Animation: Backyard Bully (Short/Demo Reel)

[mattmos]

Wow. Lovely stuff! The quality of the rendering is beautiful, and the characters move very nicely. The squirrel's weight doesn't quite work when he is pulling himself out of the ground, but that's a very minor point. Nice movement in the tail. The flashback is dare I say it a little cheesy, but you pull it off. Good job :thumbsup:

I hope that you get a kick ass sound designer to assist with the soundtrack, because this certainly deserves one - it does detract a little from the piece without it for me, but shouldn't present a problem when sending off your reel because as industry are always fond of telling us, they watch it with the sound off anyway...

[Rudity]

Huge thanks for the reply and your honesty mattmos!


So you thought the flashback was cheesy too? :applause:


See ya around the forum,
Rudity

[mattmos]

Forgot to mention how impressed I am that you've managed this at 20 years old. That's a nice headstart mate.

[Volker]

Hey Rudity, I think this stuff is great for your first reel. A couple crits though....

If you want the squirel to be really snappy, you need to take out all that slow anticipation. When ever he snaps somewhere, he antics back really slow. They don't work together. If you look at scrat(which I'm sure you studied for your character), his anitics(if he ever has any) are very very quick, and more felt than seen. I also think that after he does his snappy turns, like in the begining, he takes too much time to slow out of them. If you want a snappy character, I feel that he needs to be snappy the whole way through, not slow antic, snappy move, and then slow ease out. The fall through the tree was great, really made me laugh. Good weight and timing there. As far as crossbow man, I think that last clip was your weakest. There were a lot of frozen holds, so he popped in and out of movement, and the action of reloading was pretty sloppy too. I'd axe that. Remember, you're only as good as your worst clip. Hope this helps, keep it up.

~Zach

[disher]

Omg what a sweet animation, it made me laugh a couple of times and I really like your style.
Excellent work... :thumbsup:

[coldcurrent]

really great work man!!
dun worry! i'm sure u will get the job soon!!!

[roarty]

I hated it..
it sux big time!!
ouch!!! :thumbsdow


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lol JUST KIDDING! I was waiting for this.. nicely done rudy :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Rudity]

Thanks for the replies folks. :thumbsup:

Babyhopper - Thank you very much for your critiques. They've already got me thinking. I'll definetly remember some of the stuff you told me the next time im animating.
O, I also checked out your website, and returned the favor by watching your demo reel. The first clip was, just awesome. It inspired me. Thanks again for the critiques.


roarty :wavey: Get back to work!


I'm happy that I've made some people laugh.
Thanks again guys.

[Rudity]

Bump!

It has sound now. No .mov's yet though. Having trouble compressing the sound with sorenson.

Thanks in advance.
Rudity

[Bullseye]

Great stuff man........What is the band that is playing during the credits?

Keep up the good work,
Bull

[altermind]

hey... neat stuff..... I'm also going to AI CDIS..... burnaby campus..... it's all good ;)

cya round some time

[Rudity]

Thanks guys.
The song at the end of the credits is Dashboard Confessional - Screaming Infidelities.
Yup I spent alot of time on the burnaby campus, and living around there in general. Nice area. Now I'm living downtown Vancouver, and man its a nice place. Rent is a bit more expensive but I can always just walk down a few streets dropping resume's at shops and restaurants when I'm not CG'ing it. I'm good for 5 months though :)

See ya guys around.

Rudity

[Reo]

So your...like.....a 3d animatior....and some junk....
thats cool.......I hear animatiors make lots of like.....money and some junk.

so like you wanna like totally make out.


wicked stuff....glad to see you got it done....now on to the next short film.

slacker


Reo

[elastic]

All hail Mr Rudy, King Of Squirrels!

Congrats on getting this finished, dood. You already know that I think it's awesome, but I still would have liked to see an alternate ending where the kitty and squirrel become romantically involved. I'd call it : Backside Bully. :D

Hey can I spill the beans about your new you-know-what, or should I let you do that...

psssst.... darren's got a job! woohoo!

[Reo]

you know dan......this thing you have with cg characters doing it is only spurring me to ....
make models of you and Rudity so you guys can "get romanticaly involved" as you put it.....

hay do I hear new demo. I think I do.


way to go on the getting work Rudity. glad to hear it.

though I'm going to kill you.


:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:


alright im out

Reo

[Rudity]

Hey, thanks guys. Backside bully eh???? BRAINSTORM TIME

Backside Bully Synopsis:

Two mischievous neutered critters through trial and error find a solution to their lack of sexuality through... the Backside.


There's one for the academy...

Ok what was I thinking, now my cute critters are corrupted, and all I did was think.. I hate you Dan.


:)
Laters
Rudity

[Reo]

no no dude it's the backdoor bully......

[Emoy one]

....excellents....

[AlbertArt]

The animation where the guy eats the scared nuts is pretty weak and the voice of the guy is so hard to understand. Did you do the voice?

The cat test is nice. I would have liked to see the cat more animated in the actual film.


The actual story is quite good, but the sound kills it. Something that I found annoying is the head turns while he peaks out form the grass. I think they are too slow, but in later animation its gets snappy. So its conflicting as character animation.

When the kitty lands on the ball, it just pops frozen for afew frames. No squash, or OL action.

It looks to me like you concentrated on the main character for animation.

Were you inspired by "Gone Nutty" Blue Sky Studios by any chance.

[HenningK]

Nice stuff. Heh. the flashback was the best part. I saw no huge problems with animation, which was obviously your focus. Very Blue Sky indeed. Im trying to get people to realize that the "Skrat falling down the hillside" shot sequence is overused, but its always such a dynamic and funny solution.
love,hen

[spacey]

wow, i loved that. i wanted to make a short too, it just seems that the learning curve for animation in 3dsmax / maya is fairly high. i can model things okay, but making it come alive is another :P

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