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What's wrong with you?

by James Beardsell

Final Rating: 2.89. Finished #211 out of 231 entries.

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Animator

James Beardsell

Experience

2 Years currently learning BA animation at Leeds College of Art

Time Taken

3 weeks

Description

One guy does not understand why the other guy is a vegetarian and questions him about that.

Comments

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Adrian Winchell

The animation rule "show, don't tell" seems to be reversed here - the big flashy words and graphics in the background distract from the animation and make it hard to watch the acting. You've got a good sense of the poses here, and I could see them timed and scaled to work really well, but in this version they float a lot, and seem to be trying to out-shout the background, particularly the "NO MEAT" gesture at around 220-230.

Lucas Donaldson

Character movement looks off. I like the background images though.

James Hornby

you seem to be hitting accents which is nice but sometimes the characters seem to be moving for no other reason than to just move them. I would suggest hitting poses on the accents in the dialogue instead of having their limbs floating constantly

Richard Adams

The added graphics were strange, like a TV ad. *shudder* Decent animation otherwise.

Yanick Belanger

Not sure what the gestures are for. The texts appearing in the background does not add anything in my opinion. The animation is surely a good start though, the poses are great. You might need some polish so the flow from one to the other is better