 Welcome back to another animation analysis and today I want to take a look at the box assassin filled by Jeremy Schaefer. It's a crazy one-man project plus very talented people behind the voice and the music and the sound design and I want to take a look at some of those shots and sequences they're so good. Starting off right up the bat with the introduction where you have a camera move and a reveal of the character coming out. This already cracked me up just having the character fit inside the box and then the montage of where the assassin comes out of. Again everything comes with the camera move kind of drawing you in and it all comes closer and closer and closer. Let's love that. I love that little thing that comes out. So good. I'm shot with the intensity with the speed but also right off the bat it's just really well done. Already well animated all the details beautiful lighting and composition. Come on I'm gonna look at all that. So cool. That being a student project absolutely fantastic. And then bam into a cool transition too that it shoots into camera for a cut to black and then we get into an introduction of the main story. You can see with the establishing shot already this big in scale it's not a little tiny thing you got your atmospherics you got your environment effects you got a big set nice camera move a car animation too everything is there and establishes where we are kind of boxed in that shows where the characters are here and I love that too the introduction of a with this it tells us something how the character is just by closing the doors it's not like a nice neat closing both arms we don't know yet that he's holding something but it's just a cool this is a relaxed cool character it's a cool introduction bam then we see okay it must be a delivery person who's you got the menu or receipt you can see this here it matches okay this is character working for this company also love this I always talk about when you have the environment could be windy could be snow could be cold hot whatever the character should be reacting to it so it feels like the character is part of that environment and there we go he did that love this too so hand pose and how to lift this up but also starting the shot with a basically a walk and talk it's not the static shot the character is there's an interaction here there are changes of bottom mechanics there's movement there's a forward walk there's acting there's so much involved that's a cool first shot to establish a the character but also this is the quality behind this short and then we got reminds me of Voldemort got the introduction of the bad guys love that too just a little bit you can see this depending on what kind of monitor you're gonna watch this but it gives this character not enough room it's not comfortable space here and change his focus are we getting into a bigger acting moment with clean expressions clean silhouette nice poses nice moves and moments like that just the introduction of this is the characters of the weapons that's the danger that's involved with that'll relax pinky here's great still kind of staying hidden here with who the characters in terms of the face get the goons coming in ready for an attack and again you got elements coming in from the left from the right boxing him in making it less comfortable it's really nice framing choice there all the while the character walks backwards nicely frame two with the car with the highlights that we can really have the focus on this is the character here never forgetting that these are the elements of danger still not bother finding the character looking back below that to the ramp of intensity getting in getting closer ready to shoot the intensity in the face and then bam the first change ah that now triggers this guy to finally look we get a good look at the face and I love that too because even though we see the hands here for a moment you couldn't think was that just a ruse are the characters hands through the box and it's the character shooting but then you can see this like wait a minute no no no this is not what happens ah again it's the box assassin coming out here love that too is always ready regardless of how he jumps wherever it's ready against the target you like whoa what is going on and you get a slight look who the character is kind of nice look in terms of the render nice highlights even that I got a little change in the wrist movement in the gun still enough detail animation here we can see the full face you can see detail here that's animated and then and getting into a freeze frame there's voiceover so make sure to check out the link in the description with the actual youtube account and the Jeremy's twitter account as well but there's voice over here so actually watch this there's I'm going to skip this and fast forward and we're going back to him freaking out of this too good look at some physicality again make sense it's wet he would slip and again it's not just the one axis move somewhere it does move with the curve the complexity there of that run back and I love this too so it just goes into now the action you part getting into the car even for that you can get a little bit of a camera adjustment just for reframing but you can really sense how he opens up and sits down there's good weight in that and then we get into more cool actually moments here you can still see the silhouette that's nicely done too of this character here nice clean pose that's cool too I love all this I gave you frame there's something in there comes in there slightly hidden but he realizes that opens up the frame into just for now we see some highlights you see what's going on dodges that nice line here oh it just appears again out of a box is very consistent where that character is oh and I mean get to the back eye cool back eye design too come on the design the lighting the skin the facials but even a shot like this where this is the focus you still have this character here if you look at what it does it's enough detail to see where they're still detail animation here on the browse winding here the ease into even though that is off to the side there's still enough detail and all this and not just in the main character but even with the main character you can see all the subtle details and compression there you got your asymmetry in the mouth facial expressions everything is there is really nice detail in that animation there let's go back with little head accents there to flare of the shoulders lots of little detail there in moments like that too when he goes back and says as you can see how the body goes down a little bit and he has a little bit in the shoulder to push himself up and then as you want to say something he goes up a little bit you can see that as well with the eyebrows let's watch this see even something like that just there's always enough detail where the head accent fits the voice just the voice delivery you can believe that the voice comes out of this it doesn't feel like it's just pure body mechanics in the lips it just kind of gets copy pasted on where nothing else is being influenced love that too again just the framing as he comes in taking up a lot of room not giving him that much space making this a bit more threatening nice overall look and lining and composition and not just on characters but you get your sliding of the car you got the wheels turning the suspension moving everything here as detail that's it the look here as he moves over watching the guy on the left moves over like hey wait a minute what is going on changes you can see his expression changes to wait a minute this is cool too i really really like the shot too the composition in the camera move where it goes from car headed towards us with a slight lead on the camera we go underneath the car and then into this turn and away it's really nice let's watch us again here let's go back car goes back camera underneath the car nice slide and also enough weight on this it doesn't ever feel light or just not believable even on those little moves in that turn you can see the little up and down in the car and i had the car kind of leans and goes up here sound design is nice too and then with the camera move revealing bam this guy's still there so lots of complexity in the shots really well done really love this also lighting wise it helps with the fog that you got the lights are illuminating this area a bit more nice reflections just overall i'm just blown away by the quality of all this love that too where you have that camera reveal where we see focus on this character and as it moves over the chair reveals this guy still in danger the red light on him more shots with good head accents and moving all that even this on a move like this where you have what's your shoulder up leads and then you got that lean with the head for a nice arc you can really see that every shot has a lot of love in there same with this character how it transitions you got that flare on the nose coming in here almost with the chin first and as it goes up you can see that a little whining of the eye it kind of goes right with the knife and you can see like no blink no darts intense there again you got to listen to the sounds i love what that when he does this in the same way very exaggerated sound design i love this and that too he has a couple darts down here and you can hear in the audio where it goes and again you got to watch this with the sound but it tells you something's going on and you can imagine well it's going to be the box assassin coming out of a specific area wait for it as it turns around love this too great look and then get your freeze frame and voice over and scrub forward to reveal out of the tight space again and that's great too this little detail in the lids darts eye darts processing what's going on and then oh no into that cool as well as we can transition from a sound design of the shot into darkness and then come out of that with just the blinding of the headlights very cool also nice again detail just in the car watch this how the car and it is animated as you can really feel that the sound design is really neat i say opens up here your next physical shot as it comes out that's great too as the camera kind of reframes here and slowly comes out it's kind of like you know that something is coming out of that car and we transition to this showing yeah that was him coming out of the car nicely shot from below to give him a bit more of an imposing look again with the light get a nice silhouette there as well and then back into just the framing of you know to make someone feel small more in danger you got that bigger object coming in and taking up more space in the frame and then moves into a more friendly banter between the two realizes actually he's not in danger that's a cool moment to hear as he looks just that moment here when he stops looking at the guy a nice hand pose here your offside on the fingers and just that moment realize that he's gone see the lead up here with the eyes you got soft he's in on the eyebrows and with the eyelids you can see that look over and then cut to not there but also the camera moving back kind of like having us feel like this is the end of the shot as we're pulling away from that moment here but you got just enough of the hand here to see clean silhouette nice pose just everything nice lighting on that too and then we reach the ends with the boxes as entitled also cool transition into the credits i'm going to let this play out here with the elements on the left so not too long just long enough a nice style till the very ends and again using the headlights here for a cut to the end again really really impressive amount of work just in terms of storytelling the editing the look and the lighting the montage but also right away the animation of it all the details and again it's not super simple you have complex camera work you have vehicle animation you have complex body mechanics a lot of cool framing and composition ideas and different areas where this takes place so we have the loading dock here but then goes into the car and then back out here so again it's really really impressive work make sure to watch the whole thing with sound and music and go through the shots and analyze these frame by frame as you can see where it's really not minimal animation you have all really nice facial animation head accents lead ins with the head everything has just enough arcs and complexity just to make this really nicely polished you got your asymmetry in the face your offsets and nice hand poses in the fingers nothing is simple everything has a really nice look and style and feel to it the transitions are nice and how the character reacts to the dangers the environment is running as except before just everything feels very believable even moments like this when you realize that actually it's not that bad when you can see how he tenses up a little bit of shaking and then as you relax as you see the squashing here and as he relaxes the body goes up a bit the face relaxes just little things here and there just really really well done and I would say that's it congratulations Jeremy really really awesome work and if you're still watching until the very end as always thank you for your patience feel free to subscribe if you want to and check out the rest of the channel for animation lectures and rig reviews and product reviews and all kinds of things put free to browse around maybe there's something that you like and that's it for me thank you for watching