Best Day of his life...?

Final Rating: 5.26. Finished: 20 out of 85 entries.
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Animator: Julianne McCartney

Description: This straight-jacketed madman feels he's having the best day of his life. He looks happy enough for it to be! :]

Experience: Recently graduated

Time taken: Spare time here and there...

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Taber Dunipace:

Well this came off really well in the end! Everything is clear and the characters are moving in interesting ways. I suppose my only criticism would be for the future. Try to give them very DISTINCT personalities so that they have unique ways to interact.

But anyway, this is awesome and you should definitely be proud.

Mike York:

I like your staging and idea it fits the audio well. Ive been watching this progress in the forum.

I think that when the girl pats his chest the timing is a little off. But overall its getting there :-)

Marshall:

Good take on the clip! Would have been cool if he got stuck with the needle, and started looking loopy at the end.

Jason:

hahah. very nice. tighten up the lip sync at parts and you'll have a nice piece of animation here

J.Kim:

Great! it's so funny:)
And...I guess it would be better if you use different camera angle. It looks a little bit flat...But I love your storytelling:) nice work!

elizabeth:

i liked the whole nurse patient idea. cool!

Mark Stoughton:

Maybe you could have the center character notice the needle instead of the nurse around frame 294, then turn to the nurse and say "I got that"

Ken Rice:

Appealing animation - lot of improvements seen in the WIP forum... enjoyed following the progress of this animation.

Kent Wong:

nice idea.

Ken:

Hmm, personally I feel it would be better if the doctor inject the needle into the guy just right before he said "I got that". I think that will make the idea stronger.

Frank G:

Really nice work. Easy to follow the action through a well told story. Definitely should be in the top 10!

Greg M. Johnson:

Very good expression of emotions.

Victor Wong:

Remember that the straps need to be animated as well.

Sunny Kharbanda:

Phil and the woman stay upright for too long... use the spine to make your poses stronger! Also work with the hips to add asymmetry and weight to your poses.

Henning Koczy:

Great except their giant heads seem weightless at points.

Erik Westlund:

Simple straight forward approach is working as a story. Staging is a little dull though. Some parts are unsupported such as why is the one attendant hiding the syringe when the patient is constrained? Also, if the straps are that stiff we should see some effect on the patients movement, instead he seems to move behind the straps easily. Shapes for poses are somewhat stiff while the rhythm of the movements are not... the quality of your animation is suffering because your poses lack adequate contrast. Facial expressions of patient character are working but final movement is bigger than the intensity of the audio supports. If you had hit the accent on "Ahhh, ha-ha-ha, let's not, oh... " (before frame 320) and dropped down to line on last pose before saying "I got that" might have worked without confusing a big move with less intense audio.

Ceno:

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Luke Sullivan:

Standing characters seem a little too static in their poses. Head and facial animation seem a little overdone.

Senthilnathan D:

Good idea.

Jason Smith:

Great flick to the needle. Good poses.

Chris Woods:

Nice simple performances with plenty of appealing flourishes in the movement. The lip sync seems a little muddy though.

Max Rodriguez:

Work on the ease in/outs for the eyebrow raises. nicely done.

Jorge Zagatto:

Very good!

James Stevenson:

I like the idea - I think you could blindfold the character on the board though as in context of what he can see it seems a little odd! If he was oblivious, it would be funnier, in my opinion at least! Good work though.