 Oh hi, it's Friday and that means it's an FNA. Yeah, and today's part two of how an environment can make your animation better So today I want to show you a couple examples of a few different movies where certain different types of Influences on the character can kind of make the character fit within the environment better and because of that I think that your animation can benefit from it your character can react to certain elements driven by the environment driven by Something that goes by a character or certain temperature changes and there are many more examples I want to show you those via a few different movies So let's start right away with Star Trek what I like in this example is that the actors were instructed to kind of look up and React or can pretends to react to a shuttle flying by and what's cool to me is that Certain moments when the character looks up the shuttle actually flies by and because the engine or whatever You know the turbulence that a shuttle might create you can see how the hair reacts So to me it's not just a character in a scene or could be a blue screen a green screen and all that CG stuff happens in The back and the characters are not really affected by it They don't react to it don't look at anything and I think the moment where if something happens next to your character It's say your character just stands around it's something big a plane or a car or whatever it is And the character talks to someone and then acknowledges just to do a look or kind of a wins or whatever It is that affects the character. I think that helps the character kind of blend together with the environment It's not just two separate pieces. They kind of feed off of each other another example I want to show here is from skull Island in this case I think something that's actually not quite working is her reaction So as she turns around everybody's firing behind her and that stuff is loud You get a lot of gunfire behind her and what doesn't she do she doesn't wins. She doesn't blink There's no reaction. So to me it just feels kind of fake It feels like something that was added by the muzzle flash and the noise and all that stuff You don't have all those guns actually shooting behind an actor, which is a bomber I mean the bomber is like would be dangerous But I think if you have this in a scene where a character looks and in her case It would be something where it would be surprising She's already odd by whatever she sees. They then suddenly have really loud gunfire At least the blink if not a bit of a wins So if your character sees something and then something else happens behind them next to them something unexpected Try to have that character react to that and be it through a look or kind of a wins Or whatever it is that could be because of heat or because of noise or it could be because of something like wind So let's take an example from a Batman versus Superman So you have Bruce Wayne going up there and you see all those bats flying around flying around What is missing from the kid if you look at the hair the hair is not moving You have all those things flying around flapping his little wings, but there's so many bats It would have some sort of effect on the kids face. The kid could be I mean not I mean, it's already odd by floating up there kind of a dream sequence But it could be something where it doesn't have to be like a wincing thing But at least the hair should be reacting I know I'm being super picky and I would hope that you would not not get hired because your character's hair is not moving because of a car driving by or a big dragon landing and flap it swings But I think it could be cool where if your character says something Here's my dragon and the dragon lands and flaps its wings and kind of shuffles the hair around that the character could then readjust it or kind of flap around or I mean cool Whatever it is that could be a scarf that then goes into the character's face and could take it down You could have that in a comedic fashion But I think it would be cool that the character would react to that So it doesn't feel like two separate pieces in your scene. A good example to me would be Lord of the Rings I love this shot when the arrows fly by and agent Smith Reacts with his wins the hair moves It's just so cool and I remember seeing this in theaters where it was so cool that he was there It was part of that environment stuff was flying by and he was just part of that action And it didn't feel like just a character on some stage with the green screen and then stuff added in the back BSEG and all that I thought it was really cool I think it really really added to that intensity of that moment another good example would be Tomb Raider I thought that was kind of neat that when the torch the light comes on next to her that she would react She's already absorbed by whatever she sees in front of her so having something go off next to her She will kind of react and then continue with her business again anything that starts and being you know a fire that starts or a light or a Sound like anything that you care to could react to I think would be neat and then you can Escalate that could just be a character reacting to it But could be in a comedic fashion where the reaction would be bigger They could could say something could pantomime of something it doesn't have to be something small It's up to you to make it bigger Maybe that will be a focal point of your shot speaking of fire There's a great scene in our man, too when the fire goes off You see this big flame and you have the bad guy reacting to the heat I mean that would assume it's a stunt guy But he takes a step back because if you've ever grilled anything I know if you have or you have seen play That's a kid from a fire don't fire. That's hot. So imagine that massive fire there This is gonna burn your face off So you're gonna take a step back because that heat is pretty brutal So if it was just a green screen or a CG effect the character just kind of stands there That's kind of lame and speaking of that movie There's actually a cool scene where an explosion goes off and the hair goes up because of the shockwave Super nerdy. It's super tiny. I love that stuff and speaking of wind There's a recent trailer for the new Godzilla movie where the actress turns around and then the flag goes down The flag goes back up and it would have been cool to have some sort of effect on her hair So that it doesn't feel like this is a CG flag that just happens to go up when it needs to But then she is not really reacting to it or at least the hair is not again Does it break the shot? No, but it's just kind of a nerdy detail thing that I love in movies And if you have control over the shot be it at home or you have creative control in your scene at work I mean this could be really cool to add to the scene and kind of again makes those two together So it feels like she is part of the environment Environment affects her and so on and so on so lots of little examples some good stuff some bad stuff and bad stuff It's all subjective and those are definitely things that I nerd out But I think it's really cool when it works and sometimes just stands out to me when it doesn't work And that's very subjective for other people and might work in a solely fine, but you know when I do a shot I think what could I do? What could I do with my character in that scene? It's pretend it's a CG character and it's at work You have a live action plate Is there anything in the plate that I can use so that the character that CG reacts to that? So it feels once you have all the final rendering and compositing it already looks real so that they kind of work together So if something happens in terms of heat or wind or an explosion or a shake or whatever It is that have your character react to it and I'm repeating myself So it doesn't feel so separate, but I think if you just go that one extra step It just kind of helps even if it's on a subconscious level and the audience doesn't go away. That's missing I think they will somehow feel it and it's gonna make the movie better and by better I mean like 0.001% But then again, I just saw Mission Impossible fallout and just knowing that Tom Cruise is there doing all the stunts He just adds an extra level of holy moldy. This is awesome He's right there and that's just something I like if you don't like that you can comment You can see I don't like this and if you haven't subscribed yet Why not subscribe and hit that bell button so that you get all notifications to all my uploads and That's always if you've watched the whole thing till the very end. I say thank you I think I'm gonna watch Mission Impossible fallout again next week. That movie has me pumped I'm still pumped from seeing it yesterday. It was so good. Watch it if you can and if you've seen it Let me know what you like by going back on the topic If you have any other scenes where something happens to a character be it a car that crashes The fire that goes off an explosion sound or something else that kind of triggers a reaction in the character It makes the shot that much more believable. Let me know. I would love to get more examples and that's it for now Thanks for watching