Wanted

Final Rating: 5.63. Finished: 19 out of 119 entries.
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Animator: Bartek Kujbida

Description: Hey everyone. My goal was just to practice timing, posing and generally keeping it simple. I hope you enjoy it! As for the story...it's left open to interpretation! =] The character, rig, and model is used with permission (copyright Stefan Marjoram).

Experience: 2+ years

Time taken: less than 2 days

Comments:

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Jamie:

nice lip sync

Kent Wong:

haha.. Very unique style. Very funny too.I kinda like it.

Jeffrey Dekker:

cool characters. I liked this one a lot

Shawn Savage:

looks good

Michel Giguère:

Cool idea. Good animating but I would have liked more difference between thier facial expressions.

Zainab Siddiqui:

The lip synch's perfect and the movements and expressions remind me of muppets. Love it!

Kenny:

great job using no eyes and no arms

Jean-Luc Delhougne:

I like the style of this one, even if it doesn't count in the rating ;)
Some of the mouth shapes and the overall lipsnch would need some refining to make it a great piece of animation !

Nate Dorn:

good lipsync

Gregory Marlow:

do the eyebrows not move on the ardman rig?

Jonathan Wondrusch:

Could use more polish, but I dig the use of a limited rig for the animation

Ken Rice:

great - nice facial animation

Ryan Lowe:

VERY subtle! i love you got that type of acting with no legs/arms! wow. very cool piece.

Daniel Harris:

Nice work dude, you've got some great mouth shapes happening there. If I had to say something it would be that you could have made the motion on the left guy a lot more pronounced with his walk. More Y translation so you can really see and imagine each step.

David Walz:

this is really great. good animation and widely varying orginality

M.Bell:

It's those Aardman Lip Sync Tutorial Dudes! I never thought I'd seen anyone use them here. I think you did a great job, even with their lack of arms.

Mariah:

Love the movements! Even though they have no arms, this was totally readable! So comical and fun it actually made me laugh!

Andy Cunial:

You have very clear poses with the minimal detail. Great job!

Ian John White:

Love this, great character from not alot to play with

Joseph Leung:

I liked this piece... the staging, camera, character interaction and body language was good. Lip sync seemed good too based on what these characters were capable of. That being said, I wish you used more advanced character models to show more range.

Taber Dunipace:

High marks for making these guys feel natural! I feel like we miss out on not having facial expression, especially when we're so close up. It would've helped us understand each guy's mindset.

lizzie:

lovely animation and character acting

Marco Palmieri:

not bad considering you have no hands or eyes to reinforce the actions.

Louis Ng:

Very nice and smooth animation.

Even though the character is without arms (which makes the animation somewhat easier), it will be nice to see the character piling the wood arch his back to throw the wood, rather than just drop it like that.

Russell:

You did great with such minimal rigs. It goes to show how much can be done with simple body movements and shapes. Way to go! Your understanding of acting and animation is superb.

sharad kumar:

great lip sync!..keep it up.

James O'Neill:

I feel the animation is solid, but to make it even stronger, I would suggest using more eye brow movement. Especially since you don't have the use of arms.

Sarah North:

even with no arms or eyes these guys are quite expressive

Noel O'Malley:

The lip sync is spot on. Great work.

Carlos Fins:

Great lip synching. Wish there was a bit more variety between the characters..they both have the same expressions.

Romain Digonnet:

good animation on the mouth and torso. I like the "we've got bupkuss" turn.
But it seems not enough to have only the mouth and the torso animated.
Maybe could animate the hats and the eye brows. It would give more life.

Joan Delmont:

Funny ! I would have liked simple arms and eye...

Lauren Andersson:

these guys are cool!

RJay Bengelink:

Simple but effective. Nice soft background.

Erik Westlund:

Hey the Stefan Marjoram rig! Hope you have his permission. Love the western theme with saguaro cactus in the background. Looks like home. The minimal approach in your animation is both funny and appealing. Fits the model. The business going on with character entering the frame, leaving frame, and returning is great. The tempo of his movements fits perfectly and adds lot of humor. The western theme works with the subtext of the audio. Nice finish with screen left character pressing in as he makes his point.

Pablo Piccione:

Excelent lip sync....but with this character yuo missed the opportunity to show some face expressions...very good work

miles southan:

Very nice! I think you could have pushed the accents on "Now" and "Deal." Would be nice to see some arms too.

Victor Wong:

Nice lip-sync!

Mike York:

I think this is the BEst one soo far.. i really like your composition and your acting choices and I think the lip sync in right on the money.. Good Stuff Man

Ken Vass:

for such a low res mesh u sure pushed it!...great!

Brian Boswell:

So expressive for a pair of fleshy blobs. Good job.

pep:

with limited design on the character, this is good.

Elisa:

nice lip sync :)
they don't have arms and still u could give intensity to the lines

barak drori:

oh man. I love it!!
great characters. you are defenetly good in getting a lot from a little. nice.

Steve Brown:

Nice and simple, great staging

Virgil Mihailescu:

very cute, not bad animation, I like that it's more limited..... by character design... but it's pretty raw and hard to compare to more detailed animation... the great thing about this little animation here is that its acting is clear, simple and appealing. the question is... if the characters didn't have appeal in their design and facial setup.... would this animation still be so interesting to watch? anyway, I like the head movement a lot and the lipsync is also quite good.

Jason Smith:

Aren't these dudes from 3D world magazine from a few years back!! Nice job, resurrecting them!

Paul Vicol:

VERY unique!
Unique characters, unique setting, unique jobs!
Are they supposed to be mexicans, living around the border?
In any case, the only thing is that it might have been nicer for them to have arms to better show how they lift the logs up.
They could also be a bit more smoothed out...

Marcus Tee:

Interesting approach to minimal animation. Could have more expressions and better lip sync blends.

Nicely rendered, and entertaining non the less.