My son...

Final Rating: 5.07. Finished: 28 out of 161 entries.
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Animator: Cameron Huber

Description: A father pleads for his son to be accepted.

Experience: 8 months

Time taken: a week or so of spare time

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Igor Medovshikov:

I like the lip sync. On the "maybe " pose his shoulders should be more spread.

Jeff Kim:

The camera move is very distracting and unnecessary. Everything else looks very good though!

Darrell:

good expressions and emotion, but needs a story

Matt Hirengen:

good job! the slow rotating cam is a bit strange though.

Ed. Hull:

nice, but I don't like the slowly rotating camera position. Think best camera position is last frame and keep it locked down.

alan:

good job. a little to much twinning for my taste but overall it's good.

Kensaba:

I sugest you to check the camera, at the beginning of this shot;

Curtis:

the camera move is very arbitrary. no need I would remove it completely and focus on creating clear silhouettes with the framing you've chosen. His hands seem a little busy. I would take out a few of those hand gestures as well. Good piece over all.

Shon Stewart:

good animation. I can't see his face for half of the animation! as a view that is frustrating to me.

David Shum:

I like it.
One thing I want to point out is that I couldn't really follow his thought process thru the shot.
The last pose you have (313) seems to me he's very confident and proud of his son. However up until this point his facial acting is telling me that he's upset. I couldn't find the moment where he convinced himself that his son is gifted.

Barnabas Boehler:

Really nice work. The cam move threw me off a little bit. I almost thought it was the chair rotating around.

I would also try to break up the timing and posing on the hands. They tend to twin in a few places when they both arrive at the same place at the same time.

Alex Davies:

This is really nice, although the arms seem to be twined a lot. Maybe try off setting them just slightly!

Bill Bost:

this dialogue demands seeing the son either in foreground or background doing something, apparently his "gift", it can either juxtapose or compliment the dialogue but it needs to be there.

Martin Silfvast:

A little bit more snap in the movements would be nice maybe.

Andre de Villiers:

offset the movement of the hands so it doesn't feel so twinny... The camera move is a bit destracting. Smooth out the movement of his left hand on "..he has a gift!''

barak drori:

the camera movement is not really needed, I think, it was a bit distracting from that wonderful animation

Matt Kelly:

lock down the camera...

Renaud Déchaux:

Animation is really good, but I think the choice of the camera is not very good.
Few poses are too symmetric too and I think you have to offset some movements.

But the general animation and acting is very strong and i think, without this little default, you could win!
Great job!

Ryan Chan:

Great job! Not sure about the camera move. Doesn't need to be there and serves as more of a distraction.

Jeff Simon:

great job love the rotation

Kevin Gittens:

Keep the camera stationary, it's distracting when it's moving.

Florent Perrin:

Loved certain poses and intentions...
A pity that you tried to illustrate every single word of the text. Choices would have pushed your scene up!!
And yuor two hands are always synchronized (243, 292) , which is quite unnatural :)
But cool job !!

Raasi N:

Really cool.Only suggestion at places where he is putting both his hands on the knees with same position looks somewhat symmetric...

Matthew:

It freezes every now and then.

Ashwani:

nice work

Frank G:

There's some good stuff here. But I found the slow pan a bit distracting. Was it needed?

James Fearn-Wannan:

I think it's mostly good. Some of it seems a bit obviously pose-to-pose. And he seems to have an odd change in attitude at the very end.

Besides that, though, I like what's happening.