Need help with rating and feedback. :) Thank you. :)

Odyssevs

Hey, me and a friend have worked with an animation film for two to three months now. I've made three animations to the movie and need help with feedback.

Before I began the task I had very little experience in animation, so I'm reasonably new to animation.

I have created a survey that I wish you would take

The reason why I have made the survey is because this is one of the requirements for the written part of the assignment. Im supposed to do a study on the animations I have made.

So I would really appreciate it if you could take the survey, it is very short. Videos and images are located inside the survey.

I really need to have this survey answered.  

Any feedback you have on the animations you can write here on this post.

Here is the link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZrOWRVgZJ4GWOnyLK-6RD5uA597ZXcqCIzgakgxWP9g/viewform

Odyssevs

Thanks?

Brian "Panda" Choi

Repost your animations IN this thread, and responses will be happen more frequently.

Admittedly, with your several lines of text with multiple line breaks caused by emoticons kind of deflates the thread at first blush.

Show your work as soon as possible, not later.

Post the videos, and we'll give feedback.  Don't stuff it in a very long Google survey.

Succinct, and "Show, don't write." tends to work best on PC.

KrisLW

+1 for what Brian said. I completed the survey, but I agree in that it's better to show the work you want feedback on immediately. Was the Google survey format absolutely required for this project, or do you just need to gather feedback? If you just need feedback, you'd be better off to post the videos (or even make them into GIFs) so that people can see them immediately, then you can compile the responses on your own.

As for the actual animations, they're not bad - but they seem to lack the natural fluidity of real movement.  The mushroom hat walking seemed unnatural when the character put the staff back and turned. The magic spell cast just looks very odd overall without an actual spell appearing, and the end looked like he was about to die. For the troll, the muscles-tightened-and-quivering shake went on for far too long, and was too confined. The fact that only the arms moved also makes it look a bit more like a stuttering video rather than a purposeful animation. I personally would also suggest extending your animations so they start before the video and end after the video - watching the model start/stop makes it feel rather artificial.

Also, before/after skinning of the troll... what? If the troll wasn't skinned, it wouldn't animate. I am assuming that you mean after you fixed Maya's automatic skin binding. Skinning isn't necessarily something that needs to be judged on it's own... if the skinning is bad, you'll have trouble animating and the animations won't come out right, and it'll be quite obvious.