We've Got Bupkis!

Final Rating: 5.51. Finished: 22 out of 119 entries.
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Animator: Scott Douglas

Description: Two wanna-be spies stumble onto more than they can handle.

Experience: 4 years

Time taken: 2 weeks, part-time

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Koty Juliano:

nice background.

Michel Giguère:

Very nice and easy to read animation, Nice render, and good camera too. Only thing that did not work really well for me is the timing for showing the top secret file. Very nice poses, especially the guy with the white shirt.

David Walz:

characters and environment are completely original

Virgil Tanasa:

the final gesture of red guy seems a bit over the top. "with what" could have been delivered with less emphasis, with a less stronger action, so that "we got bupkis" would have read better.

Taber Dunipace:

A couple of weird moments but overall very very strong! I wish he had held the file up a bit longer so that I could read it. Also the first guy's reaction to "With what!?" seems unnatural and hoaky.

Jean-Luc Delhougne:

Nice..The overall acting, timing, etc... Are ok, but your poses could need more work and precision.

Ken Rice:

Good animation - however I don't think it's necessary to have gestures for everything that is being said

Joseph Leung:

I liked your staging and presentation. However, the characters' body language after the beginning didn't seem to match well with the voice.

E. Cooman:

Verry nice!

Justin Denton:

Great poses and flow!! Soooo Close to getting a 9or 10 stars from me...the holds on the characters when they aren't talking were just a little too lifeless.

sean connolly:

i like the acting for the most part. it might be too forceful or obvious to show the guy the top secret folder. maybe just have it in his hand and if the viewer sees it they see it.

Louis Ng:

I like the entire clip, nice execution of the dialogue is rather nice. Strong poses.

I am just not sure about 1 thing: When the hand of the victim drops, is it supposed to coincide with the sound of the bottle/phone/car boot like sound? if so, why would the hand sound like that?

Alexis St-Laurent:

Your animation is good and the movement is fluid. But it would be nice to have different moves from time to time. All I see is people hitting the air in front of them, there is a thousand ways to use the arms. You could try and look the body language of an actor or try it out in front of your mirror to get some references.

Marcus Tee:

Great Work!

Red Guy could hold the Top Secret File still slightly longer / shove it into the other guys face to exaggerate "Espionage" and for viewers to notice that he's holding a top secret folder. Took me a second time to notice the print.

Red Guys' animation is great, expression and gestures.

White guy could be better overall, expressions could have more subtle changes.

Ali Tezel:

Great effort. My suggestion would be to pay more attention to your hand poses. Right now you have a lot of unappealing hand poses. For example at frame 157. Great job overall!

Erik Westlund:

Nice variety of posing in the first shot having three characters at three different levels in the frame. Good use of cut on action. All actions to convey story that involve hands appear to be overdone. Revealing the TOP SECRETE envelope, the downward gesture on "murder", the wrists held together as if handcuffed on "turn ourselves in", the finger point downward on "NOW", the repeated pounding of fist on three accents in "Cut A Deal." Each is overly simplistic as if we won't understand what is in the audio. Final action for screen right character uses the same action to hit both accents on "What" and "Bupkis". Try to work more impressionistically and less literally. You are posing creates reasonable good compositions with flow between characters.

sharad kumar:

your intention is correct at frm 106,...but its not fitting in.I think u need 2 reduce that shoulder thing.

André Moreira Forni:

Wow ! Very nice piece of animation, my only critique is that i am not as big fan of the red shirt guy acting on the last shot. But overall it is great :)

jeff:

nice