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The Minibot

by Alicia Meredith

Final Rating: 4.16. Finished #73 out of 164 entries.

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Animator

Alicia Meredith

Experience

roughly 6 months or so

Time Taken

2 weeks

Description

Who knew minibots could run on plutonium!

Comments

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Nassim Briedj

good one i liked the begining and the hand contact with the robot but the last action needed more dynamic and expressive gestures

Danny Kneip

There really isn't much variance in expression for this character - his inquisitive nature is only audible. If you weren't going to animate a second character, you might have considered "Marty" handling the robot. It puts a little more meat on the bone. As it is, we're looking at someone looking at something. The lip sync is good in places but falls off in others.

You have a good foundation and I insist that you continue pushing yourself to do more in your animations.

Ian Alexander Hanson

Nice concept and some poses very good.

Floaty in many places, watch fast and slow, watch arcs. Use much more speed and distance on last action.

Gabriel

Use more holds

Michael Kristiansen

Ok animation. He moves his body too much in the beginning, and his face could use some improvements as well.

Terressa

Decent start. The facial animations are what works best. The eye blinks, eyebrows, mouth shapes and eye movements are very convincing and definitely bring life to this character. The grabbing of the toy and the subtle actions of the toy work well too. The lack of holds and continuous body movements however detract from this great lip sync performance. I would decrease the amount of body movement down to 4-5 poses and really work on the take to sell it more, have the body support what the face is portraying.

Tyson Haeh

Acting choices are nice but the actions feel floaty and the facial shapes are kind of weak