Living a Life
June Competition Winner
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Dwarakanath Jnaneswar Ekkirala:
lips can move a bit more for me.. and eyebrow shapes can be pushed.. but i donno this rig or its limitations.. over all looking good.. one thing that caught my eye is the fast eyedarts in the middle.. they are just back and forth and too fast IMO.. other than that.. looks great!
Clayton Miller:
Great job! The mouth and eyes could be pushed a lot more I think.
Kai Huai:
I think its nice and subtle..but the ending can push further. she doesnt seem like she has no wish to live.
Yeray Díaz Díaz:
Great job overall!
Ryan Hagen:
I would've had her looking down a bit at "Town" . That would've made it feel like she wasn't talking to someone over there, but overall I liked the clip. Good job.
Deanna Bishop:
Awww makes me want to cry. Great acting! Great ease in, ease out of poses. Great job.
Ryan Hobbiebrunken:
Sweet! Very nice! I love it!
Shahbaaz Shah:
Subtlety is great, the acting is working for me, I would say something about the mouth shapes (F's V's) if I hadn't worked on the same rig and knew how much of a pain it is! :) Great piece.
Brad Bradbury:
This is brilliantly subtle.
Awsome work.
lol. I think almost too subtle
for the overacted 'breathy' section
at the the end of the dialog.
I would punch up the expression in her brows and open her heys and mouth more at the end.
Dan Dulberger:
The hand gesture (which I think is a sort of "I got it on the tip of my tounge gesture") at the start doesn't seem like something one would do when this depressed and when one already knows what to say.(Shes probably been depressed and known exactly why for a long time and she isn't pressed for an answer so no need to search for or gesture that shes searching for words). Other than that nice.
Eric Luhta:
Nice subtle animation! I wish you would have pushed the face more though. But overall I like this animation a lot.
Anthony Travieso:
This looking great just some small things. The fingers on the right hand do not really move that much especially when she slides them over. You should delay them a bit because then are rubbing on the surface of the table. Also i would add a little more movements in the cheeks just to give her face a little more life.
Isaac Hingley:
Excellent job. Definitly one of the top shots if not #1. The lip sync is a tiny bit off right now in a few places. Rook has a really difficult mouth to work with though and I think you did a great job with it. good luck :)
Hector Lopez:
Very nice. I just feel like you could of pushed the mouth shapes a bit more in certain words of the dialogue. Everything else is fine.
Matt Garward:
Really nice, simple action, the slump at "no wish to live in" was a nice choice. watch your 'O' and 'oo' shapes, on "no" and "to", try to push the lips more to bring those out. the brows are a bit too symmetrical, and the lids may be a bit too sculpted, giving the upper lids an unnatural shape & feel. otherwise I really loved it.
Lauren Wells:
Awesome work here! This feels super sincere. Seriously cool. One teensy lil note: At the very end when she does that final blink, her screen left eyelids close really high up and it feels a touch unnatural that she can get that bottom lid up so high. Great job!
Dan Segarra:
Well done. The posing really sells what she's feeling and you didn't over animate her exasperation. I think you handled the audio nicely. I believe she sincerely feels what she's saying. Nice job. ;)
I think you could have been a little more subtle with the glare in her eyes... it's kinda' distracting.
Nenad Mitrovic:
Great work, I especially like the sigh..
Aaron Clement:
I like the subtlies.
Gregory Marlow:
Eyes are too reflective and I think the lip sync is a bit too simplified. Maybe add a little extra detail. Other than that It looks pretty good. Good Job.
ArunVijayan:
acting is ok....but lipsync is not good...so plz try to improve in that part....
Alonso Soriano:
Strong. Pretty render, shiny eyes. Great FT/OL on the fingers. Nice breath and life in the torso (though it's partially hidden by the render/shadows. Technically animation looks great, her body moving and being connected and all. Performance wise I think the brows could be pushed a little further, the mouth defintely a little more contrast, and I think you went a little bit overboard on the eyelid shapes. Main concern though is that it's not clear who's she's talking too, maybe multiple people, or maybe shooting her thoughts off in random directions (stronger to choose direction, plus a second for looking internally)
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John T. Coomey:
Really nice work.. Just drop the reflection on the eyes. Its very distracting. The eyes are the windows to the soul not a reflection of the dinner table.. :) some really nice acting ideas
Christiaan Moleman:
Love the blink at the end. I think she could sink into the table more at the end, like really drop the shoulders and lower the head... perhaps intensify the facial expressions a bit.
Alex Zemke:
Not bad at all! Nice weight in these simple movements, great expression and acting choices...and for such a short turnaround time, very polished! Very believable, great job!
P Walters:
You've got some very nice movement going on. I like the breathing and the finger movement. Could maybe push the phonemes a bit further, they don't seem as strong as they could. Nice job!
Jeranimo:
Good job! I like it. Keep up the good work. :)
miles southan:
Great job! The lip synch could use some work though. Watch out for elbows intersecting the table also.
Virgil Mihailescu:
the body animation is great!! I love the movement during breathing. the facial animation is too shy though, and the lipsync is a little off at the end. overall though I like it a lot. the acting feels natural.
Pascal Immerzeel:
The tears are a nice touch :-). Subtle animation is good. Love it.
Taber Dunipace:
One of the strongest pieces represented here. Could have used some secondary action on the fingers, which are frozen for most of the audio.
Robert Tighe:
It's great except for the lip sync. I would push the mouth shapes more.
Mike Courtney:
Nicely done, I would choose a more contrasting background so the character doesn't lose itself in the stagging. I would have liked to see a bit more animation on the fingers, especially the right hand.
Carlos Fins:
Lip synch can be pushed, but given the small time to work on, it's looking good.. nice, subtle animation very fitting for the audio. This is one of my favorites. :)
Ryan King:
This is really nice. it is subtley and not distracting from the character. It could stand for a little better composition because all of the negative space is behind her when it should be in front, unless you imagined someone coming in from behind to console her afterwards.
Kyle Mohr:
I like your poses, nice timing too. I think pushing her facial expressions further and defining her lip sync more (more open vowels, and more definite consonants) could really strengthen this piece.
Good work!
Eric Stirpe:
Oooh, very nice "understated" quality here. Very real and emotive. Especially those eyebrows.
Damodar V Sawant:
nice work
Erik Griott:
i really enjoy this piece. there is something hidden about her which shows itself in her smile.
its not over animated. it subtle yet powerful. keep up the good work!
luis veiga pumar:
body language and movement is good. some of the lipsync needs fixing feels like some movements are out of time by a few frames. other than that nice..
Dylan Maxwell:
body poses are nice but the face is stiff and doll like. Break her down with emotion. Let her be inconsolable.
Peter:
nice animation. :D i think the body animation is great. But the facial could be pushed a lot more.
Jett Atwood:
The poses are obvious and generic and overall it feels really stiff.
Try acting it out...think about what the character is THINKING more than what she is SAYING.
Jason Campbell:
Good work with the body emoting to the words, nice work with the hands, really just need polish on the lip-sync
Eric Scheur:
Wow. Very very nice work here. Very subtle acting, and I totally get her emotions! I like your blinks, too. :) (though I think that the eyelids might be shaped a little too much... there shouldn't be _as_much_ of a double-arc in them)
There are some elbow pops, and the fingers and hands could use a little more polish (especially the hand on the table, so it doesn't just feel like a frozen doll's hand)...
But overall, this is very very impressive. Nice work!









Animator: Eileen Kearney
Description: With so much emotion in the voice, I wanted to keep it simple and subtle.
Experience: still learning :)
Time taken: 2 weeks