 Welcome back it is Thursday and that means acting analysis for animators and today I'm going to take a look at episode 2 of Killing Eve Can't wait to watch season 2. It's not out yet for me. I can't watch it yet But right now let's dive into episode 2 of season 1. Let's check it out First up is this walk and this is just an example for contrast where you have a character that knows what she's doing She's very confident while she has her arms down It's very tense and very nervous and you can see how she's barely moving the head You can see the rhythm how there's a lot more up and down She has a swing to her arms much more relaxed compared to her who is stiff She looks down. It's a stiff head. She doesn't quite know what is going on You can see this in from behind or you have those quick little steps Again, she doesn't know where she is what she's doing She looks around and this is all serving the contrast often You can see this here if I go back look at her shoulders How they go back and forth in Y if you're an animator here in Y Left right left right very relaxed same thing here here You can see even though the arm is slightly cut off even though, you know I'm a fan of gestures and movements that are not completely in frame, but you can see that relaxed Walk, you know the steps taking out the keys. It's all very relaxed Whereas if you go back to her on this side here looking around quick steps Much more contained you can see this here too in terms of contrast as she trails And then has to kind of catch up and all those little fast little moves again Just contrasting your characters if you do have two characters think about how could you contrast them in terms of posing in terms of Movements how fast they move just tell us something about how they feel so we know their difference Unless of course the similarity of a character is you know the the main point of the shot Of course, there are always exceptions to all my examples But if you have multiple characters try to make them distinct and different if that's what the shot calls for But think of it in terms of posing and movement and gestures and just how fast which is everything that they do is Based on how they feel their emotional state what happened before to them or what they think is going to happen afterwards Their goals their actions all of that goes into your posing and your movement in terms of timing Same example is this one where they talk and he wants to tell her something that might not tell her something That is not good news to her so you can see that reaction here and she doesn't really want to hear it So he starts off with what he wants to say and turn the sound back on so you can hear The interruption as he starts going and then you can see what she does This is so good I turn the sound off so what about this is that you can have lip sync like between Her and him they can both talk you couldn't just be just one character But it could be a lip sync that's just for one character and the character tells someone what they want of them which is exactly this example and This person doesn't want to hear it now you can do this with no interruption So this is the length of your shot no interruption in your lip sync or what you do is you have your character do something I'm also a fan of characters doing secondary actions right where you can have your lip sync in your dialogue and interaction everything But the character is doing something while performing those lines So now she can use this since that's the setup of the scene there. She can use this to do this So she interrupts the whole thing you can put in an artificial pause in your lip sync and in your dialogue and in the Whole shot and now what I love is that that look and this that it like yeah Yeah, I did this I don't want to hear this and because you are artificially adding this and adding a break in the lip sync Now you have the option to do whatever you want acting wise It's your creative freedom there and you can have that a look there You can even go back to just a staring contest of that and I love this and I love that a look here Just when we hear that the blender off-screen is done. She has a little look up Okay, I guess I'm done now and it's so subtle or you have even a little bit In the eyebrows launches again, just watch your eyes little face It's very subtle and I love that quick little look as if she's happy again I'm done and then it continues with the line But it's such a great moment of using secondary action using props to kind of change the shot if needed I mean in this case obviously it's part of the scene But again if you have a scene where it's there's audio and you want to break it up You want to kind of change this and not make it you know the kind of the same as the the source Then maybe think about where could you place your characters? What's environment? What are the props? What can you do to artificially add potentially a break and where the characters have to stop now? Of course, this is tricky if someone talks in the line that you suddenly pause and then if it feels like you're hitting pause on Audio so you have to kind of find a way maybe maybe kind of edit the audio to make that work I'm just saying this could be if it's possible for you to do that an example of Taking an audio piece and then really making it your own changing it changing the subtext Using the environments and using props that could really make it your own in your own more creative and original Interpretation of that audio piece next up is something else that's very subtle But I love every single moment that she does here So she puts on this mask but actually she concoct something that's not very healthy there And this could just be something where you put on the mask and you think about constraints You're thinking about you know handling this you probably have some spline controllers to do this And just probably concentrating on intersections and all of that stuff which is understandable and how this really folds around the head This would be very very tricky to do in animation. But what I love is what she does here This just that moment that even though she prepares something that's probably given a character very toxic very lethal She's preparing something where someone is going to die is very serious and she has a moment of that's kind of Kind of a pain to put that on just that moment of Levity of humor and of course you can do whatever you want to but even in something like this where it's very technical where you Interact with props. You can think about what could I do character wise that makes it funny sad Whatever you want to do But it gives us a little bit more of an insight into the character and almost distracts from this overly technical aspect of animation Where it's just really character driven and I love that just that a look the winding of eyes went to blink And then she gets back It's also just the contrast of that slow now. All right. Hmm. Okay. Well, I'm ready So good and staying within the the subtleties and breaking up of shots. Here's something Jesus cracks me up. Sorry. Oh, it cracks me up. So this is the line where she asked Can you do this for me as possible? And you know, you kind of say something paraphrasing, you know Of course everything is possible. I can do this for you and it's kind of to impress her Or just somewhat braggy and she just she's just not buying this right. She has that look of really and you got that I rolled great besides that awesome that Just that look is great. This is something else where let's pretend This is your shop and you get two characters and the contrast of you know, the visuals and everything standing sitting But it's a longer piece and you don't really want to have one long piece as we go back You can see it's a long longer piece where they talk So what could you do to break this up? It's not so potentially boring or just kind of static if they say something that Warns a reaction. You could cut away to another character And then this character could be you know, if pretend that this audio piece is serious Then this moment could be the moment of comedy now again, you don't want to copy exactly the shot But you can think about do I have a moment in my line where they say something where I can cut to someone else Reacting to that line and this could be with an eye roll. This could be with a laugh This could be actually turning towards them because they're not suddenly interested This could be them talking about something very important or about money like a heist or something in a coffee place And this is a person drinking coffee over here in the conversation going what are they talking about? So you can kind of add interest with other characters that maybe Heighten the stakes, you know if they talk about a crime and this character is listening That makes it potentially more interesting and dangerous that they're talking about this in the open in the public with other people So think about that too if you have a longer shot Maybe there is a way to break it up and it doesn't have to be you know Five shots and make this a whole sequence but just a cutaway to character listening and reacting It gives you the opportunity to do a lip sync You know all that performance that's tied to the lip sync and then cut away to a character listening and reacting with pantomime And it's not part of the audio at all and again You're bringing your own creativity and your own acting into a piece where usually lip sync you are tied to the length to the inflections The rhythm and again You can just add your own things to it and potentially also do less lip sync if it's you know too much work Where you cut away for a couple seconds That's couple sex you don't have to do the lip sync and just the character listening and eye darting and emote and processing and looking around I think that could be really fun and again You can change the idea of the shot the intensity of the shot What do you want to do with or whoever you put into that cutaway into that second shot potentially, but there you go That's it for episode two I don't want to go on more because the show in general is awesome You should just watch the whole thing if you can but if you think that this was cool and interesting And you want to use that in your shots as always I have workshops you can sign up We can work together on implementing these kind of ideas into your shots to make your shots potentially even better So let me know email comment What do you want to do? 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