===== From sshelby@shelbyvision.com: Very impressive for the work of a twelve year old, but compared with any of the other entries, it falls short. ===== From emperorofrome@yahoo.com: like it , it has a very Toy Story feel. ===== From evilsnack@hotmail.com: Artistically, a consistent level of realism throughout. Technically, a moderate challenge to model, somewhat difficult to animate; good execution on both levels. Concept: Weakened by reliance on soundtrack. ===== From Markus.Altendorff@asamnet.de: Well done. Of course, the graphics and animation are easier to do with the "professional" software, but they're also used very efficiently in this piece. Good idea to let the "action" take place offscreen. ===== From pterandon@yahoo.com: Love the style. ===== From irtc_mail@yahoo.co.uk: The background looks a bit dead compared to the noise and birdsong in the soundtrack. I know it is composited, but having a bird or two flying behind their heads would combat the stillness. And the trees are very simple blobs. Even in this cartoony style, I would expect more detail being as they are pre-rendered. In the opening scene, the drink hits his face so fast it would knock his teeth out. When he first spots the incident, he looks very aggressive rather than very puzzled. I think that as he is saying "would you look at that" he would go for a gesture more macho than that bent wrist point. The hand-on-the-chin pondering on "I don't know" seems too forced, as does the woman's pointing during "college you went to, but when I was.." where she points at him on "you" and herself on "I". It is not clear what happened to the book she was holding when she suddenly throws up her hands in front of her face. At the start of the incident his eyes flit to his extreme left but his head doesn't move. Wouldn't he snap his head round and stare at whatever was going on? During the thump-thump-splash their heads are moving up and down following the same thing, but they are not looking in the same direction. I am not sure what is supposed to be happening after the splash. Why does he do a ta-dah gesture, presenting the moment to her like a punchline? He is also apologizing for the incident, but whatever it was, it wasn't his fault. For me, the whole thing goes flat between the splash and "Well, I guess that's the end of that". I think it would better to cut from the splash to "Well, I guess that's the end of that" and miss out the gesturing in between. ===== From file: but what WAS that? Notable for lighting, modelling, composition