The Wrong Alley

Final Rating: 5.96. Finished: 3 out of 79 entries.
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Animator: Mike Hoffman

Description: Two dogs meet in an alley somewhere in New York.

Experience: 2 years

Time taken: about 50 hours over two weeks

Comments:

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Jeffrey Lee:

Sweet, simple and great characters. I like it. I think your male character has a lot of character. It's clear who he is and what he's thinking. I think you could push the female character to let use know what she's thinking. Hope that helps. Cheers and good luck.

chakravarma:

Nice idea and execution

John Sheffield:

That's great doggy motion! Cool stuff!

Michael Cawood:

I'd have liked to see her eyes darting over to him more often, and I think the look over to him on "Thank you" could be snappier. Otehrwise, though it's a good piece. Well done.

Zee Myers:

nice secondary on the ears, and nice walk cycle!

Andy Hass:

Not bad at all! I think the timing of the characters' movements needs more texture. Right now there is a lot of even spacing throughout the motions - a few floaty moments.

sanmat shukla:

good thought

HENA:

Pretty dogs! Nice animation, i like it!

David Higgins:

Nice. I feel the dogs heads (both) could have benefited from extending he up and down head movement more.

Andrion Becker:

Hey I really like the dog characters, as well as the acting choices.some of the steps feel a little floaty though

Josh Brodsky:

Awesome work! This is definitely one of the best submissions this month. It's nice to see some quadrupeds for a change, especially when handled with this degree of subtlety and weight. The lip sync is spot-on, and the mood of the characters completely separates them from one another in personality, which is impressive as they are the same model. Her emotional take after the Alpha Dog's 'Welcome to NY' line is very impactful, illustrating a real change in her attitude and capturing the innocent read of the line very well. All this stands as a nice contrast to the cocky and jaded attitude of the Alpha Dog, especially seen in his trot off screen at the end. Great Work, and Good Luck!

Barnabas Boehler:

Awesome!

Someone's bringing out the PAWN! I like how carefree the NY dog is. This reminds me a little of Oliver and Company or Lady and the Tramp!

Great Job, my only minor thing is the overlap on the ears...maybe try to add a little more for the female...maybe that's just me though. Also the landing for the male dog might be a tad soft...but really this is awesome!@=

venkatesh:

fine good work
you should have hybroes and facials should be apply very high ok
fine

Raasi N:

Nice animation.It's good change to see canine performance.

Ran Sieradzki:

Awesome and surprising!
I love the male dog's animation, the landing has weight and balance.
Good luck!

Jonathan Asselin:

Quadrupeds!! All Right!!!

Awesome control and very very fluid animation! The only thing I see is a maybe too even rythm... But overall, that's a "super awesome" piece for me!! ;)

Congratulations!!

Matthieu Delaere:

Really great!
Not to fast or to slow actions.
It feels like real dogs. I remember that feeling from Oliver & Co.
Great

Fernando Porcel:

Really cool concept, like a lot. Perhaps a bit more eye contact between the lady and the vagabond :D, only a minor detail. The finish is really nice. Cool work! Cheers!

Paulo Cesar Biajante:

Good poses, timing and acting.

João Victor Almeida de Aguiar:

Very cool!

Daniel Tjondropuro:

good timing! good expressions on the male dog!

Chris Burel:

The jump down could probably stand to be 1 or 2 frames shorter. It feels really light.

Sean Burgoon:

The animation is good, but the acting choices aren't very interesting. Try pushing your idea more next time and make sure your characters are doing something more than just delivering the dialog. Good work though, keep it up.

Andre de Villiers:

Great stuff! Nice n' smooth.

Simon Bean:

really nice :D I would've liked to have seen a tighter camera angle for her first lines. What with her looking down throughout, we miss out on a bit of the emotion. Good job though :)

Mike Courtney:

nice work

Brad Regier:

Good acting!
A bit spliny perhaps, could be tighter here and there...
but nice and smooth.
Way to go!
bR

Daniel Huertas:

you are missing some accents on the girls' lines... the male dog is very good animated and i cannot see anything wrong with him... but probably better silouette or pose for the female one at the beginning and some head accents would make it better than it already is!

nice animation! :)

Kenny Roy:

Excellent acting, especially considering you took on quadrupeds. Well done. I would say she could use some weight work in the beginning half, if you wanted to improve this.

Omri Navot:

nice walk cycle on the male dog. The female dog doesn't do enough acting; the poses could be more interesting

Jasmine Bobe:

Every thing looks great, but seems a bit stiff.. like the characters could loosen up a bit..

Mayank:

good work

Sunny Kharbanda:

Good job on the 4 legged walks, but you have to realize that walking isn't critical to this scene - it's the emotions of the characters, being conveyed through the way they stand/sit and their body language. For example, the woman's dialogue has a lot of nervous energy, but your animation for that character is relaxed and smooth. You could cut back on the walks and spend that time on the poses instead.

Cameron Huber:

Pretty cool!

This is the first time I've really seen the AM dog rig on it's own speaking, and I think you've pulled it off pretty nicely. Be careful of some of the movements feeling a little floaty, like when she takes her first step or him about to jump off the box.

My main crit would be to just push things more, especially in the male dog. At the moment it's a tricky to really gauge their character, apart from their emotion and gender.

Keep at it! Nice one!

asif:

Hey cool quadraped is a great effort, i liked it.

deepak:

amazing!!!! ive never tried with an animal and i guess that would be hard.

Ashwani:

nice work man

Mark Persson:

Very good work.... love the idea of dogs! Very good body lanquage on both characters. And very good face expressions. Averall... it actually feels like they are alive and express of what they are thinking....

The lipsync are good and working, but still feels too simple. If you could get more mouth variation between closed, smal and large opening. like how to express: M, L, O, B, P, F.....ect.
I think that if you could get some more fix on this it would make it much better.

Keep up with good work!

Kent Wong:

nice animation, but the dialogue doesnt seem fit with the dogs to me...