I recently joined a forum for professional character animators (and pro wannabes like me) many if these folks are using MAX lightwave Maya and softimage for their character work many of these guys work full time in the animation industry and are quite blunt in their critiques( tough love)

whenever i post a link to one of my animations
i get responses ranging from "Good work" to
" Sorry back to the drawing board kid!!"
but one thing is alway the same:.....

THEY SALIVATE OVER THE CHARACTER MODELS THAT I USE!!!!

I hesitate to mention that i use poser because of the snobbery that i KNOW i will encounter so i keep the subject on the animation.
meanwhile they are animating crudely built models like th one pictured above.

here is a recent responce to some of my animation

"Well I think all the models in both animations kick ass first of all.
The first one I think the animation for the jedi is really good. Almost looks like Motion capture. If you key framed it , then you did a great job.
When the robot comes in from the left, Looks a bit choppy for me. That could be smoothed out a bit.
Also the transition from the two different camera angles confuses me a bit. The robot gets very close to the jedi. Then a camera angle changes and then the robot is at a distance. Like the animation was repeated just from a different angle.
The Lipsync as Aaron said needs a bit more work.
It almost looks as if you only have to transitions. the mouth opens and then closes. If you added the mouth shapes O,E,B,V into the mix you could get alot more out of his speech.
But I got to commend you on such great modeling Skills. The modeling is top notch.
Good stuff.
Michael Loeck"<

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