The Mail

Final Rating: 5.12. Finished: 21 out of 43 entries.
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Animator: Dhar

Description: The skinny guy is in a heap of trouble with the big fella and this is all he could come up with to stop him from opening the mail - unsuccessfully.

Experience: No professional experience.

Time taken: 3 weeks

Comments:

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Joaquin Bello:

nice,but sometimes its fell a little too slow, but still good

David Humphreys:

excellent!

Rich Lauzon:

Not bad!! The main guy moves a bit too much in the end but its pretty good!

Yeray Díaz Díaz:

Nice job! I'd say the poses are too obvious, meaning the flow between the current and the next needs to be smoother. Maybe some timing work too. Nontheless everything understands perfectly.

Jett Atwood:

The foreground character feels pretty good as opposed to the second guy who is overdone and constantly in motion.

miles southan:

Nice work! The main thing lacking is overlap and more attention to spacing, particularly on the hands. Also, the fingers feel stiff.

P Walters:

nice character models and textures, animation needs some work

C. J. Cow:

beautiful, atmospheric renders. when the guy raises his arm towards end i notice a weird shoulder deformation... you might want to google "cane-toad rig" and see their solution to such undesired skinning issue. the character design and textures are top notch!

Missy Feaster:

Starts out really well....timing's kinda odd at the end. Stellar with a few tweaks, though.

Theo Edmands:

The character's look fits the voice well. I like a lot of the poses especially the "stop for a moment" part and the twitch towards the end.

Victor Wong:

Movements are a little too smooth on the part of the speaker, particularly the head and neck. The sync also doesn't quite work for some reason.

Chris Smith:

Some observations:
- when he's talking, only the mouth of the Right Guy is moving; maybe consider animating hands or other body parts more
- Camera angle probably could have been better. eg. Place camera over right shoulder of the Left Guy, looking slightly down at the right guy - you may see more detail there
- Last movement of right guy's hand could have been sharper and timed a bit better. Instead of moving AFTER the "all done" verbal queue, have the hand snap up ON the "all done" queue. (start animating one frame before "ALL" and finish hand snap one frame after "DONE")

Salvador García Luque:

the models are great, the lipsync is very good, but not excellent

Justin Weg:

I like the characters!

Christopher Lutz:

Nice one! Left guy is a bit motionless.

Piotr Krysik:

Some good acting here ;) Really good job, and nothing to comment, cause I'll need to work hard to reach your level ;)

Ryan Glovka:

Not too shabby!!

Bilal Ahmad:

a real nice one! man! keep the good work up...

Taber Dunipace:

This piece wasn't too bad until the *snip* sound effect. After that, I had no idea what the character was reacting to or why he was behaving that way. Acting is a big problem in this piece. The animation quality is alright, but could still use a lot of polish.

Alex Zemke:

Strong acting choices, and i love the character models you've chosen. You've got some well-held poses here, too. But take care to see how you transition between those moments as well.

Alison K. Sanders:

Good stuff! Your lipsync could use a bit more work, and the last gesture seems a little late, but otherwise this is a really nice piece of animation. Well done. :)

Gregory Marlow:

That last gesture looks odd. Also there is a bit too much movement in the lip sync

Aaron Clement:

I like the ending. It's cool how the guy just ignors him for the most part... The guy at the start should move a little when he speaks to show it's him talking... wasn't sure at first. Feels very pose to pose... Nice textures.

David Shum:

the big guy's animation needs some cleaning.
Specifically on the cutting mail part to the walking.

haha, and i would've liked to see a change of emotion for the guy on the right. He seems happy all the way thru.


Good animation overall, just needs some fine tuning. I'm glad you took out the camera move!
Good stuff man!

Adriel Restrepo:

Great work! I really like what you did with the little guy. The big guy might still need more tweeking. In the end maybe you can just make him walk right off screen straight to the left so you dont see his arm swinging. Other than that you did very well. Looking foward to your August Entry!!

Olivier Ladeuix:

make sure the body accent correspond with the accent in the audio clip, other than that good work

Christiaan Moleman:

Watch out for IK-hands... hands sticking in place while arm and body move.

Michael Twentyman:

strange choice of characters, weird lighting, awkward movement. also seeing this exalting, upward palm gesture again which smacks of an over-embellishing stage actor. ick.

Mike Courtney:

There were points in the animation where each of the characters seem to "die" or become statues. The lip-sync seems inaccurate. The poses are the best part of this animation, but could be pushed more.

Anthony Travieso:

Great stuff. Look at the arm when they come forward after the word "wait" it almost looks like they hit a wall. I see some Squash and Stretch in the arms, but they stop moving forward after a certain point.

Max Herzfeld:

Very nice,
except the flexibility of the wrists are a bit to great.
Overall great job.