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Final Rating: 3.47. Finished: 37 out of 43 entries.
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Animator: Jarred de Beer

Description: This is my first entry, so i'm not sure what to describe. There are two soldiers on a secret mission, the one character questions their motives, the other performs the irony. I learnt a lot from the exercise, thanks!

Experience: animation student

Time taken: way longer than I think it should have, my drawing skills are improving. Around 40 hours at least

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Joaquin Bello:

the thing with the helmet its nice, but a little distracting

Rich Lauzon:

That's different! I like the helmet shifting thing

P Walters:

Wow, 2d. Nice. I would work on keeping/holding the shapes from frame to frame. I like the explosion.

Erik Griott:

the biggest issue i see here is volume. i noticed that the size of his hand changes multiple times even though his hand is stationary. also, a lot of his actions are not clear; i can't really tell what he is doing. interesting idea, but needs a lot of work.

Jett Atwood:

Now, I luvs me the 2D animation but just like 3D, work on your posing and make sure your animation isn't mushy.
Also, tone down the colors a bit...the whole thing is garish and makes my eyes hurt a bit.

Steve Sloan:

It's really not my style of animation. It reminds me of "Home Movies" or some of the older "loony toons" and i don't really like them.

Missy Feaster:

Acting is unclear due to "mushy" animation. Establish beats to your animation so that the action is clearer.

Chris:

Nice to see a 2D animation in with the bunch!

Salvador García Luque:

the animation is pretty weird and the idea is has no sense

Victor Wong:

Sync is okay. While this style of animation does encourage a breaking of the traditional rules (especially with regard to volume changing) I don't find it particularly appealing. The story it tells isn't really in sync with the content of the track, and the lip sync isn't really handled very well.

C. J. Cow:

cute drawings, and fun colors, but i dont get it?

Gordana:

The ending to me feels disconnected with the letter showing at the beginning - I'm reading it as another "moral implication".. The idea of using soldiers is funny but the overall layout in the frame is bit too busy (hills make no room for sky; both soldiers on the same depth level). You lose a lot of silhouettes from the main acting guy especially, and everything feels too squeezed in. If you get rid of the hills and push back the main character, just a bit further away from camera, things will get more spread out and read better.. keep going!

Justin Weg:

Nice to see some 2d. Cool style

Aaron Clement:

Not too bad. I always like seeing something different. The orange guy should turn his head to face the yellow guy around 135... it's almost as though he's ignoring him... fun clip, though.

Taber Dunipace:

If this is a first attempt or a beginning animator, then good effort and please keep developing and practicing. Primarily, learning to draw consistent shapes and turn them in 3D is a MUST for successful character animation.

Christopher Lutz:

Animation is quite OK. Storyline is less convincing.

Bilal Ahmad:

a good effort

Gregory Marlow:

Ummm. This one is hard to critique because it is so stylized. good to see some 2d in here though.

srikar:

didn't know what u had going here....but nice to see some 2D

Roshan.k:

it was just an idea and a try to be different.. appreciate that... :)

Jennifer Blom:

I liked it ... gotta admit he changed the topic fast. LOL

Olivier Ladeuix:

if you want to animate a character in 2d, it would help to understand your design in volume and not in term of 2d shapes. You are experimenting a lot with perspective and depth but the drawing is not solid enough to make the animation clear enough. the Helmet readjusting is a nice touch but the drawing weaknesses are too great.

David J Harmon:

don't care for this one

Max Herzfeld:

Good job, it's just loose and unfocused.

Christiaan Moleman:

Hey, 2D! Watch out that you keep your characters on model. They seem to be changing shape a bit much.

Also you're kind of constantly moving everything. Don't be afraid to hold a pose occasionally. The guy's left hand is kind of floating about in the air without any sense of purpose or weight.