Crazy Napoleon

Final Rating: 4.57. Finished: 44 out of 95 entries.
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Animator: Mariya Kalachova

Description: I couldn't help myself, I know he is a little crazy and skittish but I thought it would be all part of the character, a crazy depressed Napoleon.
If you don't understand the pancakes, watch more muppets :)

Experience: Graduate from Digital Arts degree.

Time taken: 10am-4pm for about 10 days.

Comments:

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Gill Frank:

I think the timing is off!

Brent Steinberg:

the napoleon take is funny, but there are a lot of unneccessary actions here. why does he jump for the sword" and if he's so short, he sure got up there pretty easily. the fencing was random, and not necessary. he didn't need the sword to progress the scene. and the sandwich came out of left field. it started really strong, but then lost it with the extraneous stuff.

Andy van Straten:

i think trying to fit too much into such a short space of time! cool style tho

Frank Collazo:

fast, needs to stop at some moment

Niels Beekes:

Wow, this chap moves fast! Maybe a little too fast though, could have used a second of silence after the audio, cuz this sword for example really suffers from the grafity too much, haha! I think if you played it slower (without the sound) you would get some really nice acting!

Ian John White:

Funny, very snappy, I like

Tim Kings-Lynne:

the character is appealing especially in the big hat, but its overanimated and not enough time to read some poses and actions. Have a breath!

keep it up

beck veitch:

great concept, needs some work on the animation and spacing

Aaron Clement:

Wow, a lot of work has gone into this... a lot of details in there... I'll only critique on the animation, of course... There was a lot going on... maybe a little too much. Some of the movements felt un-motivated... like it was the same volume the whole way through.... needs better acting... I didn't really get a sense of who this character was by watching it.

Kamal Bhattacharjee:

Nice approach, good animation.
good attitude.
But it's very fast blending of poses. So the main poses has less frame to register on eyes.

**please add 'frame counter'

Ritwik Nag:

HA HA!!!Napoleon.That was a good one...

andrea:

great effort on surroundings and making up a story. I have the feeling its slightly overdone though. This emotional moment doesn't really come across because of all the action.

benj:

nice shading on the mirror...

Marcos Borba Moreira:

the idea is good. but i thought it is over animated

Jor:

Wow, nice character and scene. The idea is awesome, but the drawback of it is that it jumps around too fast. Other than that, it's great!

Ken Rice:

Nice render, but sorry I had to watch this twice to see what was going on.

Sunny Kharbanda:

Really really good effort! Two key moments weaken it though. One is the floaty bounce after he recovers from his fall, and the second is his reaction at the end when he screams and throws the sword up. A simpler move would have made the ending stronger.

Paul Naas:

Nice setting and characterization - polish the animation some more and you'll have a terrific clip.

Dan Dulberger:

You just had to have the sword in it, didn't you!?

sharad kumar:

Nice scene u've made up..looks great!...but with animation p.o.v you need to work more on this..its more of body mechanics than acting.

Deanna Bishop:

I like the idea, but i think there's just a bit too much going on. Perhaps if he had the sword already in his hand when he approaches the mirror? Good job.

Paulo Clayton:

Lots of exaggerated distracting movement that takes away from the performance. Lots of potential; perhaps scale it back some?

Pam:

My favorite part is the talking pancakes.
Camera moves a bit much, especially at the start.

Johnny Castuciano:

didn't really need the sword action I don't think

Spencer Jones:

Its quite nice but I felt the movements and poses could have sync up to the audio a bit better.

Will Bowe:

Good char movements, animation and concept. one crit: the more/faster overall char movement the harder it is to focus on facial movement like expressions and dialog.

Taber Dunipace:

Too much stuff going on to follow. Reduce the number of actions by at least half and then focus on making those actions beautiful.

Study the principals.

Pete Shand:

The end is nice, is just seems hes trying to do too much and it's getting in the way of the speech.

Dave Blanchette:

A LOT of extreme movement and poses. Some subtle actions would help balance the overall rhythm.

Andrew Linke:

i'm guessing it's napolean. Which is a good idea but some of his actions don't seem to match up that well with the dialogue.