Phils Best Friend
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Kevin Scott:
Love the dog pat on the head!
Mike York:
I still like your idea and take on this audio clip. Lovin the dog animation as well . Great work man. Its a little unfinished and could use some clean up but its a nice awesome start.
Julianne McCartney:
This piece worked out great!
Ken Rice:
This works well in places but I think theres just too much movement going on (especially at the end) and it's difficult to know where to look - cleaned up and coloured in this could be a nice animation.
Frank G:
The starting idea set this animation up as a good one. Some nice timing, interactions, gestures, and overlaps.
Taber Dunipace:
Aww I wanted to see this one finished! It still is looking really good though, just needs to be brought to completion.
Victor Wong:
Very good facial expressions, esp. for an incomplete animation.
Ambuj:
nice!!
Christopher Salamat:
The emotion on the right character doesn't seem to fit with his the dialogue. He seems too angry. Watch his hand movement too, they probably would have crashed at the end. Watch the ear movement on the dog especially on the laugh. The girl should have have a reaction when the dog pops up, right now she's just sitting there when he pops up. Her reaction to the dog jumping down needs some work. Maybe because of the speed, its looks like shes just losing her balance.
Erik Westlund:
This concept is a great solution to the challenge that the audio presents! You hit an element in the audio for the female character (around frame 120) that I had not heard until now. You have three distinct and very convincing performances here. It will be nice to the the final ink and paint on this sequence. All performances are connected or relating to one another. The arc heading into "I got that." could be a little stronger. Very nice overall.
Michael Cawood:
Pretty good. I like the attitude of the driver. Shame it's not at smooth as it could be and there's lots of stopping and starting with no moving holds.
Juan Z.:
nice work. i like the style. i hope you finish it.
Ron Price:
Nice spunky motion! Seems like there are places where you've picked up some very subtle vocalizations and animated them where it might have been better to simplify.
Sam Caudill:
great concept!
Max Rodriguez:
I'm digging some of the motion, but still seems to be in the testing stage.
Aaron Clement:
Not too bad... not sure what happened to the colour, though... I liked the first half.









Animator: Daniel Luke
Description: As you can see, I really bit off more than I could chew. I unfortunately didn't leave enough time for cleanup and coloring.
'Phil' has begrudgingly bought 'Ned' (The dog) from the pound, for his girlfriend, who is quite enamored by 'Ned'.
Experience: 3 years (yr 12 and 1st 2 years of uni)
Time taken: Maybe five solid days? I'm sorry I didn't count as I went.