We Got Bupkis

Final Rating: 5.89. Finished: 13 out of 119 entries.
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Animator: Travis Ramsdale

Description: I was hoping to do a cool little film noir rip off for this one but unfortanately have ran out of time to polish it up.

Experience: 3 and a bit years

Time taken: A few days here and there

Comments:

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Ken Rice:

Nice - love the characters - nice snap and variation - body language great. As you have guessed I like this one.

Jose Stricklin:

Love the interaction between the characters! Good stuff.

Joseph Leung:

I like the body language of the characters. I wish you would have used characters with more control of the mouth. I also thought there needed to be more body language for the second verse.

Koty Juliano:

limitation on the lip sync works against this

James Wilson:

nice very nice

Ryan Lowe:

not terrible. you REALLY need a better model for the clip though. there is way to much fast dialogue. which doesnt read as well without the phenomes you get from a better constructed face.

Sandy Sze:

Great timing

Jean-Luc Delhougne:

What bugs me with the lip synch is that it seems to only vary from open to close shapes...Otherwise, poses are good, timing too, and we also get some nice subtle moves... Cool ;)

Victor Wong:

There's something a bit odd about the weight of the head against the hand.

Virgil Tanasa:

i really like this one! cool :)
i think you could have held the white guy's pose on "murder" a little bit longer, like he's somehow checking out the green guy's reaction.
still, really good. congratulations.

Andy Cunial:

Great staging and use of props! Love the idea!

Russell:

Be careful with holding poses. Perfectly still characters detract from the animation.

The poses are decent, but the transitions from the poses are erratic and take away from the tempo of the piece. Use your poses to work in a tempo so it is more interesting to view.

Watch out for clipping! Especially on hands going through objects. Your white characters hand goes into his cranium at the beginning.

Wiggling the head to accentuate a point usually doesn't work. It seems too rubbery.

Michel Giguère:

Looks pretty good. Nice snappy style. One small thing would be
when the tall guy shakes his head in his hands, the hands would need to follow the head a little better. I like the way he plays with his cup, and the ending on "bupkis'" is nicely energic..

sean connolly:

really nice performaces. only thing i might say is when the character says "with what" give those arms more ease so it feels a little less "vibratey" and machine like. great job though.

Joshua:

The characters needed to show more emotion.

Lisa Taylor:

I like the cartoony animation style you have on this. Nice work.

Kristoffer Drageset:

Love the guy in green. Especialy when he tilts his head looking though the blinders(f 119).

When the guy in white looks up around f 73, I think maybe you should have held that a bit longer.

Jon Graef:

I really like the acting, but depending on the structure of the rig I feel that there could be more shape change in the mouth rather than the jaw bouncing up and down.

Romain Digonnet:

Very good animation.
Congrats.
Only one remark, it's the left hand of the guy sitting down. When it's against the guys head, a few times it doesn't move enough with the head.

Phillip Johnson:

- When the green guy shakes his head it throws off what he's doing.
- White shirt guys hand crashes through head and then stays solid in place when head moves away.

Taber Dunipace:

Need better facial expressions and body language to understand what each character is thinking and feeling.

Boris Maras:

Nice, I really like the timing and I think your poses work nicely.

Erik Westlund:

Nice 'muppety' characters made with fun shapes. Nice combination of speeds that add variety and contrast. The characters each have business that seems appropriate for the shot and is keeping their performances real. The flapping 'Muppet style' mouth leaves no room for error, either hit it on the mark or miss... you haven't quite hit it on either rhythm or intensity.

Pablo Piccione:

Excelent....

Virgil Mihailescu:

hihi, great head movements! and the acting is really clear and supercool ;) too bad the mouths don't have more flexibility. anyway, great, great work!!

Natascha Evans:

still needs a little smoothing on the little green dude in some places. Like when he walks over and trying to get the inter-penetration of the hands on the guys head working. Otherwise great stuff.

Brian Boswell:

Nice!

Mike York:

I like IT :-)

Sarah Ricketts:

This is really good! I love his absent minded moving of the coffee cup, it really brings out his tension!

kEViN:

Cool Characters!

Steve Brown:

great attention to detail.. nice job!

Senthilnathan D:

wow this is very nice

sushant:

simply superb...!!!
the subtlety of motions showed.. ..expressive... the mood....posing and timing....
congrats.....!!!