new website

[Valentina]

Hi all,

I've uploaded my new website, I'd be glad if you could have a moment for take a look at and give me some feedback!

www.tinkerbell.it

I'll be uploading my diploma film soon.
It has just join the Official Selection at Annecy 2006 :)

thanks!

valentina

[L_Finston]

I've uploaded my new website, I'd be glad if you could have a moment for take a look at and give me some feedback!Very impressive. What sort of feedback are you looking for?

I'll be uploading my diploma film soon.
It has just join the Official Selection at Annecy 2006 :)
Congratulations! I look forward to seeing it.

Laurence Finston

[Valentina]

I guess "impressive" it's just a very good beginning : )

thank you very much!!

[L_Finston]

I guess "impressive" it's just a very good beginning : )I meant, how much detail do you want, and are you looking for constructive criticism? Not everybody wants it, or not just from anybody.

thank you very much!!You're welcome.

Laurence

[Valentina]

Be cruel!

say everything you wish to say.

[L_Finston]

Be cruel!

say everything you wish to say.I'm not cruel, I always try to be constructive.

I like a lot of what you do. I like that it's honest-to-goodness hand-drawn artwork. I don't think you're losing _anything_ by not jumping on the computer animation bandwagon. I believe drawing is the basis of everything in art. If you ever want to do computer animation, your drawing skills will be very helpful to you.

What I don't like in some places is the cuteness. There are people who say that "appeal" is very important, and even that it's a principle of animation. No matter what you decide to do, I think it's important to realize that not everybody thinks this way. I find that my drawings often come out cuter than I intended. I believe it's because of the simplification needed to make them movable. I figure, as long as I'm not deliberately trying to make them cute, it's okay.

I think the music and the fast cutting detract from your showreel. Fast cutting isn't really suited to animation, because it breaks off the motion. No matter what else an animation is about, it should always be about motion.

I've got to go, so I'll break off here for now. I'll just add that I particularly liked your line-test video.

Laurence

[BossMonkey]

awesome stuff
I really like your character designs
and that animation you have of that guy with the moustache getting angry, very nice performance animation

[Wontobe]

I do not know why but my quicktime can not work with your file.

[Valentina]

I'm not cruel, I always try to be constructive.
I like a lot of what you do. I like that it's honest-to-goodness hand-drawn artwork. I don't think you're losing _anything_ by not jumping on the computer animation bandwagon. I believe drawing is the basis of everything in art. If you ever want to do computer animation, your drawing skills will be very helpful to you.
Laurence

Hi Finston,

I'm always glad to hear some constructive critiques, it help me to make my works getting better, thank you.
About the cuteness and the appeal as a basic principle of animation, you're righ.
But if I create character by myown, and I have to invent it, I use to make a cute one, just because I like it.
But the day which someone will give me a different character to be animated, of course I'll do my best to respect it's personality.. it just doesn't happened yet :)

About the music, you're right too, I can see it in my reel, that's why I'm going to make a new one, but I'm still waiting for the diploma film's scenes.. without them I'm totally stucked.
So, in the next one I'll try to keep all those advices in mind!

thanks again for ther advices! :)

Valentina

[Valentina]

awesome stuff
I really like your character designs
and that animation you have of that guy with the moustache getting angry, very nice performance animation

Thanks!

The guy with the moustache is the main character of my diploma film.. I hope to put the film online as soon as possible!

thanks again :)

Vale

[Valentina]

I do not know why but my quicktime can not work with your file.

I'm sorry about that.. have you tried to download it by clicking with the right mouse button and saving it as object?

[BossMonkey]

Thanks!

The guy with the moustache is the main character of my diploma film.. I hope to put the film online as soon as possible!

thanks again :)

Vale

I'm looking forward to it
consider me a fan :D

[Animated Ape]

Great work Valentina. I like the new look of your site. I really like the X-sheet, or dope-sheet, or what ever term is used in Europe in the background. Great characters and sketches, and your demo kicks butt!!. I really like how you edited it together. I'm a big fan of editing, and I like how you hit thinks on the beat and would often lead the eye from the tail of one shot into the head of the next shot.

Keep up the great work Valentina!

Mahalo,
the Ape

[Valentina]

It's X-sheet too here in Europe :)
Thank you!

I was tired of the old website's style..all that black was not much positive to me!
So, you liked how I've edited the reel, I'm very glad of it! What you thought after watching it, the way how you felt like, it's exactly what I meant to make people who watch my reel feel like.
I really enjoy put music and video together, even if sometime it means cutting animation.. and as I mentioned before, that may be not very usefull to my reel.
But as people say to "do not cut" animations, may be other would like to see the inventive, the creativity, to enjoy it and have fun..I don't know.. It depends on what you're exactly looking for.
In pixar nd in Disney, they want to see the "story telling". Perhaps they would like to see full animations, never cutted.

I don't know!
I think that we must give to our works a bit of everything.
I'll be trying to make a new reel that is not too much cutted, but not too much boaring as well :)
That's not very easy..

thank you Ape, thank you all guys : )

[L_Finston]

I'm always glad to hear some constructive critiques, it help me to make my works getting better, thank you.You're welcome.

But the day which someone will give me a different character to be animated, of course I'll do my best to respect it's personality.. it just doesn't happened yet :)You may wait a long time before this happens. Most animation uses cute characters. I think this is one reason why it's difficult to get the message across that animation isn't just for kids, and doesn't have to be funny, in the US and Europe.

By the way, I didn't say anything about cutting being bad. Of course, animations need cuts, even if they're planned and there's no literal or virtual cutting involved. I think fast cutting is overused in live-action, and in animation, it interrupts the motion. If you take it to the extreme point, you have a sequence of unconnected positions with no illusion of motion. However, the illusion of motion is the point of animation, at least in my opinion. Otherwise, you might as well just make a filmstrip.

I'm not suggesting you change what you do to suit my taste. You may have a completely different approach to animation. I'm just mentioning this because I think it would be useful for you to think about it, based on what I saw on your website.

Laurence

[rajkumar_dude]

good one dude
:) :) definitely a great beginning:) :)

[naresh]

hi,
nice website...and amezing works.....love the designs.....great going:)
naresh
http://lostinarc.blogspot.com

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