Rope Swing Fourth Pass

3 Comments

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   Erik | May 26, 2008 at 04:52

   Nice work Avner! You have been steadily adding on top of prior successes with new challenges in measure. This progression in your work has been great to witness.

   What I particularly like in this sequence is the fluid combination of mechanical and emotional energy. You have been thinking things through quite thoroughly. I could point out a lot of clever little details, but will point out one on frame 180 as an example. After he has encountered the challenge and stopped, considered the option available, decided the risk is worth taking, and has pulled back to make the leap, he looks back at his perusers one last time. That consistency of character intention is great!

   The only issue I find is with the peak and bounce of the actual swing. Minor actually. Frames 203-205 setup a nice hang in the air. 206 seems to head down a bit fast by comparison and you seem to have this held for 207 perhaps for this reason. You may need something closer in spacing to 205 for frame 206. Don’t be afraid of hang-time in the jump. With this adjusted 206 position, perhaps 207 could be on something more of an arch in the leap. As it looks now there is a rather straight shot into the bottom of the bounce on frame 208.

   The bounce has a lot of energy. Perhaps you could put a little more overlap into the movement with the legs/feet dragging behind the change in direction down into frame 108 and then out again on frames 108-110. Just a thought. Oh, and the rope settles rather suddenly in the las few frames. Take the last 2 or 3 frames out and that issue goes away.

   Love what I’m seeing. I’m exited to see where all of this is going.

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   Erik | May 26, 2008 at 05:01

   Oops. My bad. In the second to last paragraph I intended to indicate into frame 208 for down direction, and frames 208-210 for overlap on the up-swing after the bounce. Sorry, didn’t mean to confuse matters.

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   The J | May 26, 2008 at 19:25

   yes your getting there, now would be nice to see what he is running form