Giant

Final Rating: 4.78. Finished: 16 out of 27 entries.
Previous Animation
Next Animation

Animator: Chris Caufield

Description: setting is a giant in a small town, dying to escape! wish I had more time

Experience: 2 years

Time taken: 20 hrs

Comments:

(Commenting only available during the rating period)

M.Bell:

Sorry to be blunt but I'm trying to keep my All my comments short

Stronger acting choices are needed overall. That being said, the animation during "In a town I have no wish to live in" I think suited the duologue a lot better than the choices you made in sections.

Dwarakanath Jnaneswar Ekkirala:

shoulders seem a bit stuck.. may be you can animate them more.. also, some "C" and reverse "C" shapes would add a lot to this piece. Also, I dont like the profile face and straight body in the end.. may be you could turn the face just a bit towards the cam.. Keep going man!

Clayton Miller:

Good job! His left arm though could use more movement, just so it doesn't hold completely still.

Deanna Bishop:

Great job. There should be a godzilla moment at the end of this piece where he distroys the town. :)

Ryan Hobbiebrunken:

Poor Giant! haha Pretty stiff yet! Keep workin at it! Good job!

Kai Huai:

hmm .. is that a car tahts moving behind.. distracted by it.. ^ ^

Dan Dulberger:

Nice animation, I'm not sure about the acting though. :)

Michael Slater:

I like the facial animation. The arms seem a little static. Good work.

Lauren Wells:

Her facial expressions at the end of the clip "a life I have no wish to live" feels really nice. I like how she closes her eyes. The first arm gesture feels a little disconnected from her body. Maybe you don't need that first gesture at all or you could really tone it down. Both her arm poses on "I have no wish to live in" feel a little stiff and twinned as if she's holding them out from her sides rather than letting them hang naturally. I think you don't necessarily need the little white car in the back ground drive up the frame because it actually distracts me from her performance. Keep it up! :D

Frank Collazo:

great

Aaron Clement:

Haha, I like the concept. Watch the twinning. maybe a little lowser in places.

Alonso Soriano:

attack of the 50 foot woman? :)

The first gesture has a decent arc, but I don't believe where/how it lands, feels a little weird that it doesn't come in closer to the body. The background is a little distracting/busy. Lip synch could be a little tighter, more wide narrow contrast, more ooh's, make the f's more obvious. The acting choices on the 2nd line are big, kind of vaudivillian, nothing in the setup/camera suggests to me you are purposefully mimicing that, so I think in this case you just hammed it up a bit much. The head works well on it's own, but the hands are a little distracting from it. The left hand is pretty stiff.

-Alonso

Jace Bandalin:

Nice work with the tension in the beginning; the second half felt a little stiff for the dialog, holding the pose with the hand up, but it still read clearly. Well done!

Christiaan Moleman:

The composition would be better if the character was more off-center and the background is a bit busy and distracting. Animation-wise I think you could loosen up the shoulders and upper arms... The final pose is maybe a bit theatrical. I like the resigned eyeroll on "town" though...

Derek Mabson:

Animation is well done. Nice idea. Acting is good.

John T. Coomey:

Watch the body. The torso freezes when it hit a pose. Make sure to keep everything moving but also make sure the movement makes sense and is moving as a unit with all limbs.. some nice facial stuff going on

Gianmichele Mariani:

body mechanics !

Virgil Mihailescu:

the acting is ok, but a little generic, and that gesture before "a life" is vaudeville. the building idea is ok, but... not the most logical. the facial animation is more interesting, and the lipsync looks quite nice (although it's off towards the end).

P Walters:

Seems a bit like parts of the body are too separate from other parts, like the Right arm from the body in the beginning. The back would move with that arm. "No wish to live in" looks good, I like that movement. "A life I have no wish to live" seems a bit overly dramatic. Good work.

Taber Dunipace:

Very funny melodramatic interpretation. I would've been unhappy with this performance if I hadn't seen that it was purposeful. The body is frozen durring the very first gesture and the head and hands do some odd quirkly movements and non-movements.

Mike Courtney:

One of the more unique stagging I've seen this month! The pose where she is looking down could have been stronger. The left hand seems almost lifeless. Nice job.

Scott Edelman:

I think that the background in this video is distracting from the character acting you have going on.

Eric Stirpe:

Hehe, funny idea, funny idea.. I like the weight on that last pose; and the melodrama of it is funny, but it doesn't really match the tone of the beginning..

Erik Griott:

once it hits the sigh it gets too dramatic compared to the beginning

luis veiga pumar:

backdrop is very strange, ignoring that, first part of the lipsync is good, the rest needs work on. the sigh and pose feels late.

end pose is weak, charcter should be hunched or something, not standing straight.

Dylan Maxwell:

it's funny, a little bit shatner at the end.

Peter:

heh heh, interesting acting choice at the end there. :D His left arm feels stiff, though. :( Also trace arcs and spacing (especially on right wrist and tip of the nose) to make sure arcs and nice and spacing changes are gradual.

Jason Campbell:

Needs work on the shoulders and chest to feel the breathing and weight on her, and with the lip sync.

Jett Atwood:

The poses are floaty as well as overly dramatic. The line is very subdued and internal that doesn't require wild arm gesticulations.