Escelce - January Entry
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Daniel Kaplan:
Too bad the animation isnt as good as the render
Zachariah Mathew:
Thats quite a setup you got there man.I feel the animation of the Fish called "PHIL'...becomes a bit too floaty when he completes that dart towards screen left...but the other two are very believable.
Joanne Ku:
It's difficult to see that reaction of Phil because all my concentration is on the big fish. Over all, I do like to see these fish swim! They swam lovely.
Justin Weg:
Wow, water effects and everything. Pretty cool!
Julianne McCartney:
Really nice water and caustics. The rendering is really impressive. The acting on your main fish is pretty good!
Mike York:
Wow! this is nice... I like how you went all out and finished the rendered look and everything.
The fish seem to be very stiff though I still think it needs some work, BUt the look of your render looks gREAT!
Jason:
amazing lighting, and special effects. however the fish are so small it's hard to see the acting and lipsync.
Lauren Andersson:
aww, i love this one!
Taber Dunipace:
I like the blocking on this but I couldn't tell that it was the small fish talking because their faces are so small.
Joe Garhan:
oh wow. well don i really like this. Its a very nice all around package
Mark Stoughton:
Really good! The only thing that I noticed was that the little striped fish moves sideways from 174-188 or so and didn't look quite natural. Otherwise everything was almost perfect, very Nemo like look.
Kent Wong:
COOL. Great animation! Nice characteristics too... very fun to watch. However, I think you should move the camera to the "Death Reef" signboard earlier so that it's easy to get the joke. And the blur wave in the water makes it harder to read the signboard and focus on the main fish at the same time.
Initially, I didnt get it at all what is the evil fishes are doing until i watched few times and analyse each every fish, then only I saw that evil fish trying to erase the word. Yet, excellent effort! excellent animation!
Maureen Seng:
good work, but i can't see the girl fish well when she speaks.
Frank G:
There's some stuff here that is way above my technical skill, so I think magic was involved.
Ümit Dönmez:
a fish is easier to animate than a human ;) but i like it
the lipsync could be improved.
Jeranimo:
Brilliant work. Finding Nemo quality.... WOW... you'll be the winner, I'm sure!!
Greg M. Johnson:
Expressions and body movement are perfect. Funny story.
luc:
Overall nice, but would have like to see more close-up.
Renato Fochi:
Really great!
Brynjar Gigja ( Eli ):
Creative and good animation!
Christopher Salamat:
Creative. Nice bit with the tail wiping off the death. Hard to see the other characters talk and react though.
V_I_C_K_Y:
Itz Like I M watching some movie clip,
gr*8 stuff.
Bill Radford:
this is very good. could use some touch ups around the laughing frames.
HARISH:
super Awesome stuff !!! no doubt
lucas:
very good. the fish movement feels very natural
Luke Sullivan:
Swimming animation could be much more fluid. Lip sync is a little off.....and, uh, fish don't blink.
Jason Smith:
Great job animating under water! Nice work.
Juan Z.:
i like that you didn't lose the animation with the render. great job
Senthilnathan D:
good job
Erik Westlund:
Nice setup and delivery. Movement is good although I feel like the faces could travel on arcs that have been defined a little bit more. Darting movement of female is the weakest moment. Perhaps she should have come around the other side blocking his view before redirecting his attention.
sharad kumar:
a good one!...the only problem is the clap sound which is difficult to manage with fish....keep up the good work!
Pablo Piccione:
Excelente Rendering...but, you miss the oporttunii to you expressions...again, excelent render...I liitle bit disctratcing, may be?
Ellen Erikson:
Great work! One thing I noticed though is that the main characters eyeline seams to be off between frame 180-190. The fish seams to be looking up towards the surface of the water
Yeray Díaz Díaz:
Nice animation. The main problem I see is the center character, he's way bigger and attracts all the attention. I had to see the clip a couple of times to follow the other fish to the sign. You might want to time it's move differently or move the camera to give the sign some attention.
Also, I know it's pretty tough to do, but the flapping looks a little weird to me.
Good job.
Aaron Jonas:
nice work
Chris:
Good character animation but it doesn't feel like they're swimming in water- feels like they're air-filled zeppelins.
Mike:
Excellent! A cut above the rest!
Max Rodriguez:
Nice FX works around some solid animation.
Jorge Zagatto:
Very good!! Good staging, very good poses and animation. Very interesting movements. Gongratulations!
David Shum:
nice renders xD
Tho, it took me a couple of looks to get the 'gag' in this one :P
The large movements on the female fish drew my attention away from the other one erasing "death".
Good stuff tho
Bob Dole:
this must have taken a while to render
RJay Bengelink:
excellent detail.
Aaron Clement:
Whoa, nice render! I can tell you've spent a lot of time on this... maybe if the fish were different colours would help to distinguish them better... maybe a little more exaggerated... good job, though.
Mark Turner:
I really enjoyed this piece, though I fell it may have been stronger if the shot was tighter. I think some of the expressions and mannerisms are lost in a long shot.









Animator: Steve Clarke
Description: Originally last months entry was going to be animated with fish but I didnt have time. I made time this month:-)
Experience: A tend to move back and forth between animation and illustration. around 8 years
Time taken: All in all I'd say about two days