Aw haha, yeah, he seems pretty defeated, or miserable! Poor guy, I bet that comment will cheer him up!

Awesome, yeah, you caught on to what my teacher had told me! I knew his body was shifting around when I animated it, but because class was going to happen an hour after, I said "fuck it", and decided not to change it.

You also picked up on the sudden jump of his head after it goes back down from the initial startle. Very acute of you, yeah, again my teacher had pointed that out and said I should clean the arc up to make it flow in a circle in perspective, then ease it into a horizontal curve near the end if that makes sense.

But, he told me for some reason, against the principles, the rough seemed to make that pop work because it had an almost ball bounce quality to it for some reason that didn't translate in the tie down, which I totally agree with.

A few other things I was told to improve on was to make the shoulders go down instead of hunching when he becomes startled and stretches up. In the rough he felt as if it was justified because of the opposing force of the arms pulling up to carry the momentum of the hunched shoulders. He also told me to keep the nose graphic and cheat it in the extreme stretch even though I drew it correctly in that frame to keep the flow of the silhouette of the nose consistent and uniform.

Overall he loved the hunched pose in the beginning and said I had a lot of appeal, acting, and strong posing overall, but I should go over and clean up little things here and there. He also went over what I can do to draw hands with more ease since I draw them from the skeletal structure first, which consequently leads to really fucked up amounts of work instead of streamlining it to mittens or circle + fingers.

I know this comment is lengthy, but I feel you would possibly be able to learn from my mistakes too using the input of a guy who's worked for Don Bluth!