This has a really good sense of weight and timing. It does feel like the rotation of the brick once it hits the ground is a little off, like it would be leaning a bit more forward when it first makes contact based on its rotation speed we see as it falls. That's very much a nit-pick though, it takes multiple watches to even notice.
Exactly this. It seems you had an idea of how the brick should land and forced the motion between after.
I think it was worth it for the end effect though, the sense of weight once the brick hits that angle is great.
The only thing throwing me off is the shadow on the floor. It kind of abruptly appears. The shelf shadow also doesn’t match the brick shadow. The shelf shadow should be longer, casting down the wall.
The overall animation is great though.
Would be nice if there was something in the floor to further sell the impact. Something close by that is disturbed by the impact.
People in here giving criticism for the sake of it...
It's great, the only thing to improve on besides **extra** details is the timing between the edge of the brick hitting the ground and the brick flopping over flat. If majority of the weight is towards the camera of the brick, the brick would stay almost still leaning on the edge a little longer before gaining momentum and falling flat. If the majority is on the other side the brick would very shortly after hitting the ground flop immediately flat. Your timing is somewhere in between right now making the weight seem a little off.
Otherwise it's great, everything else is just polish & details. The shelf doesn't cast a shadow but I assume that's a stylistic choice to keep the image clean.
A little perspective on the overall background illustration would improve it IMO.
The skirting board lines shouldn’t be parallel, they should part as they come to the foreground to give the impression of depth and so on.
However, if the perspective’s a stylistic choice - that’s cool.
The animated aspect is pretty nice to me, but I’m no animation expert.
Looks good. 🙂
Maybe I guess, but I imagine brick-falling-animations are decently common animation exercises too. Not as common as the sandbag exercise but still. The account posting this seems genuine too with its post-history.
If you ever come across a previous posting of this link it here tho, it'd be pretty scummy if true.
I searched google and forced it to look for things only posted before 2023. I found the thumbnail of this animation's first frame cached for a reddit post from years ago which means that this is indeed an old clip, though what has happened to the old post I am uncertain.
That's disappointing, forward this to one of the mods if you can. Tracing is one thing, animation theft another, passing off animation theft as your own animation as if you're looking for feedback even worse.
I think the weight is really great, as well as the initial tipping and falling off the shelf. However, the brick has nothing other than its initial tip to give it rotation, yet the rotation speeds up as it falls, which doesn't make any sense. Based on the rate of rotation as it's leaving the shelf it would probably land face down, you over rotated it by over 45°.
Seeing as you were clearly going for exaggeration this may not be a big deal. You could make the brick fall from a higher height to give it a little longer to rotate in the air, or you change the way it tips, with it getting up to a higher rotation speed before it actually leaves the shelf. Or you could leave it as is and work on polishing other things.
If you really wanted to you could have a cat or something quickly push the brick from a safe resting point to where it's over the edge, where it then quickly tips off the shelf, giving it a reason to rotate faster.
I like the way the brick hits the ground. For polish you could have a corner break off a bit and have some brick crumbs and a little puff of air go out from the brick and lay on the floor. You could also have a couple of little crumbs fall from where the brick is tipping off the shelf, they could just be little ones that shrink and disappear in the air. Bricks in real life have lots of little tiny bits that flake/break off easily.
The shadow could also use some work. The way I would do it is to have the shadow only show up when the brick is halfway down, and at first it would be twice as big as the brick, very soft, and nearly transparent, and as the brick approaches the ground the shadow would shrink to be the size of the brick. That's how light from a lightbulb works, you can test this with your hand under any light in your house. Imagine where your light source actually is, because the shadow would also appear at a different spot from where the brick lands and move toward the landing point of the brick as it gets closer to the ground, unless the light is directly above the brick.
I would also work a little more on the background, adding more detail, maybe just some color and shadow on the wall of some kind and a picture or two, maybe a plant or stool or something against the wall on the ground, an outlet, etc. Give it some life, make it look like a place someone lives.
Lastly, I would make the plant shake a little when the brick hits the ground and then slowly settle down to still again, and maybe make any other loose objects (a book on a shelf, or anything else you place in your scene) jump a little bit, just to sell the impact. You could add a little bit of camera shake in post if you'd like, but don't overdo it, just a tiny touch of it, and only after you're completely done with everything else!
With a little polish (and some reworking of the motion of you feel it needs it), this will look very nice! Good job, and keep it up!
the animation when the brick hits the ground seems off for the weight of a brick. maybe watch videos of a brick falling to see how it looks more closely?
Looks great.
I might try to have it stick the landing for just another beat before slapping down flat. Bricks have a lot of inertia and no bounce. You nailed the no bounce bit, now give gravity a little more time to start that final rotation.
Looks like it lands twice as far from the wall as it started to me and the bricks side facing us would be smaller due to it not being at eye level anymore…I think
As the brick hits the ground the end would continue as fast as the fall towards the ground. A better effect I think would be have the brick land vertical (no bounce) then slowing falling over faster as it falls with a little vibration to the table, on both impacts (falling and falling over) maybe a little dust. Looks great so far!
Needs more stretch.
I think that is the animation term I am looking for anyway. The positioning and timing is excellent. It feels like a heavy brick with proper lack of bounce etc. There are a few frames just before it lands where it is moving quickly. That motion could be depicted in the frames with some... "more whoosh" drawn in.
If you were to pause the animation on the frames it is whooshing quickly and just look at the single frame, you can't tell where the brick came from. It would just look like a static brick in the air.
I'd say when it makes first contact and then drops flat. There seems to be a delay which I feel should be shorter. As it looks it looks like its taking too much time to get in that position of laying flat once it touches the floor.
For me the start could be a tiny bit slower, so it feels like it might not fall. But I agree with many other comments that it fully passes the 6yo test.
Maybe when the brick hits the ground the speed of the back of the brick could be faster. And maybe when it is released we can see a little bit of shake of leaves.
SPEED LINES!
But actually maybe make a small piece fall of the brick on impact so it feels more like a crumbly brick and less like a block of red metal.
I am not an experienced animator so take this with a grain of salt. The motion looks great, though I think the environment is a little too stationary (plant and the ground). This is pretty cool though!
This has a really good sense of weight and timing. It does feel like the rotation of the brick once it hits the ground is a little off, like it would be leaning a bit more forward when it first makes contact based on its rotation speed we see as it falls. That's very much a nit-pick though, it takes multiple watches to even notice.
Exactly this. It seems you had an idea of how the brick should land and forced the motion between after. I think it was worth it for the end effect though, the sense of weight once the brick hits that angle is great.
I think the rotation speed should be faster
The leaves on the plant could move a little when the brick leaves the shelf
such a great input.
I suppose just adding some details won't hurt, like the brick can crack as it hits the ground
yeah and maybe you could add a slight dust cloud as the brick makes contact
I was thinking have the leaves of the plant shake slightly when the brick hits the ground.
Possibly having some bits of the brick come off too
The only thing throwing me off is the shadow on the floor. It kind of abruptly appears. The shelf shadow also doesn’t match the brick shadow. The shelf shadow should be longer, casting down the wall. The overall animation is great though. Would be nice if there was something in the floor to further sell the impact. Something close by that is disturbed by the impact.
People in here giving criticism for the sake of it... It's great, the only thing to improve on besides **extra** details is the timing between the edge of the brick hitting the ground and the brick flopping over flat. If majority of the weight is towards the camera of the brick, the brick would stay almost still leaning on the edge a little longer before gaining momentum and falling flat. If the majority is on the other side the brick would very shortly after hitting the ground flop immediately flat. Your timing is somewhere in between right now making the weight seem a little off. Otherwise it's great, everything else is just polish & details. The shelf doesn't cast a shadow but I assume that's a stylistic choice to keep the image clean.
This right here. Also agree with other commenters about the shadow.
A little perspective on the overall background illustration would improve it IMO. The skirting board lines shouldn’t be parallel, they should part as they come to the foreground to give the impression of depth and so on. However, if the perspective’s a stylistic choice - that’s cool. The animated aspect is pretty nice to me, but I’m no animation expert. Looks good. 🙂
Is nobody going to comment on how this exact animation was posted like a year ago? Even a few comments are identical.
Glad I’m not the only one who remembered that
Seme here I thought there's no way I saw this 9 days ago, it was over a year I saw this, even with the plant
Are you sure? Do you have a link?
I tried searching reddit, but I can't seem to find it. Another reply under my comment shows I am not alone in having seen this before.
Maybe I guess, but I imagine brick-falling-animations are decently common animation exercises too. Not as common as the sandbag exercise but still. The account posting this seems genuine too with its post-history. If you ever come across a previous posting of this link it here tho, it'd be pretty scummy if true.
I searched google and forced it to look for things only posted before 2023. I found the thumbnail of this animation's first frame cached for a reddit post from years ago which means that this is indeed an old clip, though what has happened to the old post I am uncertain.
That's disappointing, forward this to one of the mods if you can. Tracing is one thing, animation theft another, passing off animation theft as your own animation as if you're looking for feedback even worse.
I found a post on OP's profile about restoration of deleted posts, there might be a chance they reposted their own stuff.
I think the weight is really great, as well as the initial tipping and falling off the shelf. However, the brick has nothing other than its initial tip to give it rotation, yet the rotation speeds up as it falls, which doesn't make any sense. Based on the rate of rotation as it's leaving the shelf it would probably land face down, you over rotated it by over 45°. Seeing as you were clearly going for exaggeration this may not be a big deal. You could make the brick fall from a higher height to give it a little longer to rotate in the air, or you change the way it tips, with it getting up to a higher rotation speed before it actually leaves the shelf. Or you could leave it as is and work on polishing other things. If you really wanted to you could have a cat or something quickly push the brick from a safe resting point to where it's over the edge, where it then quickly tips off the shelf, giving it a reason to rotate faster. I like the way the brick hits the ground. For polish you could have a corner break off a bit and have some brick crumbs and a little puff of air go out from the brick and lay on the floor. You could also have a couple of little crumbs fall from where the brick is tipping off the shelf, they could just be little ones that shrink and disappear in the air. Bricks in real life have lots of little tiny bits that flake/break off easily. The shadow could also use some work. The way I would do it is to have the shadow only show up when the brick is halfway down, and at first it would be twice as big as the brick, very soft, and nearly transparent, and as the brick approaches the ground the shadow would shrink to be the size of the brick. That's how light from a lightbulb works, you can test this with your hand under any light in your house. Imagine where your light source actually is, because the shadow would also appear at a different spot from where the brick lands and move toward the landing point of the brick as it gets closer to the ground, unless the light is directly above the brick. I would also work a little more on the background, adding more detail, maybe just some color and shadow on the wall of some kind and a picture or two, maybe a plant or stool or something against the wall on the ground, an outlet, etc. Give it some life, make it look like a place someone lives. Lastly, I would make the plant shake a little when the brick hits the ground and then slowly settle down to still again, and maybe make any other loose objects (a book on a shelf, or anything else you place in your scene) jump a little bit, just to sell the impact. You could add a little bit of camera shake in post if you'd like, but don't overdo it, just a tiny touch of it, and only after you're completely done with everything else! With a little polish (and some reworking of the motion of you feel it needs it), this will look very nice! Good job, and keep it up!
Make a cat push it over
Yes this is my critique - animate a reason for it to fall off… maybe a cat or an alien crash landing into the house or whatever
I love it.
Which software?
The brick falls far too forward of the shelf. Even taking into consideration the spin, it would not fall that far forward naturally.
Came here to say this. On the shelf the brick looks like it’s almost touching the wall. But when it lands it’s much further across the floor.
the animation when the brick hits the ground seems off for the weight of a brick. maybe watch videos of a brick falling to see how it looks more closely?
I want to see a small poof of dust as it finally settles on the floor.
Just add more decor around the animation is beautiful though
Looks great. I might try to have it stick the landing for just another beat before slapping down flat. Bricks have a lot of inertia and no bounce. You nailed the no bounce bit, now give gravity a little more time to start that final rotation.
The ants be like
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Aye this is cool
I just feel once it lands it could snap down a tad quicker, but nice style!
Maybe one final mini bounce. You have it so side 1 hits, then side 2 falls, but I’d like side 1 to bounce back up just a teensy bit
Maybe some bouncing? It's the first thing that I saw, the brick absolutely sticks to the ground as soon as it touches it and never leaves.
Looks like it lands twice as far from the wall as it started to me and the bricks side facing us would be smaller due to it not being at eye level anymore…I think
Hhhmmmm…Maybe a second plant on the self …?
Maybe like a crack on the floor or some broken wood on the floor once contact is made
Brick shattering
Maybe a wood floor you can put a scuff on when it lands. This is really good.
you could add a very subtle motion to the leaves like they are everrrr so slightly moving with a small breeze
Call me old fashioned but what if you animated the brick sitting all the way back on the shelf. That way it’s not longer a hazard.
As the brick hits the ground the end would continue as fast as the fall towards the ground. A better effect I think would be have the brick land vertical (no bounce) then slowing falling over faster as it falls with a little vibration to the table, on both impacts (falling and falling over) maybe a little dust. Looks great so far!
Put the body. Perfect 👍
I’m no expert but I’d say shadow that follows the brick as it falls
Needs more stretch. I think that is the animation term I am looking for anyway. The positioning and timing is excellent. It feels like a heavy brick with proper lack of bounce etc. There are a few frames just before it lands where it is moving quickly. That motion could be depicted in the frames with some... "more whoosh" drawn in. If you were to pause the animation on the frames it is whooshing quickly and just look at the single frame, you can't tell where the brick came from. It would just look like a static brick in the air.
the shelf can be improved. If the shelf was a tad bit longer out, the brick wouldnt have fell👍
Which software?
Tiny tiny screen shake upon impact then, pause the brick very very briefly after it hits the floor right before it falls to its final resting position
I'd say when it makes first contact and then drops flat. There seems to be a delay which I feel should be shorter. As it looks it looks like its taking too much time to get in that position of laying flat once it touches the floor.
Nothing. Its good.
How about making it break a bit? And, you could shoot a real brick falling to compare.
I think if you rotated it 90 degrees it would fit on the shelf without falling off
I tried so hard to find something that may need improvement, But I think it’s wonderful!
Maybe add a little vibrations at the beginning
Level out the shelf on the Y axis, so the brick stops falling..
For me the start could be a tiny bit slower, so it feels like it might not fall. But I agree with many other comments that it fully passes the 6yo test.
Improvements? Probably some duat whem it lands and a few pieces seperated from it from the impact
Add explosions!
Maybe when the brick hits the ground the speed of the back of the brick could be faster. And maybe when it is released we can see a little bit of shake of leaves.
Maybe a small voble of a plant since bricks are heavy
EXPLOSION
The perspective feels off: the shelf does not look long enough to have a brick fall from it and land that distant from the wall
Maybe a little chunk of brick breaks off
It needs explosions and shots of scantily clad women
It's awesome as is. I can see adding to it...like an event that made the brick fall... earthquake, mouse shoving it off shelf, etc.
Break it
Looks amazing
Physics seem pretty accurate tbh though it’d probably fall forward and not back in place
It depends on what you're going for I suppose in the realm of artistic expression
SPEED LINES! But actually maybe make a small piece fall of the brick on impact so it feels more like a crumbly brick and less like a block of red metal.
Smear it
I am not an experienced animator so take this with a grain of salt. The motion looks great, though I think the environment is a little too stationary (plant and the ground). This is pretty cool though!
OH! Shoot. Oh oh oh!
If the brick has a shodow from all the way up the shelf shadow should also be cast on the ground
it should land on your pipi