Judge feedback

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• It would be good to see a more in-depth R&D phase, and clearer planning here would have allowed for longer time perfecting the work. You have clearly put in a lot of work, but overall the animation submitted feels like a series of poses blending from one another. The project would have benefitted from taking some time to study the requirements for the animation states. If possible try and shoot your own reference to help understand how your body feels doing the actions required.
• There are some issues with the poseing, weighting and timing. I would suggest taking each section and rework the timing going from pose to pose initially- getting the poses more weighted and realistic,.(View from all angles just to make sure the character doesn't seem off balance etc. I I would also recommend acting out yourself what you want your character to do in the performance- can your body actually replicate what you currently have animated? Once you have the weighting and timing of the sequence finalised,(almost like an animatic), you can then go in and add the micro movements for the feet and hands and get the body weight a bit more fine tuned. I would recommend simplifying the whole scene and work on polishing one or two sections....look to concentrate on the motion inbetween the pose you have. Look to provide impetus, momentum and dynamism into the motion- to get from crawling to standing with a simple arc would be physically challenging....use your phone maybe to film yourself or a friend doing the motion you require as reference.