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Captive
by Chris Welsby
This is my take on the audio file, It could do with a bit more polish but I ran out of time!
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Joshua
Good animation, but the scene doesn't quite fit the audio so it's a little hard for me to feel connected to the scene and animation, when by the end it feels like it's taken 3 steps too far to the dark/morbid side of things.
Richard Clark
Interesting setup you have here! Nice camera compositions you have!! Love the characters! They don't seem to go with the environment, though. Nice chain animation with the cuffs!
The male character's left arm pops at frame 230. Even if that hand is coming down to brace its weight on the leg, the arm still wouldn't pop like that.
Lip sync could improve. Example: on "destructive" the phonemes are not well defined here. I think you're missing the "r" mouth shape.
Around frame 240, the male character's motion just stops...there's no follow-through.
Around frame 260, the female characters body when it settles back against the tree; there is no offset with her spine and head even though you have the head rotating a bit after, it's mainly in the spine and neck that needs the offset.
Antonio Marulevski
That's just the perfect aesthetic for the sound. I hope it wins.