I thought...

Final Rating: 4.33. Finished: 71 out of 131 entries.
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Animator: Andy van Straten

Description: Animation for 11 second club October competition

Experience: 7 months as a student

Time taken: too long....

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John Erickson:

I like the way you have his legs move with the turn toward who is he talking to. Good timing and movement with the eyes. I do see some problems with the timing. When he says 'This girl' is when he should be slappin his hand. That pose hit really early. About half way through the piece, the hands seem to be moving a bit random at times. Here they dont seem to be helping to emphasize the dialogue as much as they should.

Brad Regier:

i love that rig

Ozgur Yildirim:

Nice scene and character.

Eric Huang:

I like your poses, very natural.. I just feel like your arms are a bit floaty in some places.

Jesse Baumgartner:

Feels really soft. You have some nice poses, but if you made him hit some of those accents harder ("I THOUGHT...." AND "HELP him....), it would help a lot.

Steve Nelson:

nice, but might benefit from stronger holds.

Aaron Clement:

Nice dejected look on his face at the end... Felt a little floaty at times... the lip sync was off at the beginning... not too bad timing wise... good effort, man.

Melissa Neubelt:

great character, good emotions and expressions

Matt Garward:

Pretty nice overall. Make sure that your "M"s really show in the lips, that they're closed fully and for at least a couple of frames. That's my biggest comment, but it weakened the lip sync.

kienwei80:

not bad. I suggest you need to work more for the hands.

Kristoffer Clark:

the "i thought" part of the lip sync didn't look strong enough... good poses though

Stuart Livingston:

Movements seemed slow with little motivation, acting was poor, too much work on the model, hardly enough on the animation

Seth Taylor:

Cool but lacking snap. Might take out a couple of frames right be fore direction changes

Meaghan Arbital:

Very nice, I would move his fongers a bit more though, so they don't look too much like gloves.

Mike Courtney:

lip sync needs work, especially accenting "way" and "love"

chica:

i think lipsync could hav been much better

Simon Heath:

Tie seems to float a bit ;-)

andrea:

this is the best pose for "girl that he wants" I've seen so far. Congrats on that, I think that part works really nicely and is believable.
I think the facial expressions don't work all that good in the beginning . Where are his eye looking at? On "I thought " (f 84) the pose might look stronger when you tilt his head a little more and pull his eyes up a bit. So he is looking another person straight in the eye while opening up his heart. Also the first bit of the lipsynch seems a little weak, the breathing in and the "I" of "I thought" get lost in the big motion you start with.
The end pose (318) with the very sad eyebrows looks strong. It just stands out too much compared to the other bits. So either you make the eyebrow poses for the rest of the animations more extreme, or you take down this last pose a bit.
I like your anim a lot! Keep it going.