Classmate Midterm Reviews

 Everyone's projects were great and interesting but for this week's assignment I will look at Tyler Getz's midterm project and Alex Lubeck's Midterm.

Tyler Getz's Midterm

This looks pretty cool, I like the animation that is there so far and the lily pads are nice. It would be nice to see some textures and to see the green frog get a face of some sort. The water would like really nice if it were textured and animated too, but depending on the look you are going for that may not be necessary, but ripples in the water would make sense. The character/frog animation can be improved by further exaggerating the squash and stretch. It may make it seem a bit more cartoonish if it is exaggerated a lot but it is already more abstract so I think it could work for this. Additionally, the animation can be improved by making the lily pads dip a bit down into the water from the impact of the frog landing on it.


Alex Lubeck's Midterm 

The snowmen models are cute, I like the way you used the extrude tool and I like how the snow was made as well as the Igloo. I also really like the lighting and warmth of it, it makes the scene look really nice. The animation is nice and works with the models and lighting well. The use of multiple camera angles/positions took me by surprise the first time, it adds great interest and makes some nice compositions within the scenes of the animation. It would be nice for the transition between different camera angles/views to be a little smoother. It might be worth it to try to add a 3d texture to the igloo to make it look even more like an igloo.


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