Secret Mail

July Competition Winner

Final Rating: 7.05. Finished: 1 out of 43 entries.
Next Animation

Animator: Aaron Clement

Description: Two guys fight over some mail

Experience: 3 years

Time taken: 30 plus hours

Comments:

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C. J. Cow:

hey this is realli good stuff. me like. great touch with the guy closing the mailbox.

Carlos Fins:

Nice work! The only thing that bothers me a bit is screen right char's walk from the mailbox. Feels a little floaty, but it is a difficult start from his still position, leaning on the mailbox. But this looks really good! Great expressions on the characters. I love screen right char's head shake on we have to. :)

Taber Dunipace:

Very nice with good acting choices and animation technique. I think it could've used a bit more responsive emotion on the part of the left-hand person in response to the ironic "all done." It ends a bit abrubtly too, could've extended the reaction out a bit. Overall very strong.

Erik Griott:

very nice!

Steve Sloan:

Really nice!!! i wish you added a little more to the first guy right at the beginning at frame 10, but that's no big deal. I love it when he says "ethical implications" at about 170. the poses are great!

Jett Atwood:

VERY nice. The silhouettes work, the gag works... I like how the characters aren't competing for their screen time.

Yeray Díaz Díaz:

Beautiful work! the second character moves great and the taking the mail from its hand is awesome. Great last expression on the main character.

Marty Cole:

Wow great stuff,

The two contrasting characters read really well, The snatch at "Ethical" and the waving of the knife at "We have to" are brilliant.

I have nothing to critique.

Goodluck!

Virgil Mihailescu:

I like when the right-side guy cuts the paper, hehe, cute attitude. Some of the poses are not so hot, like the guy in the left, his body in the first half of the shot, and his arms as well look a little like he's about to do something very extreme... while he only wants to cut some paper. But the animation is overall smooth and natural.

Santiago Arellano:

Good display of ironic humor, the main character displays movements acording to the age of the voice

Matt Garward:

Nice work overall, poses and attitudes are good and lip-sync feels nice. Watch some poses that could be stronger or clearer: frame 9 (knife-in-the-eye), f100 for the guy on the right (seems pretty relaxed considering his voice), f128 (get the body into the mailbox-close a bit more), f230 for the guy on the right (try to get the left hand to clear his giant head, for clarity... check that silhouette). Might have been nice to have the guy on the right take out the knife later & faster, instead of slowly taking it out... he doesn't seem to be considering ethical implications at all. :) Also would have been nice to have the left guy's hand drag on the mail a bit when it is taken, giving more of a feeling that the mail is snatched. f63 is a nice couple of poses... push their expressions more though, especially lefty. Good work!

Missy Feaster:

Beautifully subtle. :) Watch out for even tweening in some places.

Matt:

character variation would be nice

Salvador García Luque:

the first chatracters epressions are not quite well, he’s expressions doesn’t reflect the tone of voice.

miles southan:

Really nice work. His right foot shifts around frame 16 even though it appears to be supporting his weight. The walk needs work too. It feels weightless.. the hips especially need attention. The fingers on "Wait" feel like they were all animated together. The need to be offset. Check your arcs too. Watch his nose around 109.. feels pretty linear. His hand and fingers could use some overlap around 101. That was nitpicky though. That was nitpicky though. Seriously good work!

Dhar:

This is really superb. Excellent silhouette, great mix of arcs and holds, decent facial animation.

The only small thing; the cliche of pointing (of which I'm guilty). Other than that this got my highest rating.

Matt Bjerk:

you're interpretation of the action is good.

Chad Hannah:

nice idea, good body gestures, I think the character on the right needs a little more weight shift when he takes his steps.

Gabe Dill:

great work on the "resting" character... wicked good eye work... weird that they both carry knives on their person... but everything else is so good... ill take it.

Josef Sy:

very nice.

Aaron Clement:

This is my clip. No comment.

Aaron Jonas:

nice!

Damodar V Sawant:

great animation...........

Patrick:

that's the winner!!!

vic:

awesome work... cool actin stuff.

samy.oddjob@gmail.com:

hi, your animation is a little flat (especially when he walk to the letter, too smooth, too slow...), and becareful at the elbow sometime too high, but you acting is very good, and not cliche like all the other !!! good accent, good rythm, well phrases, really nice job !!!

Christopher Lutz:

Great one! Very subtle motions.

Bilal Ahmad:

a real nice smooth effort...

Alex Zemke:

Some great poses in here, reads really well! I love the hand-off, great attitude.

Gregory Marlow:

Awesome. From all I have seen thus far, yours is by far the best. Good job.

Victor Wong:

Excellent acting and facial expression. The body parts move no more than is necessary, and the sync is done well.

Jennifer Anaya:

great poses, nice acting that had a good subtle quality to them. one of the best so far!

Roshan.k:

nice subtle acting!

Rich Lauzon:

I missed this one! Oh Well! NOt bad. Good subtle acting. A bit of a tangent on the knife at the end.

Winnie . S:

i really like lefty's shaking of the head in the first second, and i feel that righty should "snatch" the mail from lefty faster on 'ethical'.

Olivier Ladeuix:

very nice work. the walk is a bit odd, you could probably enhance the up and down motion of the hips but I am not sure what is the problem.

REgarding the letter opening motion, I think it is happening a bit too early. The whole idea is to make the audience think that he really wants to think about wether it is good or not to open that letter then suprise us by finaling reading it, so stay on the previous pose a bit longer, then snap into the next one instead of just flowing.

Mike Courtney:

Good overall. A larger reaction to the letter opening would be nice.

Max Herzfeld:

Very nice, smooth and natural.
The mailbox is a very effective touch giving the character somthing to do.
Nice work.

Christiaan Moleman:

Like the secondary actions. Only thing that sticks out to me is the "ethical" expression on the right guy. Looks kind of like he's joking. Maybe fits the conclusion of the shot, but not so much the tone of the voice. Would expect a more serious/solemn expression here.