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Final Rating: 6.29. Finished: 10 out of 131 entries.
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Animator: michael elder

Description: shot lots of acting reference, used elements of a few different takes. Blocked it all out in stepped key mode..refined it in linear key mode then hit smooth!

Experience: 3 yrs

Time taken: after work hours for around a week then almost an entire weekend.

Comments:

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Daryl Marples:

Great acting. Very natural.

Brad Regier:

He moves in a very natural manner. Good acting!

Jack Daniels:

Really nice, lip sync seems off though...

Matt Kenley:

very nice, very natural poses, nothing unique but its obviously very well done. Good job

Chris de Souza:

Very nice subtle posing and acting in this one!

Matt Johnson:

Really good character development. He genuinely feels distressed over this.
Only thing to watch is to lead with the shoulders then the elbows and then the hands.

Matt Garward:

Really, really great work. The movements and poses are great and non-cliche... the action on "girl" and the hands-behind-hips pose are really awesome. VERY natural-feeling.

My critique would be on the face & mouth-shapes... I think you could push those further, especially the 'O' shape in "know", the word "maybe", the last 'E' in "me". Also be sure to get more of the overall expression and emotion into the mouth & brows, they feel a bit static in terms of overall shape & feeling. Really show if he's angry or frustrated, etc... get some change in. The tensing in the sniff is good, but I want more from the face. The body work is fantastic though. :)

Gregory Marlow:

Looks really good. Lips sync could use a little more work but otherwise nice.

Gino Garibaldi:

Nice. The lip sink is a bit floaty IMO. Great job.

Andrew Stovesand:

Love it when the arms flop at his side...

Sue Houston:

Great job! I love your gestures.

Eddie Chew:

awesomeee.... i like how its subtle and and poses arent so exaggerated...nice work

Jesse Baumgartner:

Nice natural movement. I'd like to see the arms straighten a bit more at some parts. Particularly when he brings them down. Just to add a bit more weight to them.

Aidan Martin:

- Add more eye darts.
- Going to be cool.
- Lower iggy so he's resting on his tail.

Ryan Magill:

nice natural movements. One thing realy bothers me though. It seems like his head is constantly tilted to the left (his right) It almost looks like he would fall over in some frames.

kEViN:

Nice. I generally like to see poses that are pushed a bit farther but I like how natural this feels. It's a little stiff here and there but not bad overall.

Eric Huang:

Nice natural actions/poses going on here, nice work on the subtleties.

david vecchio:

GREAT acting

Ritwik Nag:

Gr8 acting man!!!

david arthur:

awesome

Michael Cawood:

Great work. One thing I noticed though is that the eyes look wrong. It’s probably got more to do with it being play blasted instead of rendering but he has a glazed over look that is ruining the sense of him focusing his eyes on who ever he’s talking to. Anyway, it’s a really good… very realistic (did you have live action reference by any chance?).

Ozgur Yildirim:

I like the poses. But the animation looks little bit floaty.

samy.oddjob@gmail.com:

nice animation need a lot of work on acting but nice animation

Kristoffer Clark:

good acting

Nate Dorn:

he seems maybe a bit to happy. other then that its a pretty goodjob

Pete Y:

work on the expression

Teju Aloysius:

hey friend i like the way you chose the style of the animation... its good that trying something different.....and i should say that ..actions are kinda repeating. yup of course i appreciate your work. good job man.

Aaron Clement:

Nice job Elder... the hand actions was great... really nice weight... good job!

David Bokser:

the acting looks really nice - especially on "girl that he loves" but I don't think you're hitting the motion enough with his facial animation.

Tom Law:

He seems to be shifting his wieght a little bit to much, other than that this is great.

Dan Dulberger:

Really great and natural. Perfect amount of movement. Great eye contact. Great everything!

Jen:

The posture, lips, expression are all good! The only suggestion I have is to pull your 's'es a little stronger but this is still one of the best entries I've seen yet

Rajesh Gupta:

try to change expressions i.e. happy to sad.

Nanda van Dijk:

this animation almost looks like mocap. great realistic animation!

Giovanni:

I specially like the way you managed hips and the general relaxed posture. Bravo!

Paul Borawski Jr.:

Love 95% of it! I think the lip sync need some work on the mouth shapes and the ending pose seem odd to just leave it with his mouth open like that.