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[Gaia Blade Story P-1]

an improvement, but...

Now there's even less animation then before. A tip: do frame by frame. And remember: movement is fluid, and people have joints. Meaning, if you are moving, chances are, you move more then one body part.

example: when you reach for a can, you bend your arm up, extend your fore arm out, open you hand, and grab it. FBF allows you to make your animation look more fluid and realistic. Tween is better for backgrounds, and small movements, like moving your eye, or zooming in or out of a scene.

For example: tweening just one part of an arm makes it look clunky, and robot. FbF, even tho the arm is the only part moving, since it is impossible to perfectly redraw each frame, the characters whole body appears to slightly move a few centimeters. This flawed motion actually looks more natural and even tho it's harder work, it will make your animations look ALOT more professional.

Plus, if you ever get a tablet, it'll be even easier to do FbF. Anyway, not bad, but next time, more animation, and check out my review of your first gaia blade anim for more tips. Not bad.

[Gaia Blade I (Now fix)]

hmm...

Well, here are some pointers:

do frame by frame.(only tween for backgrounds or small movements) and use the brush tool instead of the line tool.(even for blood, which should be more broken up into individual particals(like any liquid) instead it came down in a big chunk, which is unrealistic)) Art is a 6(slightly above average, not bad) Keep practicing. Wasn't half bad. Good job for a beginner.

[Spider-Man Animated Short]

well...

Not bad, but... was this tweened? The movements weren't consistant. Spiderman, when dodging, looked like shit. He looked like he just went from one spot to another. You need to make his whole body move. He's got bones and joints. He needs to jump and dodge, not just glide from one spot of the building to the next dodging bombs(which is what he looked like he was doing) same with him swinging from his web. He needs more body movement. He needs to move his whole body.

Other then that, good job.

[1 - The Story of Khale]

Good job!

I reviewed the trailer before saying how your level of skill was what I wanted to eventually aim for. You're amazing. It must have taken you forever to make this. I voted 8 on sound simply because I'm not much of a phil collins fan.('cept that one song, "i can feel it coming in the air at night, oh lord.") but anyway, good job man, keep it up!

LeafWorthy responds:

Thanks for the review! The artist is actually VNV Nation.

[Jesus vs Muhammad Trailer]

Eh, not much to say

Another random fight anim. Good art, not much to it, though. Hate those who rated 0 on this simply because it has jesus and muhammud fighting. If I were you I wouldn't care what they thought, you're still a good animator and have the right to make YOUR animations about whatever the hell YOU want.

As for the anim... art was good, but you should have made it solid(coloring, everything's detailed, like at the beginning) all the way through even in the fight scenes, so art got a 7. Other then that, animation(movement) was good, and it wasn't half bad. Good job.

[the YuYu]

Man...

Heard you did a bit of work for disney... and this anim definately shows that. Graphics were astounding. The way you used body language and facial expressions to illustrate your story was also great. Good job man.
Keep up the great work!

[Eres Veneno ++]

Magnifico

Mucho bueno animacion. Good job man. I only know a lil spanish so I couldn't understand the song, but the anim was pretty good. Good job.