Call the Authorities

Final Rating: 6.35. Finished: 8 out of 119 entries.
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Animator: Jonathan Wondrusch

Description: Two pirates stuck on a shipwrecked raft with a dead sailor. Conflict ensues. Not fully polished yet, continuing to work on this past the deadline.

Experience: AM Grad, College Student

Time taken: Evenings/Weekends for two and a half weeks

Comments:

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Sean Coleman:

Nice and smooth. Good job!

Maybe hit your accents a little harder.

Sergey B.:

Nice animation :D

Shawn Savage:

good stuff

Jeremie Rosner:

nice key poses and timing
lipsynch is cool too
keep up the good work

Ryan Lowe:

acting choices are fine. great setting! saw this one in wip it shaped up just fine! arcs need more. timing seems off in places. great facial expression though!

Maria Chia:

good holds

Erik Westlund:

Somehow I'm just not getting the concept for this scenario. How does being shipwrecked in a row boat fit with espionage and murder. The dead body can also be interpreted as simply someone who is ill... overcome with exhaustion, heat, or thirst. You are hitting poses with an intensity that is consistent with the audio. Good anticipation, action, follow-through. Good, buttery smooth movement while not having "spline-y"/"floaty" results. Good staging and camera work. High marks on craftsmanship, lower on concept.

Paulo Cesar Biajante:

Good stagind and poses!

Jean-Luc Delhougne:

Very nice. Great subtleties in the acting. Some parts would need a bit more work, but it's almost there. Great work !

Mariah:

Great animation, audio seems off, and is a tad distracting.

Khet:

acting is nice! it would look better if u could add in some movment of the boat they are in :)

Micah Betts:

Exellent job here, although the scene (180-260) the brown character seems a bit too stationary when breathing that heavy.

Virgil Tanasa:

cool, the thing that popped in my eyes when i saw it a couple of times is that the brownish guy has a strange breathing animation in cut 3. i still think you could polish that one even more, fine-tune the lipsync too... Looks really good anyway! congratulations!

Ken Rice:

Good stuff

JD van der Merwe:

'Murder', 'What' and 'Bubkiss' are great, the rest feels a bit weaker.

Leon Gittens:

some nice poses going on here,

Louis Ng:

Very nice, believable execution of the dialogue.

I wonder if the waving at the ship in the distance should be more frantic, more like trying hard to get attention; right now it's more like waving a friend goodbye.

Victor Wong:

Nice facial expressions and gesturing.

Russell:

This is really nice work! I like the concept and the staging.

Watch out for stiff back and shoulders. Some poses the shoulders don't react to the lower torso's movement, which is never the case.

Traci Plagmann:

Nice piece!

James O'Neill:

I think there is some really good overlap and follow through. A few syllables in the lip sync seem a bit exaggerated, I would tone those down. The last camera angle is a bit awkward, I would move it more screen left.

yoozco:

good acting, good poses, nice one.

Lisa Taylor:

I like the way he pokes at the dead body at the end, nice acting choice.

Jon Graef:

I really really like the element of story here, because I feel that it is neglected a lot with most entries. Plus, the camera cuts are very smooth giving it a nice cinematic feel. Awesome job with the acting too.

Romain Digonnet:

Good animation and great camera work.
Seems like he slows down abnormally when he hits the corpse with his paddle...

Joan Delmont:

Good work. I would have liked the boat moving. The posing on "What !" seems too theatral for me.

Mark Kennedy:

Good animation. Only thing I would say after voting on 60 odd animations is that the hand cutting action appears to be a bit of a cliche. It would be a very good animation exercise to come up with a strong acting alternative.
Good stuff though.

Daniel Harris:

Cool man, great work!

I would have prefered the cut a little later when the green guys is saying "Deal", I kinda feel like I still want to see his performance for the line of dialogue until the very end. I can see that you wanted to have the guy on the right standing before his dialogue started, but you could have still done that in the previous shot with him in the foreground. Make sense? I'm being very picky though :-)

chloé:

Good idea. But you could move the boat in relation with the figures.
(Sorry for my english)

Joaquin Bello:

i think its grate, if you remove the first 25 frames it would be better, Theres something mechanic in shaking of his foot

Chelsea Hiatt Farley:

I'm confused as to what the big grey thing is in the middle of the boat. I like the animation on the left green guy's foot at the beginning.

Ken Vass:

nice work dude

Bryan Magan:

Render Me

Jason Smith:

Nice original idea, I like how the cream colored dude is breathing, nice touch!