Dwarakanath Jnaneswar Ekkirala:

looks great! may be too many blinks for my taste.. body could use slightly bigger movements, IMO.. kinda looks like all the accents are up and down.. a bit of forward and back might have helped but im not sure.. this looks so good, yet something i cant point out is a bit off.. great stuff andy.. rock on man!

marta:

why?!

DanieleScali:

very good but..... were is the lyp-sinc

Yeray Díaz Díaz:

why the face mask? The eye and head movements seemed nice, too bad can't see the mouth...

Clayton Miller:

Good job, I think? I wish you wouldn't have covered up the mouth, or at least put more in there to give a reason for covering it up. Since it is covered, pushing the eyes a lot further would have been better.

Deanna Bishop:

Beautiful eyes! So much is said throught them. Great darting and well timed blinks. I love how you kept the rest of the animation simple. This dialouge is easy to overact. Nailed it!

Adam Levin:

The eyes have it.

Chris Caufield:

I wanted to see the lip synch

Ryan Hobbiebrunken:

Like a few of us said on your post, it might have worked better if we could see the mouth because everything else is sweet! Awesome job!

Shahbaaz Shah:

Some of the best eye animation I've seen so far, but I really don't think you should have covered the mouth. It looks like there's great stuff happening under there I want to see it! But very nice.

Dan Dulberger:

It's really good even without the lips.

Brad Bradbury:

great eyes and brows.
I dont understand the facemask.

Eric Luhta:

I think the facial animation is really nice but then its ruined by the mask. Maybe if it moved like the jaw and completely covered the mouth it would help, but with an animation this short there isn't any time to establish why the character is doing something so unusual. More up and down, forward/back in the body to push it more too, kind of feels like her head is glued to the top. But click off the mask visibility and it would add 3 stars to this.

Anthony Travieso:

I comment on this before this is awesome what have you going on in the eyes and brows is super i just wish i could see that thru out the face.

Gordana:

Very expressive eyes and overall good facial acting.. I think you could have made a more creative use of the little mask, if you really want to use it. Maybe she starts talking with it on and then, after the first line or so, she pulls it down.. The mask helps me to put this character into a specific situation, so I personally like it.. As it is though, I'm afraid it may take away from the performance, rather than helping out.. good job!

Steve Sloan:

i find the mask really took away from the performance.

Isaac Hingley:

I realy like how you sold this on almost completely with the eyes. nice job. It would be nice to see a bit more movement in the body it kinda feels locked in place right now. Also the head seems to bobble just a bit towards the end.

Florent Perrin:

Yahou! Acting is very sober, very efficient. It's minimalist and works fine! Your character is so alive...
Congrats!
And I love those Animation Mentor puppets!

Dan Segarra:

Nicely animated, although the mask just feels parented to the head... lessens the whole believability of your piece to me. Very nicely done besides that.

Ryan King:

um. There may be a reason for covering the mouth. I can still see you animated the mouth but for the purposes of this exercise is seems odd. I'm sure it was done to show that good lipsynch is recognizable in the face not just the mouth, but not everyone has a 5star rig. Personally I would have liked to see the mouth for the sake of the exercise.

Aaron Clement:

Hmm, not sure about the gag... the rest is good.

Kyle Mohr:

Pretty good facial expressions in the eyes, and nice choice of accent points in the face. I'm not sure the mask is helping you out, I assume that she's sick and that's why she feels so bad, but in this case I think it is kind of obstructing your animation potential. Plus, it's a pain to rig that mask so it moves with her jaw ;)

So, good job on the face, I like how she looks around as she speaks, and down at the end. I would have liked to have seen more full body acting, even just leaning forward and back woudl add a lot. But anyway, keep up the hard work, and good job!

Lauren Wells:

The eye animation is awesome! I just wish I could see the mouth! Really good facial here.

Traci Plagmann:

Great job on the eyes, eyebrows, cheeks - and awesome sigh. I wanted to see more though - I wanted to see that lipsync too! It looks like it would have been great.

Gregory Marlow:

I like it. Very interesting idea. I also like the distinct lack of overacting.

Jace Bandalin:

Very nice approach on this shot! You've done a great job on giving some overlap to smooth up the whole animation to where you don't need a lot of action or movement to sell the dialog. Great job!

Ryan:

Awesome Job! Beautiful facial animation.

dan barker:

Great facial...the fact that the mask doesn't move at all is really distracting though...maybe lose the mask..or set it up so that it moves with the face!

Jamie Giger:

I think I'm not getting the joke or something but what's up with the mouth eye patch?

Alonso Soriano:

Gotta say that looks like a pretty blunt way of avoiding a lot of careful lip synch. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be a surgical mask, or a gag put by kidnappers, or just a thing to hide the lips like a black bar in post could have done. You'd have gotten more stars without it, especially since it looks like you have the skills, everything else looks really nailed, eyes and lids and brows and head and body and cheeks(props on the cheeks especially) all rock. Only comment is the torso maybe a tiny bit more life to it. But the mask, you moved the cheeks but not it... not your best choice.

-Alonso

Gao:

Love your acting, I like it that her pupils constricts when before she says "a life", really great stuff.

Could we see a version without the mask as well?

John T. Coomey:

Whats with the mask..Is she a doctor or a bug exterminator. You've some really nice stuff going on in the face but is only taken from by the mask.

Christiaan Moleman:

It's really cool that you're doing so much with the eyes here, but since you do animate the jaw as well I think you should have at least some shifting and perhaps scaling on the mouth cap.

Christian Leon Christensen:

great work on talking with the eyes and face.

miles southan:

Seems like an odd choice to confine your animation to the face but then cover the mouth.

Virgil Mihailescu:

hahahaha, where's the mouth???
even if we can't see it, it's sort of visible... that the lipsync is ok. I like the head and eye animation a lot! and the subtle squash and stretch. actually, the facial animation, despite the mask, looks great! the only thing is not clear is... the context. but it's cool that we're free to interpret... I mean, it's obvious that something IS going on.

Taber Dunipace:

Facial mask is definitly not good. It adds nothing, it doesn't move witht he lips or jaw, it distracts from the facial expressions, and it hides the lip-sync. Gestures are very weak, the body doesn't move at all except for once durring the breath.

Pascal Immerzeel:

Why cover the mouth!?
The jaw pass looks great. Facial animation looks good.
Good feeling for muscle work.

Mike Courtney:

The head movements are nice, and it's nice to see the breath. The body becomes unnaturally still at the end. I'd have love to see a full body animation of this where her lips could be seen.

Wesley Ferino:

your body animation is good just wish we could see your lip synch.

Carlos Fins:

That mask is driving me nuts! You have such a solid performance behind it.. and it adds nothing to the character. It doesn't react to the characters face movements.. it's frozen there.

David Shum:

Beautiful.
I'm not sure if the mouth guard was because of poor lipsync, or just for more emphasis on the eyes, but I like it!
Nice work dude.

Scott Edelman:

What's with the muzzle? Is it to make the lip synch easier?

Eric Stirpe:

Umm, I wish the mask wasn't there because I feel like you did some good lip-syncing.. there's not really much else to comment on though, because you didn't show us anything besides the head, so it's a little dull...

Damodar V Sawant:

first U have done good job by selecting the camera angle,so U did not worry about animating the hands,But doing so ur only limiting urself from animating good shots ,also U covered her mouth ,so not to take trouble animating lips...I know that u have coved it for the sake of the story.. but u should have taken some other prop to show her ill.But from her body language she does not look she is ill coz her body movements are too snappy!could be little subttle,I like the expressions very much

luis veiga pumar:

if this is an experiment in just facial expressions then my comments are begging eyebrows are good but sigh is weak, and after that her eyebrows seem to act the same as the beginning.

Otherwise than that, obviously with the mask on, can't crit on lipsync, if it isn't an experiment in facial expressions then i'd be feeling like this person is trying to be clever and it does'nt work.

Erik Griott:

why is her mouth covered?

Dylan Maxwell:

Great emotion. I like the pose, but it's a little too still. I don't mean to make it pose-y like so much gestural stuff. Maybe a weight shift would be good.

Han Hu:

Very nice expressions on the eyes. Wish I can see her mouth though.

Brian Nicolucci:

Nice work with the limited motion you have added in, especially on the "no wish" part.

Praveen Varghese:

it would have been more fun to watch, if the mask was out from the mouth, and make it be on the screen to 'notify' the profession.. what i feel is: you would've hung the mask on neck or like.. any ways, that was pretty nicely done, especially the eyes and the brows accompanying... congrats.

Jett Atwood:

I'm not understanding the point of the face mask, but the emotion of the line comes through really well with the eyes and the subtle head motion.
It really does feel like the character is *thinking* as she is delivering the line...not just speaking.