Split Ego

Final Rating: 3.69. Finished: 74 out of 119 entries.
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Animator: Matthew Serle

Description: One man, one mirror, two personalities!

11 second virgin here... and i mean the website !

Experience: 6 months

Time taken: 2 days

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J K:

Very funny with the Mirror!! hah
Needs some more polish.

Jean-Luc Delhougne:

Even if not a bit classic, the idea is cool. The animation needs a lot more work ..

Ryan Lowe:

A little floaty, watch most of your arcs, and curves. Lip synch is decent.

Brandon:

I like the mirror idea. Animation seemed a bit stiff to me.

Jon Houston:

Is it his reflection, or someone on the other side of the glass?

Jonathan Wondrusch:

Nice attempt at the idea. I think you could move your staging in and get a better framing of teh animation. Seems very low key for something as intense as an alter ego.

Mariah:

Fun idea!!

Ceno:

hauauhauh cool cool cool

Slobodan Danilovic:

hehe, excellent idea for the mirror character, but pleanty of room for animation improvement

Ken Rice:

good effort- a bit stiff and floaty in places though.

Joe Garhan:

the mirror thing is getting over done. At least 1 entry per month has done it.

sean connolly:

i really like the idea. watch the eveness. for example when he punches his hand. maybe keep his fist out while he say "all the more reason to..." and only go to punch right before or as he says "now!"

Erik Westlund:

Staging is a little awkward; rather high and removed. Movement of torso, neck, and head is primarily into and out of space in front of character(s). Line of action, and reversals in line of action, do not seem to be crafted for camera angle. Pose on "...NOW while we can still cut a deal" is lacking intensity to match audio track. He seems to just turn psychologically inward. Last pose on 'bupkis" is also not intense enough in my opinion. Clever technical issues seem to have been worked out for this example of "talking to self in mirror".

James O'Neill:

I would say blocking out your key poses would greatly strengthen the readability of your characters emotions. Think about timing, so poses don't just wander from one to the next, make it snappy, by having shorter amounts of time it takes a pose to transition to another. Remember to use overlap, it will help loosen up your characters.

Dan Dulberger:

When he does the quotes gesture he builds up to it too soon. It should be more spontanious than that. In addition to that showing more of the eyes would have given it more emphasis. Simple jokes are usually made extra obvious.

Russell:

The tempo is really slow.

The poses swim into each other.

Good concept.

Taber Dunipace:

I don't think that the reflection should sync back up with the character when he speaks his lines.

Jon:

Great Idea!

barak drori:

the best idea for far in terms of duality, I like it!

André Moreira Forni:

I loved the mirro idea of animation and how they blend toguether ! But your animation looks a bit linear, maybe use more ease in and outs?

Good job !

Sarah Ricketts:

Great idea, works well with the sound clip!

Brian Boswell:

Very smooth transitions between "actors." Some poppy frames, but the concept and mostly solid animation sell this for me. Good work.

Michael Vandenhoven:

Love the idea

Paul Vicol:

Very nice!!!!
Fantastic idea!!
Really excellent concept, with the man in the mirror and all!!!
But, if the man in the mirror is like his alter ego, it looks kind of weird that he (mirror man) is just a reflection when the real man is moving. I'd picture him reacting on the fly to the real man's words.
Also the mirror could be more reflective, and not so dim.
But the idea gets full credit from me!!!