Spelling Wasp

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Animator: Eric Huelin

Description: A wasp asks an ant on a picnic table what to do with the swatted.
May competition.

Experience: Many little Flash animations

Time taken: 4 hours + Many hours tweaking

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dan kenger:

thought this was a very clever and original animation....i feel that that camera movement is a bit distracting and unnecessary.

great job tho

Ken Rice:

Nice character design - the camera movement is a little in the way though (jarring)

JAEHYUN PARK:

Nice...I think camera moving too much...You don't have to zoom in when each character say. and character need more fruid body movement. Cool job in general.

Mark Stoughton:

Nice 2D. The camera moves are a little bit distracting, cuts to face shots may have been a better choice

Andrew:

interesting animation style

Nate Lane:

cool man. It's looking very nice. It's hard to judge tho because you've really based it around this certain style, which defenitely works. I think that maybe they're a tad stiff tho, even for 2D. Loosen them up a bit, and it's look really great man!

Paul Naas:

You don't need to move the camera as much as you do. The first dolly in is good, but the moves that follow are unneccesary. Other than that, pretty good.

Juan Calderon:

I like seeing the characters, nice take on the lip sync, bees and grasshopper.establishing shot is good. I like the characters.
one thing I noticed was that most of the characters don't blink and two of the characters never blink. the performance of the characters needs work .the movement of the characters seem a little flat you need to create more rounded characters. but this style is good. you need to work on Accents and the character action. the red character needs to uncross it's hand at some point he has his hands crossed throughout the animation. the green character needs some secondary action going on, because he seems to be static.
I like the theme you have for the character. good work on the 2D animation effort

Jason Smith:

Camera movement was too much, the poses were too floaty. Great job on the lip sync.

Vanessa Blair:

Nice twist, using bugs as characters.

Jarryd:

I don't think the camera needed to do those miniature focuses for every change in dialogue.

Mayank:

cool :)

Ashwani:

awosome

Adam Giangregorio:

The poses are good, but the tweeened motion is too apparent, and is distracting. The body movement of the first and third characters is good, but the second one could use some livening up.

Brad Regier:

Good concept, how he tries to hide a secret from the kid.
Camera movements are distracting. maybe try to simplify the staging?

Ben Hatton:

Camera moves are distracting, would be better with jumpcuts. Very cute how the little one points to his eye.

Sean Graham:

Think this works as an animatic, or early stage animation, but needs a lot more fleshing out to really be a contender.

James Fearn-Wannan:

Hm. I'm not sure stretching and skewing things is the best way to get those movements across.

David Shum:

camera should follow the action/audio.
It shouldn't be anticipating the next move.

And it would be nice to see the red insect react to the kid too! Right now Red just stares at the kid, before the kid even starts to talk...

Good effort!

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