A Kidnap Situation
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Sander Kamermans:
Nice Animation, works good.
Chris de Souza:
Ha ha this one's funny! It's like Bert has gone postal trying to play matchmaker for Ernie!
Charlotte Wilcock:
wicked!
Patrick Chin:
Great idea for a situation! The bouncing head could have been a bit less though. It is a tad distracting and repetitive. Well done!
Daniel Shorten:
I like the extra context here: thinking outside the box. The gesture at the girl when he refers to her is nice.
Traci Plagmann:
I like your idea!
Ryan Magill:
acting was very good but the sync wasn't very well done. You made me laugh though w/ the situation u came up with
Jack Daniels:
Really nice job! I think though, that the mouth is too muppet / flappy like and if you're going to have her be conscious, i think she'd be panic stricken and might have a bit more urgency in her movements, rather than stare blankly and blink a few times.
Danny Garnett:
maybe add a little more acting into the girl, acknowledgment of him talking about her. Show her scared, frightened, etc.
Dhar:
Very good poses, smooth animation. Lipsync a bit chattery.
Aaron Clement:
Nice... I really like your entry... the ending was particulary good... maybe a few more eye blinks from the girl in the background... good job.
Harry G:
SMOOTH !!
kEViN:
It feels kinda weird cause he only moves in the Z direction. Maybe try adding some left to right movement in the upper body. And also, for dialogue bits it would be nice to see a character with more then just jaw open/close. I think adding some cusion/moving holds would be nice to see. Nice timing though.
Eric Huang:
haha, nice concept! :)
evan:
neat idea!
Andrew Linke:
Don't know if this was intentional but i think it's funny because the characters are bright and puppet like as if on seaseme street yet he's holding a gun so funny nice work.
kienwei80:
Really not bad. Pretty good. I like your subtle animation on his hands and fingers. Your facial expression is not bad.
Yeray Díaz Díaz:
Nice choice, I like the style but the character is just too muppet for me. Anyway some acting choices are really nice but you need to watch those moving holds, a couple of times in the clip the character stops dead. Of course, there's basically no lipsync, but you already know that. Nice job!
doc:
this one, without a doubt is the best one. the images relate to what the main character words.
the main character body is flowing beautifully. no jerks.
he feels almost human. "great job!!!!"
James:
Awesome! My favourite one so far :)
Great hand gestures, and fantastic eye/eyebrow animation going on here! Love it.
John Erickson:
niece idea and the animation is great. funny
Gregory Naud:
The girl could move just a little bit more. Maybe looking at the guy sometimes
Eun Ki:
Great idea! Body animation is just perfect! But as you know...this rig never gonna give you better lipsync nor facial expression.
Stuart Livingston:
Wow decent acting, the girl in the back seems like a statue, but hey I could really follow the blue dude. Good work, and the concept seems to apply well
Ozgur Yildirim:
Great!
David Artura:
I like a lot of it, but if you're going to have a second character, you have to add a bit more life to her. She is just sort of there.
Roger Feron:
Really nice. Good control. Could probably make him turn/look around more instead of facing forwards the whole time. There are are some nice big gestures that work well with the voice, but I think the last 2 gestures with the gun on "for me" are too strong.
Seth Taylor:
Great situation and really fine acting. Nothing but totally natural movement in this one one of the few that is not over acted. Great
Srikanth:
female character is looking very still..
Manu Järvinen:
I like really much how he squeezes his legs together in "help him in someway" :D
Emmanuel Vergne:
we can't read the "oo" shapes, is that because the character can only open his mouth and not deform his lips ?
peter wassink:
i really loved the cartoony way of acting in this one. The 'muppetshow' style lipsyncing (a limitation of the rig?) totally works here
John Cruz:
Great Peice
Ciaran:
:D good idea. Nicely set up. I really like the acting, the look over the shoulder is really good and the general pose just works really well. Obviously the mouth shapes are a bit Jim Henson-y but otherwise it's really good.
Rami Daoud:
i like it,but the woman in the background is not reacting at all, she's just blinkin?..:(
Alexis St-Laurent:
Great stuff! Really natural and funny. I like the presentation and the acting is really great. I would have liked some packground animation on the girl though. It would have been a good polish of the scene. Otherwise, nice work!
tim boggs:
excellent idea,great expressions,and follow through
Gustavo Calle:
Great job! I like the idea . However I think the lipsync is not perfect, it needs a little more work, althoug I know the limitations of the character
Bob Dole:
I like your take on this
Nanda van Dijk:
it looks like your lipsinq is about one frame to late. i like the goofy look your animation has, not yust the colors but the expressions to. nice job!!









Animator: Matthew Moore
Description: The blue man justifies his reasons for kidnapping the girl.
Experience: 4 months (within 4 years of Maya)
Time taken: 3 weeks