NancyGormezano

Interesting, smushy hand colored/painted look - Nice!

It really is a lovely image - love the coloring & textures, nice lighting - very interesting character - & of course very storybookish - You must post more often, would enjoy seeing more of your works - Sorry you didn't get in... (Which guideline was broken?)

That is looking at Mr. Thatcher, but not clear I guess. It was clear he was looking back - I think the suggestion was meant to imply to do the turn AFTER he says 60 years. At first I thought that as well - which makes me reconsider (since it was the first thing that came to mind, and it's better to go with something more unexpected). Perhaps keep the fast action you have of him turning but just delay the start of the turn? Good stuff - also found it interesting to hear about placing more stress on body language - rather than the mouth.

Some things that break the illusion for me: the clouds move too fast for the amount of time we're viewing, the ufo doesn't appear to change size when it moves behind the building & the blur/ufo are too bright against the background - needs to blend more, be less crisp. Maybe the lasers, smoke, etc would distract from the above - and yes the foreground is too static.

In response to Bruce's deranged but welcome request for celebrating Halloween in this thread: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?s=&sh...ndpost&p=141506 & as I can definitely never resist a chance to embarass myself - I now present 2 clips - Both OLD (halloween 2000, hamming it up with a new netcam) - definitely BAD - and unfortunately complete (what's to improve?, some things are best left raw, and highly compressed). The first clip "I see Dead Piggies" was just soooooo wonderful it just begged to be used in the making of the second "Space CowGhoul". Post your past Flim-Flams here if you don't have a website (or would rather keep it pristine & perfect) I'm already in a sugar coma due to treat sampling. ISeeDeadPiggies.mov SpaceCowGhoul.mov

I seem to usually have a different take - I am not skilled enough to critique on a frame by frame basis & I'm not sure how demo reels are critiqued at the studios you would be submitting it to - but my guess is that demo reels that get noticed are based on "How well does it stand out on first impression" & Does it have a WOW factor? All this was said so that you can take what I say as just observation from a lookie-loo, who knows nuthin' about what people are looking for.. I do not know if this reel has enough WOW to stand out, in comparison to the other reels that they would be receiving. It gives me the impression that you have a personal mastery of martial arts. Good sense of weight, balance, & quick timing. And I get the impression everything is animated (except for the last clip) to a certain beat & that it's a martial arts type fighting beat. (including the egg with legs) - So I would guess that you are aiming this at the game industry? It has a very staccato clunky feel to it (looks like a game to me), does not have a movie feel. I can appreciate the difficulty of having the players look convincing as they interact - and I would say you do that well (again from first impression). I do notice that the yellow guy when he is on the shoulders of the green guy seems too floppy from an acting standpoint - and that the red guy (after green guy gets tossed) seems to slide some on the ground. I notice the lack of shadows which if included would help tie the actors to the ground. It would have more wow - if some interesting sound effects/music were also included with the scenes that don't have it. (I know - you're going for animator position - but to me - these other things give a more polished look) I would want to see more extreme poses with subtle acting & variation in mood in the last piece to show proficiency in a different genre - or even with more comical, surprising exaggerated responses. Unfortunately I'm also noticing that the render quality is distracting, along with some scintillating - Is this a final render? I would think even tho you're going just for animating it still would be important to show a better render. Did you upscale? or is it a internet mpg compression problem? I found it shows better if I half sized it to 320 x 240 - less distracting. Again - I am not qualified to really know what the studios would be placing empathsis on, and I offered mostly frill impressions. You obviously have way more chance of being hired than I . Salud y Vida! Nancy

Quicktime pro (29.99) from Apple - takes an avi & converts to mov (& also giving you compression & fast start options).

that is just positively terrific looking !

Yeah, thats the ticket ..much, much better vine ropes... only thing I would say now is that there are too many in the lower level that don't really have a purpose (maybe it is something a Loon would do?) - the top level looks good, as the vines are only in places in order to tie the legs to the platform.

that's really looking good & the hair trees are very well done (too bad about the jitters)... Interesting for me to see A:M being used like this.

Looks good Ken - only thing I would say is it looks too regular for bamboo tied together. Maybe do this at the end of modeling: introduce more variation on the "green vine rope ties" - ie spread some loops out in a fanned way in the clumps of ties, make the clumps look irregular with different # of loops, thickness, to have a more hand-tied, irregular vine look... maybe some of the loops could be overlapping. Also maybe the bamboo should also have some variations, irregularities in thickness & angle ? You know... a throne crafted by Loons who never went to Boy Scouts.

looked like lightning to me.

looks pretty good - yes it is dark - but I could make it out - just lighten up the background some - also would like to see the funnel shape show more variation as it moves - I like the dust kickup. Yup - "It's beginning to look a lot like Kansas - Everywhere I go". (Oh wait - that's a christmas song)

Yum. Delicious! love the look, choice of music - had me cracking up - pace might be a bit slow - and is hard to imagine at that pace where it's going as a full length movie (will have to just wait) - but as a clip - its F-U-N-N-Y, funny funny. with a very retro/original look to it - Sorta in the Ed Wood style of movie making. (still have smile on my face)

Sorry - get in line with bad puns - I believe Ken & myself were the first to discredit ourselves.

Fascinating image. I wish I were as rusty as you. (Hmmmm.... thinks to self: Maybe I should go away for 6 months too?)

Those are terrific characters - great fun - love how you handled the barn as well. The duck is a bit odd compared to the rest - (odd duck, get it? yuk yuk) As for wing rigging - you might check out Alain Desrouchers pigeon on the extras cd - (whoa momma - quite realistic)

A+ in my book. (Whew...It's a good thing I'm not going to school. For a history class? - amazing!)

Definitely CG - You can't fool us. (you definitely have to do something about your animating skills tho, I remember you doing clips that were way better than this) Model looks terrific! Incloop.mov

lovely mood, gorgeous lighting, love the books (excellent placement, uncontrived randomness) - as I said before - I can hear the crickets - I get a feeling of coziness - peace - nothing evil about it to me. Only problem I have is the mountain placement from a compositional standpoint - sticking up out of the bookcase on the right. I could imagine a more Himalya type range in the background - sort of like the Kali Gandaki River Gorge in the Annapurna region of Nepal - where the river valley is at 3000 feet & the mountains surrounding it are in the range of 20-27,000 feet. This image is probably taken at a higher elevation than the river (probably at 8-10000 feet) - but gives you a feeling for the impact of a dramatic mountain range in the background: http://www.awstevenson.com/Upper%20Mustang...daki%20008.html Love your textures - love what you've done.

Perhaps one of those top heavy ladies could fade in from behind the letters. She would be giant size, you would only see her top half initially, neck to boobs. And she could knock the fallen letters off the stage with her knockers? Or she could come in normal size & sweep them off stage - instead of the janitor - tho I doubt anyone reviewing the reel would be old enough to get the historical connection.

Yolk Yolk - What a Crack UP! I absolutely love your stuff - that's terrific ... (Whatever happened to Clothesline?)

Patrick - Everytime I try to view your website - I get some script error message, like in "do I want to keep running them (scripts)" - which is usually not a problem when I encounter that on other websites. I don't have cookies enabled, other than for 1 session use, am using slimbrowser - I usually click yes, no, close the dialog window - doesn't matter - and continue with viewing the site. but on your site - it locks up my browser totally - and I have to cntrl alt delete the browser in order to get out of it. Just letting you know in the event others can't view your site either. (and I'd like to see it too!)

Well I watched Happy Tree Friends last night - what a strange show - my kind of twisted humor (in parts) - definitely not Disney. Was great to see your name & flick - (as I nudged my husband & said so smuggly ... oh yeah ... I know him). I think "cell phone" would also do well for that show... Congrats again!

Hah! oh fun! - terrific Matt... (I gotta get me this plug-in)