NancyGormezano

It's an interesting & intriguing shot - peaks my interest & makes me want to know what's going on in the hole... 1 criticism would be that Mickey's right arm is moving too much in sync with the camera movement - would be best to isolate the movements - or have some more interesting movement going on with Mickey - timing wise & action wise (looks too even, need more variation)

But whats also weird is your sky color changed (basketball example) - are you sure you're always rendering the same frame? with the same parameters?

er yup - two more excellent, reeking-with-personality models - (that candlelabra puts mine to shame)

Terrific furniture! - especially love the poofiness of the cushions, curves & modeling on the wood, casual randomness of book alignments, and fantastic cobwebs - YES you have made furniture interesting! With great personality to boot. As for the claw feet on the couches - keep them, of course! However they do look a bit structurally weak - a bit too narrow at the "ankles", with a strange improbable angle perhaps? But they are plenty good enough for a stylized version and are believable in that context. The book case feet are just fantastically creepy, unfortunately can't see them enough - maybe put a tiny bit of ankle on them, to raise the case some? The above "nits" were only if you want to spend more effort - I love it just the way they are. (great lighting too)

Its a bit hard to comment on such short snippets. But my impression is that the characters have a definite evil look to them, and Mickey is reminiscent of the very early 1930's version of him (hope thats what you're going for). The specularity & lighting tends to give them a squeaky, creepy, soft-plastic-rubbery look. But maybe just a bit too much? If that's what you want - keep it. Otherwise....need more footage to be able to really get a sense of what you're trying for.

funny. What a character! (him, ...not you)

It is hard to find something wrong with this animation - its fun, silly, cute educational flick - good panning in the beginning, loved the expressions when sad and happy - liked the silly music, silly sounds Only thing I could really come up with to improve is at the end and the teeth are just all blinking, seemed too repetitive - some variation in eye movement would be better - they could be looking at each other, changing expressions more... (and squishy & squashy are untoothlike behavior? ya telling me blinking, smiling, oohing & ahhing IS toothlike? )

Sniff...Sniff...do I smell a mini-movie? Looks like Housecleaning 101 for Superheros! Perhaps you can have a sequence of him starting with a messed up room filled with tons of furniture & junk, he whizzes around the room in a suitable superhero blur, tossing this stuff out the window (superfast motion stream of junk going out the window) & then ...gasp...he realizes what he's done and in Superhero-time he leaps out window and flys back with all the junk he's throw out (and a sheepish grin), piled high in his arms & slings it all back into some neat orderly attractive floor plan. Ta Da! & then heroically pulls out a sign - "no Littering, $500 fine" (or something more clever) Love the character - love what you're doing EDIT: I'm old - originally I had no loitering, meant to say no Littering...geesh

jamaqica - I think it looks terrific - plenty of character - wonderful bounce stuff - very appealing little guy (and as I said before - I don't like robots, but this forum is changing me fast) - I would be thrilled to do as well.

very cute - very fun - this should be interesting...

Looks great Will! It's really fun to see how it all fits together. Yaaayyy y'all !!!

How funny! Another fabulous mesmerizing clip ...Fantastic movements, hysterically full of personality & character ! This must be a great hit - I would love watching these commercials...Too bad they're nor shown here in the US ... I must send this to my "belly-ethnic-dancing, russian-turkish-uzbek and who-knows-what-else speaking" brother.

I guess I was looking at this guy as if he were a TOON type character - I didn't think of him as real. He would be ideally suited for exaggerated Toonerverse laws to control his motions - Yeah make him look like he's going to have a heart attack huffing and puffing, face turning red even ! - maybe exaggerate the hip movements in a stylistic way to go with his character - think Looney-Toons Also for the mouth motion - put it into a separate action that could have its own timing and not be synced strictly to the run cycle - thus helping to eliminate the obviousness of a "cycle" and provide interesting variation. I've seen your faboulous mouth motion tests and it definitely looked like you could get a more obvious strained exertion expending expression

Cute guy - and I like that his mouth is open but would like to see the mouth make motions as if it were huffing & puffing

I've already given you my glowing review - here's my 1 critique (which does speak to design): I thought the film noise was way too regular. I found it distracting at first, & artificial looking - would have perferred way more film graininess to the look, with more irregularity to the artifacts instead of just a vertical line. Loved the concept of adding it, just didn't come off as real enough (Did I say that?) i.e, keep the vertical line, just a little less of it & add a bit more different & intermittent "dust & scratches, broken film, film grain" effects, but not so much to overpower the flick - even just "dirtying up" the captions would help ?. And yes, twas me who said "stick figures"... glad you took it the way I meant it. Like I said - I loved this film.

He's a cutie alright - I think the stubble is tres hip - being from the NW and all that - Are those eyes bloodshot from staring at the screen too long or some other habit? Excellent touch. Sounds like a great story as well.

this looks like a fun clip - sure hope one of his expressions will be the same as the one in your photo/avatar

Tiffany - I think this piece had alot going for it - the render quality was excellent, set design excellent, loved the opening and closing credits with the writing on the blackboard (how did you do that?), also thought the entire sound design of the piece was very good - And of course, the SCRATCH - what a crack up, what a surprise - still has me smiling, giggling. For some crits - perhaps adding additional antics before the scratch, with the teacher trying to get the kids attention, that could show the escalation of frustration. Overall I really enjoyed it. (Was surprised that the teacher was a male - not a crit - just surprised). Good job!

I prefer the square one mainly because of the asymmetry - it reminds me of an old fashioned tv - but that may not be what you're going for... I also think the rectangular shape is a funnier juxtaposition with the main characters round head. Maybe if the round shape were more old fashioned oscilliscopy looking...?

amazing - absolutely amazing!

ok John - "You saw this creature?" ...Many many questions - 1) Is it safe to leave you alone while your wife goes shopping? 2) Have aliens been abducting you again? At first glance I thought it was a two headed creature guy...second glance a frog? Either way - Tell your wife to not take so long shopping - no, come to think of it - Her shopping excursions benefit us all as evidenced by your great & prolific projects and experiments that you post. Shop Away!!

Well - I can see the problem - but unfortunately I don't use boolean cutters as 1) I've never really needed to & 2) from what I hear they do seem to have "funnies" as well as up your rendering times. I would guess that it would best to use them only when the geometry would be overly complex to model. So since the door doesn' t look all that complicated - perhaps it would be better to just model the opening? I know that's not the answer you were looking for. Hopefully someone else with boolean cutter experience will chime in.

lovely setting, lovely style - tres cher

I have found that setting the ambiance (not diffuse) color of the underlying patches to black gets rid of the "artificially bright" look to hair.

I went thru the book & no way did I come out with anything like what you're doing. Excellent work.