 Welcome back it is Thursday and that means acting analysis for animators that's right and today I'm going to take a look at the movie us. There's a lot to unpack in this movie and there are many many fantastic analysis pieces online so I'm not going to go into the whole story and themes behind it these are more clips and moments that you might be able to apply to your animation shots so let's check them out. First one right here I thought was interesting in terms of adding a character introduction or a button or something interesting towards the end so as the characters hear something right in this case it's the honking of the boat outside so you can have something where you have foreground kind of a mid they kind of was in the same plane here but it's an interesting turn of I want to show this I want to show this now you think this is done but no you can have one more thing where this character pops up and this could be right at the end of the scene this could be something where the character comes up and the character says something right this could be all silence and then that's your pantomime and again this might be helpful to you if you stage it like this where it's in focus and blurry so your lip sync doesn't have to be super accurate but you still want to practice the body language and facial tics and head accents for lip sync I thought this could be an interesting way of kind of an intro to lip sync if you want to but I thought this as a contrasting move was very interesting and speaking of character intro you have this here where she's looking for a kid and again you can look at this in so many ways where this is your your sitting character this is your stand-up assignment so the character gets up and this would be the overlying thing of worry all the way to panic potential right so you have just your mechanical aspect of a shot but you can add something to it right there's the frightening aspect of I'm losing my kid where is my kid and that could be your shot at the same time you can go into this and I always like that stuff I like when you have two ways of showing off your skills one is full body mechanics and we've seen this and now after this boom close-up was very short close-up of a character where that character can react to the character that's now off screen it can be its own thing this could be pantomime body mechanics and then you get into lip sync so you want to show off lip sync without worrying about the body there are many many ways how you can use this but again I thought a very cool moment that could be applied to your animation shots now speaking of end and end button this could be something where your character is done and this would be it the kid the mother says go to bed and she says okay and again your shot could end like this or you add one more thing and this could be I mean this is just kind of visually with this we know she's back on their phone even though she said turn off your phone and this could be something that's a bit brawer maybe you can use with sound or maybe that is moving because the character is playing video games it's a bit more exaggerated but it's something again interesting where your scene doesn't have to end because the lip sync is done you can add one more thing to give one more insight into who this character is if they obey or disobey or do something else now this is not really something you can apply to your shot but I did want to show it just because the complexity of this of this movie is so awesome I love how before she tells the story she has that specific move with her leg it's almost like a ballet move why because we know she took ballet lessons she's done that before it's just an interesting moment of something that's from the past that's still part of her and kind of influences her movements anyway again it's tricky to pull off in one shot on your reel but I just wanted to point that out if you haven't seen this movie this movie is full of awesome stuff like that but going back to something that's potentially more useful in your shots if you have this not that you have to do this with character exits but again it's one of those things when you know this if you watch my clips I love stuff like that where you have an environment it could be a prop where the character uses that as a surprise intro right but I like about this is you got that one two she got two different characters but I like about this too is that now as he says his line as you're seeing what's going on your spoiler you can see what she does right because this is something something I'm going to say to here and I love her reaction like what did he just say it's just a cool moment again of technically this is your lip sink that's all you're going to do but what if you do have a second character how is that second character going to react to this because again your characters need to listen to each other and this is just a great moment of wait did he just say this what and it's a great moment to end this and it's also nicely staged again where he moves I mean moves he says his line but then stops so that gives us just enough direction to look at her he doesn't flail around run around so we missed this moment so in terms of leading the audience it's not I mean it's not huge like he points to her and leads to her face but I thought it's very very clear in terms of where to look especially if you have audio but it's a cool moment that I could see in the shot that you would do if you have a one character and cool too because of this right because you're having because having this this this proper this piece of whatever this vehicle here or whatever set piece yeah this could be a wall this could be a couple of trees over this it also gives you the opportunity to not animate the whole body right you can still do something where you show an offset here and then kind of a weight difference right a lean is a bit different than just standing there two characters and lip sync and reaction without really having to deal with the whole body and the hips and the legs and weight shifts I think again having a set gives you the freedom to kind of change things around to kind of just focus on what you want to focus here being the lip sync and the reaction of the other character there we go little bits and pieces of that movie that hopefully could be helpful to your shots maybe it's a springboard of ideas but generally that movie there's so much more to it I highly recommend that you watch it if you have and you got some thoughts about it comments open let me know if you have any thoughts about that movie but that's it and again if you think that this is cool and helpful you want to apply this to your own shots why not I have a workshop link in the description we can work together on your shots you can sign up at any time now if you're still watching this of course thank you so much for watching this you can like and subscribe if you want to if you do subscribe hit that bell button and hit the notifications whatever all those options are because you do want to get notified about all my uploads I mean only if you do want to get notified I'm not going to tell you what to do but if you want to subscribe and you hit that button there's this option anyway I'm gonna leave this here if you're still watching this you're way too patient I will see you next week 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