Interim Crit Feedback

In the interim crit that we gave today, Hayley and I received A LOT of feedback. A lot of which I am very appreciative of, purely because without the interim crit we probably wouldn't have had the confidence to go up an ask for comments and advice on our work. Therefore this interim crit helped us see what we want in our animation more clearly, and will allow us to refine each aspect even further.

To begin with, a lot people mentioned that they noticed our characters looked great but their heights were an issue. For example, the little sister is not very little, and she could be a lot smaller, to make her less obvious at winning. Because this is my character, I am definitely going to alter this. Some others also stated that her eyes could be bigger in order to match Hayley's character, and i am vey glad someone pointed this out to me, because having the two characters be easily distinguishable as brother and sister was very important element to me.

Lighting was also a reoccurring comment. Because Hayley and I decided that our animation would be set in a tent, Mat notified us that lighting works incredibly differently inside and outside an object. I did not know this, and before I completely eliminated the tent idea, I think it would be best to model the tent and then do some tests on lighting. 

Then we got a lot of feedback on our animatic. I am going to fix the animatic right away, as I completely forgot about the timing of it, and more about the fluidity. And I will also look at lighting for this aspect also. Sara also mentioned whether or not we need the swooping into the tent -our establishing shot- in the beginning, or could we get away with just starting the animation inside the tent, getting straight to the action. Hayley and I both agree that this is something to think about.

Overall I have received a lot of feedback and this is a lot more than I have ever gotten so I am feeling a bit overwhelmed with all the work we have to do in such a small space of time. However I am going to fix all the problems that were brought up and also see what Hayley think so them.