Contradiction

Final Rating: 6.14. Finished: 10 out of 119 entries.
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Animator: Virgil Tanasa

Description: back in competition after a loong absence. i will definitely do my best to be in every month from now on!
(and finsh the work properly!
:sigh: )

Experience: 4 years

Time taken: about 2 weeks, a couple hours a day.

Comments:

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Jamie:

cool stuff, maybe a bit more emphasis on expression

Sean Coleman:

Good overall staging. Cuts feel right too.

Hand movement on 'cut a deal' sort of gets lost as its happening practically out of frame. Maybe rework the camera a little for that

Scott Douglas:

Good stuff, but feels a little stiff at times. The poses are nice and get the point across.
Camera should probably be widened up in the section between 150-247 to show more of his nice hand gestures.
Little hand pop at frame 249.

Jeffrey Dekker:

Great job!!

Daniel Harris:

Heya! Nice work, I like it! I would say the framing on your second last shot was a little tight though, with gestures partially in shot and getting very close to touching the edge of the frame!

Sandy Sze:

Good acting choices you made there. Timing is good. But the cuts are some what jarring, it's good to cut on action but shots somehow don't quite match and detracts a little. Overall good stuff!

Ryan Lowe:

the voice is angrier than your characters portray. not quite enough.

Jean-Luc Delhougne:

Overall pretty good.. Maybe add some more subtleties to the lipsynch... And the final pose of the blueish guy is not really good...

Mariah:

Cute! Nice depth of field. I would love to see this pushed just a little more, especially with the accents on the dialog.

Paulo Cesar Biajante:

Hi man... good acting, poses and stagind!

Louis Ng:

Good acting choices. Mostly smooth techniques. Great job!

I suggest that the guy nearer to the door can take a step or two closer to the other guy at the table as he starts to engage him, so that he door guy wont seem rooted to the sport.

At " all the more reason . ." part, the lipsync seem to not match, and the mouth shape at "more" seems to pop. Hope it helps improve your work. Nice work.

Russell:

Very nice work!

Some of the poses are held perfectly still, which breaks the continuity of the moving holds you have throughout the piece.

The hands on the table should show friction, not stickiness. Give a little movement on the fingers when planted. Friction comes from the palm, not the fingers.

Good job!

Michel Giguère:

I like your clip, it's not overly animated, clear and believable.
Timing looks right to me as well.

E. Cooman:

Love the expression, could've used a bit more expression on the blue guy. Nice.

Erik Westlund:

Simple and effective staging. Oscillating cuts using medium close-ups on characters when debate is ramping up. Nice. Slight hand slide on table when screen left character stands up. Nice use of reversals. Screen right character needs more variety in posing; too much the same in the beginning and end. Some variety of mouth shape (narrow wide) but could probably be pushed a little more. Beautiful use of DOF in render but that's off topic.

lizzie:

nice and to the point

Marco Palmieri:

not bad except for one C/U camera cut to the green guy, you should just leave it out.

Joseph Leung:

Nice job. I felt that there could have been stronger body language in the third verse for the blue character, or just more emphasis on the word "NOW."

yoozco:

good one

Ezra Allen:

165 reason to turn our selves in, lip synch looks a bit out, bit late I think.

Nice work, maybe could do with some thing a bit flashy to punch it up, Im not really seeing a climax where the performance seems more intense.

Romain Digonnet:

Good animation and poses.
I would of put alittle more movement on the "all the more reason" part, he seems a littls stiff.

sean connolly:

great performances.

Mike York:

Great camera cuts and DOF good work :-)

Brian Boswell:

Yellow guys emotions are all over the place. It feels more schizophrenic than changes in mood. Fix that and I'll add another star. Very well done otherwise.

pep:

Love the camera change of focus, and the lighting.I am thinking when during the close up of the blue character, his facial could be stronger.

Elisa:

the editing of the scene looks nice along with the animation
kudos :)

James O'Neill:

The camera cuts I feel are the weakest part, I would suggest locking the camera down. Good overlap.

gerardo castellanos:

i think your animation is very good, but you can exggerate more your poses, if you do I think you will sell more your performance.