Animation: Fly?

[yikai]

Hi, I'm a recent graduate from Toronto Film School. I've done this animation in Maya 5. I hope you'll enjoy it! :)

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17.3 MB
~~> Fly.mov <~~ (http://www.yikaianimation.com/animation/Fly.mov)

Here are some snap shots:
http://www.yikaianimation.com/animation/fly01.jpg
http://www.yikaianimation.com/animation/fly02.jpg
http://www.yikaianimation.com/animation/fly03.jpg
http://www.yikaianimation.com/animation/fly04.jpg


Thank you for watching~
Please give some comments and criticues, Thank you! :D

[Phynius Gauge]

The animation is really good and funny as well. The only crits I have are that the hands are kind of simple and don't look so great, a few textures are kind of low quality, and the anti-aliasing/ the compression quality is not very great. Still its a great animation, I liked it a lot:).

[yikai]

Thanks for your critiques, Phynius Gauge :)
ya, some textures are prety low quality, honestly, I was hoping that no body would recognize it =P
but you did... =P
I'll pay attention to those details for my next animation. :)
Thank you! ;)

[Jared]

Haha, this is really good.
One thing i noticed though.
About approximately 02.28-02.30 minutes into the movie, the lighting on the hamster suddenly changes.
The shadows get stronger and it looks much better.
Why is that, And why didn't you have that kind of lighting all along?

[cgi_peter]

Wow this is really nice, very funny. Well done :D

[Ironbuket]

Its great, but during 2:07-2:13 look at the light cast on his head and the light cast on the ground behind him as he moves his head left and right. Something really weird is going on. Its almost as if he is transparent, but hes not.

Im not sure what is happening exactly, but it looks weird. Just watch that section again and Im sure you will see what I am talking about.