Moana 1 (Disney) - Animation Analysis and Tips

welcome back to another animation analysis and it's actually not going to be want to but since that was announced I actually want to show a shop from 101 and it's this one let's go back here I'm going to play it in full and it's something that I show to my students you the academy or Mentor even like workshops it's just an example that bring up for body mechanics pantomime weight contrast and a bunch of stuff there is so much going on it's like the what is it the unmovable object and the Unstoppable Force almost any a way something something but couple things a contrast even though not that much higher but you know there's a a massive contrast in terms of size so that's already interesting when you have two characters I often suggest make sure that your characters are not similar obviously unless that's the point of the shot but in this case really big and heavy not so big not so heavy and the objective of I want to pull this person you know they needs it needs to go somewhere but it's that person is so heavy so this is also a weight assignment so a weight assignment doesn't have to be you know a box and a character is lifting up a box like the classic assignment it can be a pull like that it can be a weight assignment where you have this right the pull of something pretty light the lifting of something pretty light at least to this character you also have really really nice clean poses of how this flows into that her the eyeline then really nice reversals you got this line here and then into that it's such a great pose but and also you have an environments right so it's not just well I have to pull and that's it it's pulling on a sandy beach so she's going to slip so that's already adding something else on top of the kind of the general assignment that that people use or soon where it's just kind of like you know like your geometry polygon and someone is in an empty room something I'm always a fan of putting your character to something something and that surface is going to change what you're animating right this could be slippery sticky swampy really hot whatever it is right but that's going to add an extra layer I also like that another objective is besides pulling and you know not getting anywhere with this trying also to grab something so you have there's an objective there's also the obstacle there's so much going on in this and on top of that you got the weight contrast so not just size but also weight and then also body language and pantomime and lip sync right she's even she's talking but because this is so small and screen and it's not so if you zoom in here it's not like this is the shot right I don't even know how much you're going to frame here correctly oh it's not too bad so imagine if this is your shot yes you can definitely do more the drawing tool does not like zoomed in stuff anyway then you can really emphasize facial acting and so on but since we are this far out it's all going to be about body language the posing the line of action and broader facial changes and this works really well with characters where you have like really big white eyes you can see this like this queen thing is really obvious the the tired look is really obvious for anyone that is asking what can I do for a shot and if I bring this up here you can see that this is it's actually I stopped the cut is here right so we are around the N9 a bit more than 9 seconds right am I starting at zero here so a often times I suggest stick to like two to three seconds when you're beginner to just do a weight shift someone taking a step maybe sitting down like something really short just to get the body mechanics working 3 to 5 Seconds when you get something a bit more substantial but again you don't want to do too much because there's just so much going on in terms of mechanics you're just going to overwhelm yourself then you're getting into the 5 to7 and 7 to 10 and so on but often times students just go ahead anyway and they do a 10-second shot now this is everything you can do in a 10-second shot so if you have a lip sync or pantomime you want to combine things if you're at home you're doing your own shot consider something like this a you have audio so you can do lip sync with one character lip sync with two characters with this someone is talking you have a character listening and reacting so that's already in terms of the lip sync the usual stuff that you want to do that's pretty awesome on top of that you have at you know with this kind of framing really really nice opportunities for really broad posing because you're going to be broader in your posing face and body because it's a wide shot and you can see this again in this really nice clean silhouette in here into that that there's so many clean poses in all of this it's so good love this love that I love that little offset in the feet here and you also have kind of the buildup of I want to try try try pull pull pull pull pull and then you got the contrast St like it builds and builds and builds to this moment of silence here and then the extra button of humor of lifting her up and I love how she's reacting how she just kind of stops it's such a such a great pose with that just kind of dragging in her face it's so good so if you are already doing 10 seconds then you can have like a I said lip sync you can have body mechanics of a pull push grabbing lifting and there you go so there's a lot included of course this is also going to be a lot of work but I think something like that for 10 seconds is a lot more interesting than someone who is you know waste up usually and having gestures with one arm or maybe even two arms and that's for 10 seconds where there's not much going on like the character is not moving left and right or turning around or using the space so unless the performance is really really good which there are obviously a lot of examples where it it can be really good for instance this shot right this is just upper body and it is what you can this is a longer thing and I can post things at the end here you got the website definitely check it out because there's a whole breakdown of performance and everything but this goes from what 9 to so it's 10 seconds it's still a really really good shot also this one even though it's just 5 seconds is an animation test you can do a lot with really nice changes in the body and expressions like obviously you can do a lot really really well in 5 to 10 seconds with not having full body two characters and so on but for students who are learning I always highly recommend to do things to push yourself where you are thinking outside the box and you you might not have a good grade because you you do a lot of mistakes where contact points are tricky right weight constraints same thing here right just the pulling of this you got interaction with this which is really complex and interesting again constraints and weight not that you would do the hair and stuff but you still have to work with props and all that stuff it's not easy but I would suggest do something like that where you combine all of this where it can be tricky obviously you would have to ask your Mentor your your teacher is this okay am I not doing too much if you are really not qualified in terms of doing this in terms of experience like you just you just barely move the bipad and now you're doing two characters and this this is too much too soon but if you are are you know in a in a good spot to do this I recommend to do this because it's going to be so difficult but because of that you're going to learn so much and you you learn so much through failing and making mistakes instead of keeping things simple it's like totally unrelated like a shot like this right if you're in creature land you do something like this this is so much work and it's really long it's really complex you got camera work and everything but I'm sure that the person who animated this learned a lot there was a lot in terms of feedback and figuring things out for creature you know observing things bipad uh creature twole things interaction as you can see there's camera work and so on and this shot we're at the 29 let me see here this is 31 seconds long this is massive now does that mean you should always do something really complex no this is an older clip actually I don't know who did this I apologize for for not crediting this person but see that there's Bunches of that not animated just yet you mean like the dog has no movement in here it's still simple but especially as you keep watching there's a lot of contrasting I'm going to wait for it there you go creature work pulling weight the surprise entertainment Factor there's a lot in it so it doesn't have to be crazy crazy camera work and something really complex but I would still say I'm going to do dog and see how it goes and then just because you have to study four-legged creatures look at the reference but still push in terms of mechanics and posing line of action and weight there's still so much that you can learn from doing something that complex just like this shop love love love the shop there's weight and balance of like the weight transfer turning around 180 with some pantomim and proper interaction this is so great there's so much that's awesome in this shot again same with this one same with this one and going back to this one so much awesome stuff so if you are in an environment where you can push yourself and it's okay you know I mean you get Fe you can't do something that's crazy and it's at work and you're going to fail and the shot is not delivered on time you know they can't show it to their client there's there's a lot where you have to be really careful obviously your leads and soups are going to help you in terms of casing the shots and so on but if you are a student you're going I want to do a let's bring this back up here 10 second shot as you can see 9sec shot I want to do something complex I want to push myself and I want to include as much as possible for whatever reason you're adding all this to your list like I said facial pantomim lip sync contrasting scale and weight of characters for weight you have a weight assignment in terms of a pull right different kinds of pulls in a way you have this then you have that different kind of pull where it's heavy and now it's light and then you have another weight assignment with lifting and so on all of this with like just a really fun usage of space and posing anyway I think I've said enough I love this shot it's like one of my favorite things to show and uh hopefully this was helpful and hopefully this sparked some ideas obviously do not copy this this is all here just for an idea creation um usage utility whatever you want to name this anyway that is that and I'm going leave it with this moment here which I love I'm looking forward to Moana too and um probably in the future I'll do some analysis of that movie and until then hopefully you'll 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