too much talking

Final Rating: 4.57. Finished: 26 out of 43 entries.
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Animator: yudhatama

Description: this bright guy try to be funny


just found this site 5 days before competition ends, so here we go...

Experience: just started

Time taken: 2 days (aaaw... not long enough)

Comments:

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Rich Lauzon:

good

C. J. Cow:

decent but i don't think i like the moving camera. IMO a bit distracting. love the darker guys pose at the end. lol so flamboyant.

Jett Atwood:

The characters are moving a bit too much which makes the posing feel mushy and overdone. It also doesn't help contrast the change in attitude so the gag gets lost.

Taber Dunipace:

The character's mouth never stops moving, as if he's chewing gum rather than talking. All of the gestures and movements are mushy and uninteresting. What is that gesture the darker guy does at the end? I have no idea what he's thinking or feeling. Study acting thoroughly and revisit animation principals to help you portray the attitudes and emotions of the characters.

Erik Griott:

interesting characters

Frank Collazo:

like hand poses

Marcos Borba Moreira:

lip sync off!:P

Virgil Mihailescu:

hehe, this is the version that I think makes most sense. congratulations! but the animation needs more work, especially the lipsync.

Missy Feaster:

Acting's a little unclear, timing's a little even, but on the right track.

Dan Dulberger:

Right guys torso is pretty floaty all through the clip. Left guy moves pretty ok until the end of the clip, where his torso stiffens.

srikar:

The idea seems there..but i felt it was slightly floaty...

Traci Plagmann:

Really good start. The timing and gesture on "wait" is right on. A lot of the movement on the character on the right is pretty floaty. It's great to keep him alive but smaller and more purposeful moves would be less distracting. I would also cut the camera move and just keep it still throughout.

Damodar V Sawant:

Lot of twining is happening ,Avoid doing same thing at same time ....

Christopher Lutz:

Maybe there should be slight break in the movements before he opens the envelope. Otherwise quite good.

Christiaan Moleman:

The poses are very floaty, the characters are constantly moving at a very even pace from one pose to another. The "mail" gesture is a good idea, but it's too slow and a bit late (though it could be that if you sped it up it would feel on time).

You do a double wavy gesture on "ethical implications". I think you only need one.

I don't get why the darker character does a dismissing gesture at the end. He's the one who said "we have to"...

Aaron Clement:

I like the look your going for. Too floaty in places. Lip sync was floaty, too. Staging is good.

Robert-Jon Eckhardt:

The script doesn't make sense in this animation. Why does he open the letter?
Also the right guy is quite expressionless through half of the animation and ends in an expression i don't really get.

Bilal Ahmad:

a good effort overall, very nice posture on the dark grey GUY on last frame

Alex Zemke:

This one stars out pretty strong! Good poses, nice composition...I'm not sure what the slow camera move is intended to reveal about the characters or the situation, but that's OK. And while we start strong, the characters' movements, and the thought process behind those movements, become unclear about halfway through.
Lots of reference, lots of planning, then make blocking/refining/polishing passes -- each through the entire clip before moving ahead -- to acheive a consistent level of quality throughout. Keep up the good work!

Matt Garward:

Overall this is very nice. There are two things I don't like about it though... the camera drift throughout is distracting, with the gray stripey lines of the background moving behind the characters. And the ending from 255 onwards... the light guy's smile looks like a fast change one from one expression to another (brows and mouth all move at the same time), and the darker guy's reaction is... weird. Seems big and kinda odd and... well, out of place. Overall the action is nice, but watch out for things life f88 where the letter is covering most of one guy's face. Good work!

Zach:

Very smooth, lip synching needs work

Gregory Marlow:

Lip sync is off quite a bit and there is very little emotion in the face. Also there are several spots where the character gestures without really having a purpose.

Also watch out for those Ik arms.

Victor Wong:

There is a volume issue with the second character that rotating the camera doesn't completely hide. Lip sync is so-so, a little too smooth and even for what's being said.

Jennifer Anaya:

i think the second half of the animation needs more time to refine, but looks promising.

David Shum:

haha funny pose on dark guy.

careful with camera moves.
You want use a camera move for a purpose.
help tell the story, reveals something....
Not just because ' you can '.
because i can be distracting.

needs some holds on lighter guy.
pretty good piece tho, just needs some cleaning up.

Winnie . S:

i feel that the right guy is kinda floaty for the whole duration? Maybe u can add a bounce or action to the left guy on 'ethical implications'.

Olivier Ladeuix:

suprise us a bit more with the fact that he is gonna open the letter. The fact he holds a knife in his hand gives it away too early.

Michael Twentyman:

pretty well done, but could really do without the goofy smile-limp wrist combo at the end.

Mike Courtney:

The poses could be exaggerated and the lip-sync improved. The interaction between them is good.