 Welcome back today's Thursday and that means acting analysis for animators and today I'm going to take a look at the fantastic first season of the show Barry Let's not waste time. There's a lot to go through so I'm gonna go straight into the shots All right in this discussion We have this character and Barry talking about jobs and everything I'm gonna talk about prop usage But also a gesture at the beginning. I love what he does here Usually, I mean usually there's always a time and place for everything but pointing at things is always kind of it On the nose bit pointy, you know, but what I like about this is that he goes no way way way way way and he goes from this gesture with just bringing down the fingers into You sit down. It's such a cool Combination of both of them in animation. I would say don't do this You don't want to cover faces and eyes, but live action is always Some leeway there, but I love that Look and always his reactions are great and you can see throughout those things have a shot later on Right, he's constantly somewhat awkward. He's always kind of not quite sure what to say or what to do But anyway, let's go back to the second one. I love this and pay attention to that It's not a chair that just has a backrest. He also has arm rests. So what happens when he tries to sit down? I love this now again You might you have to find the right place in time and you shot obviously to use the prop with the chair like this But I love this. I love the idea that the prop gives the actor an Opportunity to do this and you can do this where he gets off of this much more relaxed He is a lot more trouble here So a lot of chances and opportunities to do something interesting and it's also how he turns this around and goes Kind of to make a point Second sequence is a discussion between these two again You can see he has the awkward look is not quite looking at him He is with his eyes, but it's kind of turned away. He's kind of off there He's tiptoeing around here and you can see the contrast with him who's also fantastic in the show Well, you can see he's calm barely blinks. He doesn't really care and you can see Barry has no lots of a little little up and down little steps there and You can see this throughout the whole sequence and there's a throughout the whole season in every episode You can see this where he inhales and gets ready to say something and all that stuff now Why am I showing you this so you have all of those moments there where he seems just kind of nervous Doesn't know what to say because he's not in his element. He wants to be an actor. He wants to take His classes. That's why they talk now. The reason I'm showing you this is Because of this sequence he in his spare time or in his spare time in his, you know Actual job is a hitman now look at how he looks how he walks how he says things the confidence He knows where to go. I mean he's looking at this target here and warning there is a Bloody scene coming up. So he's ready to shoot but you can see this you can see his expressions He's much more determined to angry, but you know, he has a focus. He realizes way something happened. He's already dead Looks around and sees these guys and he has problems with his weapon and look at this There's no nervous up and down in his route. There's no side-to-side twist He is straight and squared and he has that focus look look at that He goes hey guys And you know you got three people one with the gun that could be ready to shoot him You would think that he would be nervous and shifting around but no, this is his element He is confident and look at this. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't shoot and then he gets ready spoiler Look at that and then Complete focus is ready and kills them all Looks at this and walks away So that to me is again This is tricky to potentially put this into one of your shots where you only have maybe six to ten seconds I totally understand but as a whole I like the idea of a character that is you know fish a fish out of water It's out of his element or her element and doesn't know what to do and you can do this with those nervous Back and forth the route up and down lots of blinks looking around and maybe you can incorporate that into your shot We're character is like this and then switches for whatever reason he hears something She sees something or the character gets to a place where they're back to being familiar With that environment and the skills and then you can see that awesome switch of okay Now I know what to do and then they focus on it So something to think about as you want to do a gear change that gear change could be of unfamiliar to familiar But let's continue with the sequences here. We have a an exchange between her and him He is hitting on her all the time and he has that confident You can see that the hips here. So yeah, he's ready to talk to her and she goes What is going on throughout a long time to show she resists spoiler at the end? She won't there's a there's a cute couple and you can see what he does at the end It's mostly it's not this to me. It's just that I know this is just a simple thing And I love this to me. It's like an added thing of confidence It's like, all right. Well, I'm gonna call you I'll see you later. All right It's like someone that goes away and tap something someone's back on the way out or something But it's a small simple thing that is outside of the dialogue But again using the prop and it's an interesting exit because the character is gone And it's just his hand and his arm with that exit again It's something very very small But I love those little character moments where imagine this is your shot And the thing is the character is confident. Yes, that means confident And what can you do to show this? Well, you can show this You know with the stands that type of thing where and the way he talks and you can have certain posing But it could also be gestures and all those things outside of the audio with something like that Next up is this fantastic sequence where he is somewhat of a prisoner here with these Hit guys and hit men and mafia type of Russian mob thing and he has this around his neck It's a bike lock So he can't move it can't escape But they're still, you know, somewhat relaxed enough that he can eat Now what do I like about this? He can't reach this he goes And does this I love this. I love this. It's so good You might argue that this is a bit broad. I don't know that moment He's handing it up for the camera, but I love this I mean in terms of cartooniness and for your shots, this would be great But I love this he could just Pull this but now he's doing this This extra little tiny things I just love that moment again prop usage a constraint So whatever you can do with the prop that will force the character to come up With solutions to get to this which is his goal here So that's why I'm always harping on props because I think they give you so many more ideas to do something funny That being said pulling a little tablecloth thing with drinks on there You will see this later on. I mean, I will talk about the illusionist, but that is later on Next up we're back to this character and he has a conversation and it's being called For his audition here audition and audition Again, he's asked this question with her But what I love is when he's done they tell him Hey, you're ready because okay, I gotta go look at his face after this It's so good. It's very small very subtle, but he finishes this discussion He's very pleased with himself because he gets close and closer to his goal And he has that expression of he's all happy That is because of the phone conversation and then he gets back and focuses on the person that calls him And then has this moment of oh, yeah, yeah, this is switch of I'm in my la la land I'm dreaming about this woman and I'm back to oh reality. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. I'm coming And he has that bill not let's watch this again in real time. I just love that those subtle little moments there, right? He finishes this Oh, yeah Oh, yeah So good so good. This is actually after just those shots that I talked about He gets into this and this is just such a cool display of so many small little Subtle things where so he talks about an audition here and it says I'm gonna give you two options here, right? So you can see how he comes in He's happy his confidence. He knows what to do. He kind of plays it up towards the people here. All right Well, that's what I do here. All right. I'm gonna give you two things, right? Then he talks about with the character He says his name and it's the character who is doing blah blah blah in that scene And then he does the scene one All right, and it's the line is I'm waiting here. So this is one version of I'm waiting here and it doesn't seem super confident in animation. You will argue. It's twins There are always somewhat different rules in animation versus live action, but he has this and now he goes Two and I love this too. He gets out of this mode blink All right. It's a blinker. It's a change of scene in his head. I'm changing now character I'm just quickly telling people all right two and he's not completely Different here where it's just subtle enough to go right two and then watch this Hey Oh, it's all good. It's so small. I hope you can see this It's this moment of hey, we're waiting here and it's much more aggressive The character is much more confident and you can see this with the stare Right, there's no blink It's focusing on who he's talking to and I look at this look at the shoulders and the root he has that little Impatient up and down ready Oh, it's tiny, but it's so good so good Oh, and then look at that and then he's done with the scene again blink for this is now a switch I'm changing back to his you know charming. All right. Thank you very much. Do you want something else? No, okay Well, thank you so much and then he realizes this is just crappy. I'm not gonna get this. What am I doing here? Watch the switch Just for a moment. He's back to being uh All right, that's my life So good so all those things all those little things in here and this could be something I mean you would have to find the line in your audio to animate this but All those changes between this is his character. He has a addition one addition two Back to his previous character being charming and back to his true self There's so many things he crammed into this where as an assignment It would be your gear change and again, you got to find the proper line and audio to make this work But think about this. That's why I always like when people do animation exercises or the shots where it's an actor on stage Because then you have the license to go from one self to a pretend character to a good actor bad actor Or then reacting to a bad audition So I think that type of setting for your shot gives you so many options and especially a license to overact on purpose Now i'm back to props because you know, I love props He found his confidence and he is talking to him and telling him I am done with this That's it and oh look at this He realizes oh my god, I just flipped him off. It's technically his friend It's kind of an abusive relationship, but you know, they provide for each other and do the whole day drop stuff But he has this moment of But prop this is why I'm here. Okay, so he slammed this down He interrupted him playing golf and you can see how he does not care at all He is still focused. He hasn't changed his stance. He hasn't changed his grip. Look what he does Okay Well, don't really care And does this I love this prop usage onto prop usage and I know I know I love props and you know You have to make sure that you can also do all the acting in pantomime without the usage of sets and props and sounds I totally understand But I love this it just emphasizes to me that he doesn't want to break his concentration Or his you know the moment of hey, I'm playing here. Let's get out of here. I'm gonna keep playing I'm not gonna take off the grip was you know, he prepared the grip for the swing He could take that hand off and squat down and you know kneel down and and take this away But no, he uses this because I don't want to change any of this. I want to play This one's great too. And again, it all depends on the audio He thought that Barry was dead. He sees him. He's really happy Now he does something where he squeezes his hands later at the table to show how happy he is Now I know in the audio he goes So watch this right he goes, I almost threw up here. I'm so excited and then watch his hands and Not this here this Right, okay. I know that this Is in the audio now potentially you might have a scene where he says I'm so happy to see you and then there's a pause And he does this and maybe you can find audio of a grunt or something or you can make your own sounds But I thought just for a moment, this is an interesting thing of well, there's so far away How can I show that I'm happy to see you and it's through this very intense Squeeze, which is just a different form of this, right? I'm happy to see you I'm hugging you with a squeeze and a lift and this is just another way of showing this So I just like the different ideas and it's interesting to me watching those tv shows and movies and Seeing those actors coming up with all of those interesting different ideas going back to this guy He's part of the rush mob. He is checking for Barry This is the stage in the acting school and he gets on stage and does this imaginary singing Actually, he does sing and then when he does this, he's just a bit too loud at the end He kind of repeats the song he goes And he has this moment of wait, I can't be too loud. Maybe someone hurt me. I love that little change there that And then he stops and then he has this moment of Oh, yeah, thank you. Thank you. He imagines that there's an audience that cheers him on I love this. I love the change from this to oh I'll do this, but oh wait. I'm on stage People listen to me and then this acknowledgement of He might be hearing applause from the audience. That's obviously not there and he goes. Oh, well, thank you So good. So good. This whole show is so good season one HBO you can watch it season two just start. I'm going to start probably this weekend with episode one of season two And that's it from me very who watch it if you can I absolutely loved it And that's it from me. Like I said, if you watch this whole thing as always Thank you. As always, you're very patient Give this a like and subscribe if you want to and hit that bell button because I do upload a lot So you get all the notifications and I'll see you tomorrow for my next clip