 Welcome back it is Thursday and that means acting analysis for animators and today we're going to take a look at the last episode it's episode five of Chernobyl. Today is all about details those are the tiny little things that I loved where you might have an eye roll or go really but these are the things that I thought that was cool and this was cool so lots of tiny little things that may or may not be important but I want to go through them now so let's not waste time let's quick fire go through all those little tiny little scenes first up is this one with the dad and the little kid on top and what I liked about this is that the kid holds on to the ears it's a tiny thing but then it's super cute I can see my little one doing this and I thought this was a cute little detail instead of just having hands down or maybe holding on to something else it's very specific I'm holding on to those ears and I thought that was super cute next up is this one where he asked him wait was there a problem he interrupts him and says wait are you going to ask me if there was a problem can't you read my face and after he says look at his reaction it's this cascading it's tiny it's subtle but it's great I mean not that this is subtle but I love that first he deflates like I did something wrong again then he has that little so show the first exhale tiny things in the mouth the head turns a little bit then a little bit more look at that lip compression and then the head goes down so good so watch that again it's just such a good reaction and as always it goes into something where this is your lip sync the lip sync is done you can still continue and then show a person reacting to this of course he's always kind of stoic he doesn't react at all but more about him later next up is this where she tells him or she asks him that he should tell the truth why do I show this I liked this part bring her hand up here she can't get too close she can't really touch him but it's more of a personal request almost like you should go and say the truth and sacrifice even more but the thing is always animation it's always to me at least there's a lot of hand gesturing arm gesturing and always seems a bit too much and this is just there to make it a bit more personal if she would say the same thing leaning back and maybe you know hiding her arms it wouldn't be as personal it wouldn't be as almost intimate but it's just something where I'm pleading and I want to be just a bit more personal and a bit more engaged with the person and I'm going to bring up my hand and leave it there it's a tiny thing but I just love that little moment there and within the same sequence she brings up two piles this is the person that survived and this is the pile of people that died now she tells them what happened what they did and what they sacrificed and as he listens this is what I want to show you is look at his face the clenching is everything he listens to this and is ready to just burst out well you know I got there and I got contaminated I'm going to die too and right there he says it right after she's done talking so you can see in his face he's listening he's tensing up he's waiting there's more clenching and he waits you can see this it's very very subtle but he has that little lip raise that little compression there that tension he's just ready ready to say it and oh you can see this here with the lighting nicely caught here the clenching and bam and then he says it so when you do have lip sync and a character is listening to someone else think about that acting is reacting so as this person who's off screen or maybe over the shoulder whatever is talking make sure that your character we see the face is really listening and reacting and you can have a really long anticipation to that outburst and outburst but you know his stronger reaction right there this is one of those things that probably with his shake your head but I like this I liked how he drops the paper he prepares it right puts it all together and he could just drop it if you would animate this you would think about the constraints I gotta bring my arm down open the fingers and put that piece of paper there and then let go but what I like is that how he does it he hold it and he opens both hands and just lets it drop and then puts the fingers on there the hands on there I know it's tiny you're probably going really JD really but I like this I like that just tiny detail right there so if you do something where you lick over prop as always think about how you let go of the prop how original and how creative could it be you might argue well this is twins you got two things going at the same time I know I know but it's an interesting tiny detail that I liked like I said quick fire or stuff that maybe only I like last time we talked about the soldiers walking and holding their guns in a different position or their rifles and I want to look at that sad face he's always kind of angry he's even challenging the court at one point and he is always kind of looking down the very very sad expression so if you have multiple characters like I said last time think about contrast even if it's subtle I mean again you might already this is very subtle here this is a bit more clear with the head looking down but throughout this sequence they always look and sit in a different way it is very contrasting so tiny thing but think about that if you have multiple characters what is the detail this is not really animation related but now that it's his turn and as we saw before in the previous videos but I talked about where she asked him to tell the truth you know he's nervous and it's what I liked here is that little subtle thing of a it's also slightly in slow motion but look at for the head and look at the background the camera everything's kind of tracking his face and you can see how the face kind of locks in the background kind of starts swaying right there you can see this usually when that happens the character who's locked in post gets all blurry because technically that camera will be moving they will be handhelds I mean that this character whatever is in the front of the lens here will be blurred out but because we're tracking it we're stabilizing focusing on this he gets a bit blurry and everything gets kind of weird as it moves and to me it seems like this is kind of the emphasize that moment in his head the awkwardness the nervousness just that weird moment and boom you can see here the camera relaxes again I'm going to play this again I hope you can see this with you know my compression and through YouTube but right through there you can see how there's very clear head tracking going on and I thought it's kind of interesting thing of emphasizing that moment of you know now he has to tell the truth again nothing really animation related but I wanted to point that out and this is something where I'm not sure what that means but I just wanted to point it out when I was watching this I just noticed that he holds his tie but is he is he maybe trying to keep the tie from dangling so he doesn't obstruct this is this something unconscious that he did is it something to be a bit more regal maybe at that point the actor ate something weird and he's just holding his stomach I have no idea but I thought it was an interesting thing of he could dangle his arm but he could also hold it here but why is it having why does he have the hand there is it again to keep maybe this from moving around too much so he's a bit more proper in front of the court I don't know because he's also moving over and potentially leaning so that means the tie would be here again maybe obstructing the view or not being clean enough I don't really have an answer but I thought that was an interesting thing so if I ever have a character that has a tie that is pointing at things I'm going to remember this and think about maybe I can do that as opposed to his proceedings they also go outside and the other character we just talked about talks to him and tells him that he was actually very very he thinks he's not that important to his whole thing and he's he's a person that won't be remembered you know in the history of all this and he just told him no no no you're extremely important to this and he has that look you realize this maybe it was not all for nothing because that's what he tells him things that it's all for nothing why am I showing you this because as they come back it's interesting to me how long he looks at him again this might be tricky for you to do hold on is this person looking into the camera maybe maybe not but anyway let's go back let's look at him looking at him for how long this is again something tricky in animation would you put that in there I just thought it's interesting it's a very distinct thing of I'm going to look at him as long as I can before I sit down maybe this is the beginning of your shot let's just pretend you have two characters walking and he looks and then sits down and maybe then your lip sync starts and he says something maybe he says something about him maybe this is a look of I'm going to challenge you maybe this is a look of I'm worried about you I hope you're okay or it's just a look of hmm that was weird what he did and then he starts his thing so again it's not very something specific that you could use in your shot but I thought it was interesting as potentially a beginning of a shot or maybe an end of a shot that you have but I'm always very interested in eyeline and I darts or no darts blinks no blinks how long do you look at a character and why why do you keep staring what does that mean and what does that mean for the audience there's something interesting to look at and something that I want to pay attention to in my future shots and of course if you watch my channel you know I'm a big fan of swallows and he swallows right there why am I showing you this he tells the court that there was a fatal flaw he tells them well when you push that button something happens and that's something that was hidden and he didn't know I look and see he's always kind of angry looking and challenging but not interested you can see this here kind of like ah this is gonna kill me and now you have that look of what and a blink for the first time he actually really blinks and takes that in and realizes wait what and then you have that moment of the swallow just an interesting moment especially for him it's kind of a contrasting thing where he never seems that nervous or realizing that something bad happened you mean like he's always very arrogant he's always more in this kind of angry look or mode here so for him to then do that blinking at swallow it's very interesting but again criminally underused shape in animation and actually staying with this character he tells the court what the end's power was right it shows how this goes up and how much the reactor was operating and you know just leading up to the explosion and he says that number from I can't remember like 3000 to 32000 or something like this and I love the cuts to his face looking again is that helpful to you probably not but sometimes it's interesting when you have a lot of stuff going on and then it cuts to nothing a character just staring or maybe it's a lot of action and then no action there's a scene entangled that does that it's very common where you have a lot of action then it cuts to something that's very still but it's that still moment where someone might just stare that is the big contrast that makes potentially a scene more dramatic or funnier looks over totally hunched over completely in shock but anyway this might just be me and ending this with this scene where he talks about that we lie and lie and lie and those lies they're always there even though we think that we can ignore them and if you play this I'm gonna play just the sound with it I might get a copyright strike here but I'm gonna play this the truth of fans we we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there but it is still there and I love this it's after all of this that he said again this is probably not what I'm reading into but I love that after everything he says about lies and how it's gonna all gonna come back to us and he has that pause at that moment this comes in the stacks of red these are all the lies and it's gonna lead to this and it's gonna lead to this catastrophe because of all the lies and then he continues every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth sooner or later that debt is paid such a good line I just love that moment again I'm probably just reading into this but I thought it was a cool moment of after saying all of this the visuals of this comes back into frame right right as he doesn't talk it's almost like you won't have you focus on this person because they're talking they're not talking we go over there so you can focus on this and then he goes and talks again and we can go back to this I'm probably just reading into this but I thought this was pretty cool at least in my mind boom quick fire rapid fire moment we're ending this Chernobyl series with episode five and all those tiny little bits that are like you probably going really but maybe not maybe you agreed maybe you have other tiny little moments that you liked as always the comments are open you can let me know what you like what you dislike I'm very curious who else watched this and thought it was cool and what the little things that you picked up on that were cool to you so no more Chernobyl if we continue with movies and other tv shows I'm talking about us I'm talking about the Orville Berry there's more er I just watched killing Eve there's a lot of stuff to come so if you want to get notified about all this you know this whole thing at the end subscribe hit that bell button to get all the notifications and if you thought that any of this was interesting helpful and you want to put that into your own shots I do have workshops link in the description you can sign up and I can talk about that stuff with your shots and we can go 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