The Hours Clip

Final Rating: 4.94. Finished: 14 out of 27 entries.
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Animator: Jace Bandalin

Description: A female character describing a poor state of mind in a poor situation.

Experience: About 1 and a half years with www.animationmentor.com

Time taken: about 2 weeks

Comments:

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marta:

in the first part the animation is more inherent with the carachter...the second part it's, probably, not so much

Deanna Bishop:

Good stuff! Just needs a polish. Great facial reaction and gesture at the gasp.

Ryan Hagen:

Good job, I would've liked to see some better acting and some polish but without knowing how much time was spent on this I can't comment on that really.

Ryan Hobbiebrunken:

Nice! The first "no wish" may be too much head movement. Other than that, great job!

Dan Dulberger:

Think it got abit too exaggerated from the big breath to the end. Other than that it was cool.

Michael Slater:

Good posing and lip work. Nice use of suttle hand movements. Head movements at the end may need cleanup. I like.

Dwarakanath Jnaneswar Ekkirala:

I would reduce the movement of the head on "LIFE" a little bit so that we can see the expression more clearly. Since she has a tiny mouth and smallish eyes, its important that you dont move the head a lot during those "emotional" accents. otherthan that, looks pretty good!!

Aaron Clement:

Not too bad. maybe exaggerate a little more, though.

Tania Vincent:

i like the sigh and i think maybe if it was staged slightly different (move the camera maybe slightly more central)the animation would come across loads better.

Gregory Marlow:

Lip sync is pretty bad off. Nice character.

Alonso Soriano:

face works well, good contrasts good poses. Body the contrast in the emotions isn't showing in the body poses, and the body doesn't feel believably integrated with that couch enough. Body could also be more integrated with itself, so arm and head movements affect the chest more.

-Alonso

Jace Bandalin:

Nice work in getting across the suttle acting in the line, but a little more looseness and overlap would have helped.

Christiaan Moleman:

Nice work. The hips feel a bit static... think you could shift around in place a bit more. The head tilt at the end as she looks down is a bit odd I think. A smoother more straight look down might work better.

On "A life" she looks a bit cross eyed. Might want to show the white of the eye on the left eye.

John T. Coomey:

good stuff. I just reckon a closer camera angle would be better. Also shes over acting with her shoulders alittle at the start.

Christian Leon Christensen:

really like when she knots her hand before "a life..."

Gianmichele Mariani:

Some more polish needed here and there but it's a great job!

Virgil Mihailescu:

very nice looking animation. I don't understand exactly who she is talking too, or the entire context... basically, the gesture on "a life" seems to me not so motivated. but technically speaking, the animation looks awesome. not too shmoothy, not too stiff, nicely balanced, enough detail. great job!

P Walters:

That's a good start. Doesn't feel as smooth as it could be in the neck and shoulders. I'm trying to figure out where her eyes are looking, is there someone there with her?

Taber Dunipace:

Poses and animation look OK, but there's almost nothing happening visually to be interested in. Lower half of the body is practically frozen in place.

Robert Tighe:

I can feel this one. Nice overlaps and timing. Nice use of shoulders.

Ryan Malm:

The emotions expressed were very believable

Mike Courtney:

Nice anticipation. On "I have no wish" where her head moves, the exaggeration and the ease in and out could have been better. It seems to stop too abruptly.

Steven Gardner:

Lacking a wee bit on the entertainment side of things. Also the eyes seem floaty.

Ryan King:

The left arm looks alittle FK throughout, meaning it looks as though it's on the lap but when the shoulders shrug it floats alittle. The head, I know its hard with big heads, but it seems wobbly on her. Maybe tone it down a bit.

Eric Stirpe:

Verrry nice! Definitely the best one I've seen so far. I get a real sense of emotion and feeling, especially from the eye area and hand gestures! I lovve the transition through her various emotional states here: from anger, to desperation, then finally to depression.

luis veiga pumar:

lipsync is good, just needs fixing in some places and it will work well.

body needs soem work, not sure if it's the camera angle, but she doe'snt feel like she's sitting on the sofa. also poses need to be a bit stronger.

can't put my finger on it, but the eyes seem a bit strange.
this piece if worked more on could be rather good.

Dylan Maxwell:

she's saying two different things, maybe if you gave her a shift in pose or took her gaze off of her center line it'd be more compelling.

Carlos Fins:

A bit of tweening going on towards the end.. try breaking up the timing of the arms and making them asymmetrical. Looking good tho :D

Jett Atwood:

It feels a little poppy as she goes from pose to pose. I like that you're going for something more subtle...pay attention to what she is *thinking* more than what she is SAYING. Overall, not bad!