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Reviews for "The Perfect Snowflake"

A couple of notes.

Two things could -hugely- help make this look more professional. First: On the segments where you've motion tweened the limbs against the body, recolor them so the shading is much closer between the objects, and fade it toward the top of the limb to an identical shade. Increasing the brightness of foreground objects is a valid technique but you're overdoing it. Secondly, where you ramped up the transparency of the same object to represent a reflection on ice, the points where the separate motion tweened segments overlap is painfully obvious, and it looks really sloppy. If you don't have the time to fbf those segments (that confuses me, slightly, it looks like you did for every shot except when the character was presented in profile), then use an opaque image tinted the color of the ice, not a transparent one. You should be able to get the color the same with some tweaking and you won't end up with the dark areas on all the joints.

DrClay responds:

Noted, thanks for the tip.
As far as FBF goes, I was actually sick when I started this project, which about 2 weeks ago, so I kinda got delayed. (also college finals held me back for time) so I was forced to tween some areas.
I am currently trying to keep a FBF look in my cartoons so it looks more professional, and also because I believe FBF is a more flexible animation.

Thanks for the tip about the reflection part, I never would of thought of that.

The reason I don't blur so much is because I don't want the animation to lag. But I'll try to toy around with it and not use so much masks.

Thanks for the help man :D

Not bad.

The animation lags a little bit, but it's good.

DrClay responds:

Yeah, I can never get around that. The reason is because I use masks for shading in my stuff. :P