He is better at this...

Final Rating: 4.61. Finished: 43 out of 161 entries.
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Animator: Candace Giancanelli

Description: Father defends his son.

Experience: A little over a year

Time taken: Afterwork for two weeks

Comments:

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Jeff Kim:

Interesting camera work and overall staging. I feel his head is a bit too close to the top. The lighting made it a bit difficult to actually appreciate the animation.

Overall it feels original and different from the rest I've seen. Good job!

Matt Hirengen:

Great Staging! I like the subtlety too, but he seems a bit weightless. The steps could use a lot more overlapping action and anticipation.

Carlos Chavez:

not clear on the acting...a bit hard to get what he's thinking about

Forrest:

his stances feel a bit off balance especially as he turns to face the camera. throw his weight more to one side or the other before and after the weight shift.

Jeremy Schichtel:

feels lonely, rework the camera so that it doesn't cut off his head

David Shum:

I like the setting!
I only wish you played it up even more.
It felt to me our main character is chatting about something serious outside the room, about his kid. And it would be great if we could see more of the secretive convo moments in there.
But thats just my oppinion :P
Looks good

Leon Gittens:

the movement on the left arm feels funny it does a funny arc to get to the next pose may be you hold the pose at 158 and from there go to the wall and get rid of the movement inbetween 180 to 190, may be have him step in the direction to wards the exit, nice job

chrisbyk:

I think that adding more contrast in your timing could have made it more dynamic

Florent Perrin:

Cool stuff ! It's well acted, good choice in staging. The only thing is the moment where he grabs the wall at about frame 200, I feel it unnatural. Loved the rest of your work...
You should perhaps improve the weight of the character, and the body physics...

Raasi N:

Nice subtle animation ...However a suggestion,if you could have used some medium shots / or slightly different composition to emphasise the facial expressions and body language your animation could have been far more emphatic.

Henk Kok:

Very nice work, subtle yet alive. The pose on 158 put me off though, didnt feels too big for the shot. Nonetheless very nice. Especially the pose on 242. Like he doesn`t want to be here, and is comforting himselve by grabbing the wall while he goes away.

chakravarma:

opening scene is awesome.but after that u not maintained the same tempo.

Martin Silfvast:

nice work, subtle!

Ben Harper:

Great staging! i would have loved to seen a second character reacting to him. To compensate, maybe you should move the camera in a bit closer. nice work though.

rajeshk:

Great composition.. Cud have been better, The bright BG is kinda distracting..
Nice camera dolly add to the scene.. But lack strong posing and animation to support it, Though nice try..

Andy Hass:

Wish the scene gave me more info about what's going on.

Ryan Chan:

Nice subtle camera movement. Best use of camera movement that i've seen so far and i'm almost done voting. Oh and the animation is great too =)

KristiC:

why's he point at himself on "once you acknowledge that"?

Carlos Fins:

the acting is off, but I really enjoyed the staging.

Frank G:

Excellent start pose. Very atmospheric feel (not part of my voting criteria but definitely worth noting). One of the few where the camera pan means something. I like the foot drag before the step through the door. Great effort!

Chad Swanson:

I like the staging the setting was great for the character and set the mood. It made it more dramatic. Good job putting your own touch on this months entry.

Ashwani:

good

James Fearn-Wannan:

Ooh heartfelt..