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Thank you Phil Davis!
by Tai Beaumont
The devil is on speaker phone with somebody he hates.
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Stéphane Sartori
Very good animation.
My only note would be when the second person replies at around frame 129, when he looks up, it is misleading as it made me think for a second that the second person was in front of him. I know he is clearly looking at the phone before then (which is not fully in frame and therefore not easy to look at because I was mainly looking at the devil's face.) But if you were trying to show the devil was getting angry when the second person replied, I believe you could make him go towards that pose later and stay there for a shorter time. Maybe make him look a bit more to the right so it's not too central. And maybe reposition the camera so the phone is in the safe frame.
Alberto Fernandez
The most noticeable thing to my eyes is that at the first half the hands/fingers look like mirrored and it takes me a bit off the acting. You could force som poses to make them less symmetrical, as you have a front view of the character. Take for instance 210. Also, sometimes the antics are not strong enough, but that's perhaps just my opinion.