Animation demo reel critique please

[veljko-lemonade]

the reel looks cool!
the sword thing was quite morbid, but i enjoyed it!
what i noticed was strange twitches in between extremes?

nice

[cgmadvin]

Not Bad, I liked the acting. The animation does does need cleaning for the first part of the reel .You may have too many key's clustered together in the time line. The camera angles need working on for the last shot, maybe needs to focus more on the acting.
Otherwise, nice animation reel. I am sure with a little tlc this reel will go far. :)

[rbfalconi]

Hi Eric,

i liked the animation on the sword part, it´s very interesting. As cgmadvin said, you could improve the value of the scene, with some camera moves, focus and in mostly with music.
I know its maybe not your focus here, as an animator. Your Reel started with an actor 'i´m not an animal etc..', and the music was increasing the mood of it, very nice; but on the last part, it appears that your soundtrack has nothing to do with the acting... specially because your scene is in a theather, I think without this music, your animation has even more value.

I just upload my reel, I´d appreciate if you take a look too. This is the thread: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=154&t=802135

Cheers!

[Abazaba]

your posing is nice, 'specially the first shot. but its way too jerky. your torso movements are erratic, most obviously in the final anim. try acting out the movements youve created and tape it. maybe youll see how your torso moves in these actions.

[rydgen]

Hey Eric, nice to see a fellow Alumni here.

I don't have a lot to add as far as critiques go. As it's been pointed out, there's a fair amount of jerky movements that need to be smoothed out between key poses. The knees and elbow supporting the body in the lip sync are particularly jerky. My favorite was the middle asset with the dodging of the stage hooks. Nice, smooth jump there.

Yeah, it seems like a lot of it is timing as well. What's interesting though is that because of the jerky movements and the film quality of the whole reel, it looks like an early 1900's movie when film was hand-cranked so that timing wasn't always consistent. Neat effect, but unintentional I'm sure.

You've got a lot of basics down though. Work out the timing and smooth out the movements between key poses and you'll be set.

Best of luck!

[EricSavino]

Thanks guys for all the feedback. Apparently there is still a bit of tweeking to be done. It's a good thing I've been practicing. To rydgen I say helloooo fellow Alumni. I appreciate all the feed back, thanks again. Take care fellas.

[CGOutcast]

they keys are good, it just doesnt flow right to me, smooth out your lines in the graph editor and see if it feels a lil better that way. i think it would help it a bit. keep it up man

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