Beginner Animator seeking your amazing feedback/critique

ibiatemie

Hi all,

I am an beginner Animator located in Toronto, looking to get into the Industry and take part in all the amazing work all of you Animators out there make. So far, It's been pretty difficult trying to get in myself, to be honest.. so I'm hoping I can get some advice on here; maybe show me a few pointers in other to make my work better, in order to impress everyone.

This is my reel: http://syncsketch.com/sketch/a4eaddff9fc0/

Thanks in advance of all your great feedback!

Cheers,
Ibi
http://ibiatemie.com/

citadel

Hello. I recommend you take a step back from character rigs for the moment and work on a 'bouncing ball' exercise. This is an essential first step to improving animation fundamentals. 

Start out with this exercise and keep it simple, no more than 100 frames of animation total.

Things to think about:
-The ball's weight
-Speed/velocity
-Volume, squash and stretch
-Friction, how to comes to a stop

Keep it very simple. and post your results!

crappyguy

hi there! i'd suggest you to do the same thing that citadel says. start from the basics. and take it slow. i'm a beginner too and i decided to start from the basic bouncing ball. let me tell you, it feels great to know that you're progressing.

ibiatemie

Cool! Thanks a lot guys!

ibiatemie

Hey Guys,

Thanks a lot for the last review.

@citadel @crappyguy I have posted a simple-ish bouncing exercise I did yesterday.

Here is the link: http://syncsketch.com/sketch/cd129f2c9191/

I look foreward to all your great reviews.

Ps, Everyone and every review welcome

Thanks a lot in advance, guys!

Cheers,

deanimation

The link is private

ibiatemie

Sorry about that. Should be good now

deanimation

Nope haha
At the main menu, there is a share button. Click on that and change it to anyone.

ibiatemie

Oh My! Really apologise for this. Not yet used to syncsketch I guess :P but it really should be accessible now.. I hope

link: http://syncsketch.com/sketch/cd129f2c9191/

Let me know what you all think

Ps, thanks for the help with syncsketch @deanimation

Cheers,

AGoodFella

Left some notes. There are some timing/spacing issues across the entire shot. This is really hurting it. Once you fix them up, it will feel/look a lot better. 

Take a look at this:

https://goo.gl/images/HCy8Xo

ibiatemie

Cool! Thanks a lot @AGoodFella

ibiatemie

Hey Guys!

So thanks to @AGoodFella I managed to make some fixes to my ball animation.

(Bouncing_Ball_2) link: https://syncsketch.com/sketch/cd129f2c9191/#370507 

 I also left the previous one available, in case anyone might want to compare or something. I hope you notice the change :P

I appreciate all this help so far and hope to continue getting your amazing reviews.

Cheers,

Royal_Hitsuji

Pretty sure you are passed this stage already but if you can extract any info from this Ill leave it here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xTgUDdvc_A

Also to me it looks alot better than the first. Only thing I can find that isnt 100% optimal is the shelf landing.