Glen Keane Animates a Scene - Part 1

we have an old uh, let's take the idea of ​​a chair, an old man, I don't know, he's making something up as I'm talking about this, actually, I think it's too big, I'm going to make them a little smaller. and just to take a simple action like someone sitting in a place and he gets up, then he's fine, he's got his hands, he's just resting in a chair. I mean, what is a chair? It's an anti-gravity device, you know, because there's basically a lot of force at work. um against us all the time to hold us down and he's pushing him down in this chair.

Now you have a very interesting event: someone sitting down is going to defy gravity by themselves, so you really have to keep in mind that gravity is such a force. this guy has to overcome and the fact that he's an older guy makes it a lot more interesting, so what's the first thing that happens? Well, let's say we're going to change and I'm sure this design is going to change like me, but he's going to throw his arms back as he starts to get ready and the first thing I think is let's not make it symmetrical, something comes first, I mean, you're moving both arms back, but let's say the elbow on that side goes up a little bit a little bit faster and immediately there's interest that the shoulder is lower the other shoulder is higher now you're playing a tilt tournament always you're looking for some kind of tilt um okay so now here comes our guy, isn't it funny because he's leaning forward and we want him to use the arms of the chair, one of the tools of the antigravity machine.

Here, he pulled his other arm back and, as he does this, lifts his feet under CU. He needs you to push that. the shoulder comes out a little further now he leans forward more now when I'm cheering I'm thinking I know where I'm going to go. I'm going to have this guy standing here, but the fun thing is to hold on to that full action as long as you can, it's like you know you have these cards in your hand and you just don't want to play them until they're really needed, so here comes this old page .

You know, while I'm doing this in my mind, I think about what's real, what's really happening and what's entertaining about this, um, and for me it might be entertaining to see the guy have to hold on, how long does he stay down? before starting? getting some kind of traction moving up, you know, as I'm animating this, I can feel it right here when I get home after animating the Beast, my jaw would hurt because I want the guy's expression to be kind of hopeful, okay? Do you start raising him? You know, look p, this just a little bit more, you're starting to like it.

I'm drawing these little lines here. I don't know what I am. I just know that's what it is. where I feel it and that's why I'm trying to throw this tension in there because it feels right here comes the guy someone gives him a hand like pushing his head further forward could really help him okay now he's exerting all the energy he has . I got on that shoulder, actually both shoulders, but this one seems to be winning. I know it's painful to see, no.