 Welcome back to another acne analysis and tips for animators and today I want to talk about only murders in the building season one Hopefully there's a season two couple episodes. It's gonna cover facial dissipation pose mirroring set interaction. It's a bunch of stuff It's gonna be really cool. I love that show. So let's go All right, I got nine clips here saved I want to talk about and before I do as always hi My name is JD and I do acne analysis clips like these I do animation analysis clips I do animation lectures. I do rig reviews product reviews. I do a bunch of stuff It's the page at the beginning about my channel. Check it out. If you like it subscribes You don't miss any of my uploads and if you don't subscribe, maybe you subscribe later I don't know. I'll convince you later about it, but that's it for the page Let's get to the sequences and first up it's going to be about those So these are the main two characters as a third character as well She's awesome as well and it's about they're older, right? They're on the older side and why I love this because of how they walk how they run It's not gonna be the athletic running down jumping over this You have an older person hanging on to this So this whole show is all about body mechanics for older people how they interact with the set There's just so much there about holding on they're not jumping over if you have this year They both have to hold on to it. It's really really great And I just give a couple shots for some spoilers here, but at the end too They see something they go, what's going on and this I love that at the end he does that So it's again a reminder of if you have multiple characters, how do they relate like what's their distance? Do they hold on to each other do they look at each other a lot is that this what is the interaction between the two and this show It's just all of this and I love it and given that they're on the older side Sometimes they're a big grumpy. So you have this character asking him. Hey, can you take a photo? He goes, yeah, of course And he thinks that's going to be a photo of him because he's a used to be a famous actor and then they go No, no, can you take a photo of us and look at his reaction there? Oh I love this if it is your shot like this reaction Okay, I guess I'll take a photo and then they tell him. Hey, can you do you know portrait mode and landscape? Oh, the reason why I'm having this here. Actually, he doesn't do it But I love this that He has his fingers over the lens and he does take the fingers off to take a photo But it would still be covered technically takes the photo and then that's it with his pretend smile And this is more about if you have a character with a prop and again I love props It's not just because you have to add it to your characters and add constraints It's gonna be a pain to animate everything to me This would be if this character asks hey, can you take a photo? He could be yeah, sure sure sure and then just kind of slowly put the finger over the lens They may or may not notice this but it would tell us okay This character is not exactly the nicest person and the prop is an extension of that and in that Having the finger over the lens if you play it backwards you could animate it like this Well, that's a bit obvious but something bit more subtle But it's it's a prop that tells us more about the character and this is why I love having Characters within set environments and using props So if you have a prop again use it to tell us more about the character not just because you want to have a prop She's the other third character. She's also great all over in that and this is about this moment You usually he's fairly he's fairly broad in his movements much more than him He's kind of the the straight man taller the little guys like yeah, let's go a bit more flamboyant But this is a great moment here where he is asking for money He's put his son here and it's you can hear off-screen He asked him how is it going and it's happening right here doing this It's kind of a blend over here with the audio and he has this to watch his face Good and that's just such a great hold of a facial dissipation Before actually saying good it's like when you have a character saying yes You don't have to do yes, and I mentioned that before so if you've seen this before it's gonna be an old hat, but you can do Yes, so you can say before and then say yes, you can also do No, where you not what kind of like Yes, like you can do a bunch of stuff So this is a reminder of if you do have lip sync that it doesn't always have to be in sync It doesn't have to be matching the audio all the time think about the pauses in between What can you do before and after this more stuff about the after but think about that and love his little Good like that long hell pose. It's great And then he has a bunch of stuff where he looks away And he has kind of like there's a lot of really nice subtle work in this sequence where you can see this little The nervousness how he can't really hold gaze He has to look away and he does the thing again where he has like And then he says in other words There's a lot of anticipation in terms of facial Expressions before he actually says something so again great contrast for him being usually more on the broader side That's my broader side his little arms. Yeah That's my broader side character and then in this sequence where it's a lot more subtle These are really good actor this one They got the couple here and she just came home that low discussion and she tells her Hey, what about a hello kiss and she does this walk Towards her and then she tells her. Hey, you've been smoking blah, blah, blah I love that walk. Now. Why am I showing it is a Walks from A to B are hard like walk cycles enough to be like a walk in general is difficult Now if you have that down and you can do a walk as always Think in terms of what kind of walk is it? Is it an excited walk? It's kind of a comedic walk like this and now this is really difficult I totally understand that you're already worried about I can do the mechanics about blah, blah, blah From A to B on top of that I got to do this But it's just a reminder of go beyond motion and movement and see if you can add Personality to every move is it is it a head turn? Is it an arm gesture? Is it a walk? It's just such a great moment. We just get kind of get to know her a bit more their interaction She's a great little moment that I love and speaking of interaction. You got this here where the mom It's her mom. She's got a chastising Them and there's so much awesomeness here just that the pose his look they have so many great expressions again He's a bit more like the head up turn like there's something about him So she comes in and says okay mom And it's also great too in terms of like how they react. It's kind of that little slight look but also her that Okay, and maybe I said too much. It's there's there's no audio. It's just pantomime with that It's a great break up in terms of this is how she was she realizes the daughter is here And you got that change in the face and I change the eyebrows You can see how she inhales and then that tension that she had with this being on here shoulders up Goes back down into this just a great little moment, too But then it's this here where they realize okay, maybe we should go This is gonna be awkward between the mom and the mother and I love this here It's kind of like hey, hey, let's go and he has a slight push. I love that. Oh, what are you doing here? It's just a great again It's the thing of having two characters in your scene and how they relate It last like I said before how do they look at each other? How do they interact is it like a slight you could do like a slight little tap But this could be also more forceful push It's just great when you have two characters think about how they will relate to each other And it just gives you as an animator so much to do and speak of interaction Here's a set interaction thing that is not really in here. I'll show you here They say goodbye he leaves and then when you play this there's no audio But she locks the door and you can hear this but you can't really see it But again, this is something you want to copy to me This was the idea of let's pretend this is a date and this is whatever you know, whoever is dating each other here and That person didn't really like the date that person thinks this went really well Gets out, but then you can clearly see again the stage will be different that this character locks the door So to me it's again like a prop set interaction that tells us more It's almost like a reveal of a subtext where in the face they go. Oh, this was great Yeah, nice to meet you maybe see you in a second day Maybe and then the character closes the door going. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but then it's if you don't see the face again This could be actually this this angle you don't see the face So how do you know how the character feels you will see it by the character locking the door Realize. Oh, yeah, that didn't go. Well that character doesn't want the other character to come back in or whatever it is So that to me is why again why I love props and sets So if you have a moment where you turn a character around where you don't see the face It will be acting through posture body language and then potential interaction and usage of props This one is interesting because it's kind of rarely done in animation because it's it's a tricky thing She has this pose and as she says something he agrees and it does the same thing And in real life the the pose mirroring is something that actually that totally exists And you once you pay attention you can't unsee it and it's the tricky thing was if you do this Then what if and if they're on the same, you know on the same screen here on the same Framing that would have mirror posing Maybe then you would immediately go for me as a teacher. Hey, watch out Did you did you think about pose mirroring or are you just you know not thinking about variety in contrast of posing? So it might not be the easiest thing to put to to pull off So if you're animating ask your leader supervisor, that's something you could do But I'll you can see this here. He's doing it earlier before the cuts But this is something you can think about pose mirroring when two people Agree in the scoopy in a group. You can also see when multiple people talk one person's talking and then the other person agrees They will start mirroring poses again It's something like the FedEx logoed out the arrow in it once you see it You can't unsee it but just as a reminder something to explore in terms of posing and again said interaction Why because this character can't hear this whole episode was all about or without dialogue It's really great and I love this Knocking leaving this because for him it's all about vibrations and you know lip reading and all that stuff But for him it's he would sense through the vibrations that someone is walking up close through the weight To the door and I love that so again I saw like a broken record, but if you do have a set, this is how I would use it I mean, I'm not saying that I'm that smart, but I love this. I love that we understand. Oh, okay He's listening. He tries it again listens again. Nothing's happening. Let's go that to me It's just the right usage of a set because again in animation You don't have to have a set. You don't have to have a prop There are so many shots out there animation tests or in movies where or tears or whatever where the character is just Empty it's not an empty scene, but you know with the movies you have a set But there's no crazy direction. It's just a performance and it's really good. You don't need obviously sets and props My point as always as I'm stressing is that if you as a student are watching this and you're looking for ideas to me Using sets and props will give you potentially more original ideas than your first couple is that you had So if you have a character that's just doing something you acting things out if you filming reference Imagine okay, let's do the same thing same actions Same want or objective of your character, but now place the character on a chair against the wall Getting out of a car just to me all those extra elements are going to change your acting choices potentially for sure the posture the Posing you might have asymmetry built in because of what you're holding on to and all that is going to make your shot Different and more original and that's my whole point about all of this is that Hopefully the series gives you ideas to make your shot more original more unique So you stand out and get a job. Let's be like the end goal of it, and I'm ending it with this one just because Because of that look them like he has such a great thing He pitches something and he says this he does that it has a weird sound right there It's so great, and it's this it's the reaction of wait what and I love that little shake Like he kind of wakes himself up and what what did I just listen to and he kind of looks around And he's totally confused and has that is great So I want to end it on this just because all of them her reaction to she's just lightly in pain you're going oh Why it's just so great and this is this is why I'm ending on this Basically, this show has so many different characters in terms of age how they relate how they react to the same situation There's so much awesome reference I can't recommend it enough that you watch the show if you can and if you have it Let me know the comments when you think about it. The show is not done yet I think there are two more episodes I think so this is not covering the whole season and hopefully no spoilers But that is that for this show and speaking of show if you want me to show you how to do those things and help you It's my pitch at the end. I have workshops you can sign up at any time I can help you make your awesome shots even more awesome Link in the description with all the information feel free to sign up whenever you want and start whenever you want It's totally flexible and as always speaking of time. This is it. It's not super long long as show but thank you for watching till the very end and That's kind of that for me I'll see you in my next wait wait wait the pitch at the end like and subscribe as always subscribe if you like If you don't miss any of my uploads and I didn't want to miss us want to bring that out there subscribe It helps my channel grow and if you don't then that's okay, too But that's it now. 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