Smith:

Excellent job, great poses and use of the principles!! It gets my vote!

Senthilnathan D:

nice

Jorge Zagatto:

funny!