The Votes Are In!

Just barely reaching 10th place with a rating of 6.59, guess have to try harder. After not watching it for the past 2 weeks and seeing it again with a fresh eye, I could see all the mistakes and wish I held some poses longer here and there to give it a bit more snappiness and added some subtle gestures etc. Currently it flows too linear from one pose to another which is one of my weak points in animation.

Well what's done is done, move on to the next one and try not to repeat the same mistakes....... like being hypnotized by the previews and believing that its the best work eva! ... because its never, there's always something to improve on.

Below are some of the more interesting critiques to consider, the Break Downs and Final.

Daniel P. Lane:

Great subtleties! Nice, clean motion. Very, clear staging and silhouette. Feels like he might be missing an antic before "and better still" I like how he interacts with the prop and the hand gestures. It might be cool if he does a little extra somewhere maybe thumbing the plane back and forth while he looks at it and thinks. Also, maybe at "well it's..." he could to a little side-to-side head shake as he finds the words to describe the experience. Over all I think you're matching the energy of the scene and character very well. Good job :)

~(Did do subtle thumbing in the beginning, guess not clear enough)~

Sam Caudill:

Very good! My only critique (and this is really nit-picky) would be to make the left hand arc for "see 'em fly" snap on fly instead of flowing into it.

M. Strohbehn:

Well done. His expressions appear genuine. From 80-120 it gets a little busy with hand motions. Love the juke box in the background and the setting.

~(I was afraid that was the problem, tried to hide it and some one caught it, proves that you can't get away if something just isn't working right)~

Richard Vaudrin:

Nice! I like the psychology of the character, great poses all the way through.

~(This would be the deepest critique I've gotten, thanks!)~

And to the rest who commented thanks for the feedback.

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Break Down
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Final Animation
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Funny that nobody commented on the Eye Dart at frame 167. Initially there wasn't any but I decided to add that in just to add some small antic/details to break that monotonous head turn from looking at the plane all the time to the bar tender with the Front Profile, it also gave off a bit more mystery to the character like to question if he was really sincere or not.... maybe that's what Richard Vaudrin's comment was about.

Way Behind.

Lots of excuses and procrastination, besides that had to send dog to vet a few times the past week as well as make a round trip down to JB and back on the same day.

Anyhow, I've still got 50% of animation to be done for 11sec May competition in the next 10 days, another scene of Reservoir Dogs to study by this week and my monthly animation practice to be done, not to mention reading up more and doing more figure studies. Looks like I have to study overtime the next week.

Just some rough sketches and thumbs for 11Sec May :




Will be posting work progress at the end of the month.

House is still in one piece, changed a living room light bulb if anyone's interested.