Ballet Tryouts Today!

Final Rating: 3.95. Finished: 72 out of 161 entries.
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Animator: Erik Griott

Description: This boy's dream is to dance in the ballet, but his father's humility and shame has held him back until this moment...

Experience: 2

Time taken: 2 weeks, inbetween classes

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Matt Hirengen:

good acting. the timing needs some attention though.

Barnabas Boehler:

I really like this scenario and how the father is defending the child and he gets more happy and less ashamed as the dialogue progresses.

Carol Cheng:

Good animation! The action can be more interesting to watch.

Brad Bradbury:

this is good.

140-160 that violent of a head turn
would also get some movement
into the body and spine.

At 150 his hand locks in IK. Turning the body would move and adjust that.

It happens again around 214.

At 240, the head and the hand
arrive at the same beat.

I am not real keen on the pointing finger gestures through 230-280, although thats debatable.

Watch his left arm from 290-300 it''s screaming that it was IK.

When he stands up, I'm not buying the weight on the pushoff arm.

He ending pose is very static and completely level with no real weight.

The kid's actions look good, although a bit more shoulder movement would be more convincing.

Hope this helps!!
can you get all that fixed by friday?? =P

Chad Swanson:

good job.

Frank G:

The son's reaction and his dad's increasing toughness is a nice pay off. A nice contrast in character between start and finish.