Character - Animation - talentless Clown

[t4d]

4.5 meg Qtime (http://members.optusnet.com.au/~t4d/t4d_clown_talentless.mov)

entered the cg challenge working on my entry
would love some feedback

[astro-sanchez]

Your animation looks good. Some parts he kind of looks stiff, but that could
just be me.

[sKb875]

Yep, it sure does look good.

[hrgiger]

Pretty good. That clown is freakishly nightmarishly scary.

The only thing I didn't like is the cane chasing him at the end. Kind of a stiff and uninteresting motion.

[Capel]

hmmmmm.... some parts were pretty good. Like when he reaches off camera and pulls the spotlight back into the shot. But everything else was.... REALLY choppy. Especially when he's flying back and forth on the spotlight. It looked wrong in every way. He didn't look like he was hanging, really. Buy "The Animators Handbook" by richard williams. You seem to have a good start, but man i'd try and smooth it out. IMHO

[Capel]

ok, i just watched it again. The way the hat bounces on the ground when it falls off his head is totally unnatural. Also, when he runs off camera at the end, it looks really bad. Kinda made me forget about the good moments earlier on in the animation cuz it ended on such a bad note. IMHO

[Capel]

just watched it again. You might think about having him look up a few times after his cane flies in the air. Only after the fourth time watching it did i realize what actually happened. Maybe have him anticipate catching it before he actually does catch it. If he's such a talentless clown, maybe he should miss catching it or it hits him on the head or something? I don't know. Just a few suggestions. Keep it up, though. It's a good idea.

[t4d]

thanks Capel for the straight comments love it
at the moment i'm working on a job
usualy i do edu animation
and character animation of this type is new to me
but will get back to it in a few days and will be reading The Animators Handbook in the inbetween time:)
i'll keep working on it

again Big THANKS for saying what you think:D

[Capel]

no problem, man. Thanks for being so humble! You don't see that too much on these forums! Good luck with the challenge!

[t4d]

4.5 meg Qtime download (http://members.optusnet.com.au/~t4d/t4d_clown_talentless.mov)

another update i think it looks better, :D

thinking need to take one of the swings out to give more time to everything and slow thinks down abit :confused:
tells us what you think :)

[t4d]

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4.5 meg Qtime download (http://members.optusnet.com.au/~t4d/t4d_clown_talentless.mov)

redone a simple body with a toon face just bit of fun will be redoing the proper clown later

the motion is nearly there very close love some feed back

[Jimzip]

Heh heh, oh that's really cool.
Yeah when he throws the cane up it's a little unclear about what he's trying to do, but I think the motion is great, very smooth and natural.
I'm guessing it was redone since the first post! ;)

Jimzip :D

[t4d]

Thanks Jimzip
yeah i have been updating abit
the cg challenge deadline is still afew weeks away

hope to get back to it before then to do the final tidy up :)

[t4d]

4.5 meg Qtime (http://members.optusnet.com.au/~t4d/t4d_clown_talentless.mov)

99% complete :)

love some feedback

[julos]

Not bad at all ! i'm not found of the Lighting/rendering but the animation has some excellent parts, really believable, well done ! :)