Thanks for checking out this movie review video. This is for the 1983 Italian giallo film a blade in the dark And I enjoyed this film Just so you know I'm big into giallo if you haven't been watching more of my reviews And if you are also into giallo actually have a playlist on my channel for just giallo film reviews So I've been putting a lot in there. I don't even know what number I'm at at the moment But it's been thrown them in there and I've been having fun with it Available on shutter most of them when I'm doing the reviews, but not all of them So blade in the dark directed by Lamberto Bava Yes He is the son of Mario Bava who I also have reviews for on my channel and an entire playlist of Mario Bava film reviews I like my old Italian horror Bava's done other films such as demons demons to demons 3 the ogre macabre you'll die at midnight Delirium and the mask of Satan although that's not all of them The script for this film was written by Dardano Siketi as one of the people he's done other scripts big scripts such as the cat and nine tails Shock Cannibals in the streets city of the living dead the beyond the house by the cemetery the New York Ripper The scorpion with two tails Demons demons to demons 3 the ogre killer crocodile killer crocodile 2 and a Bay of Blood just to name some he has a lot of credits And he wrote this script with his wife Elisa Briganti who's also written scripts for zombie Yes, the Lucho full G zombie Manhattan, baby 1990 the Bronx Warriors and the exterminators of the year 3000 which sounds interesting Just so people know right up front the titular killer in this film Tony who goes by Linda at some point and what kind of I'll dive into that whole situation probably at the end of the review is played by Michelle Suave who is well known for Directing the film stage fright. He also has had some small roles in other films throughout his career such as He had a very small very small cameo in the New York Ripper by full G also full cheese city of living dead and Bava's Demons, but he has a much larger role in this obviously as the killer This film was also titled House of Dark Stairs So I don't know if I think I might like that one a little bit more because it it Has more meaning to the actual storyline with the film No sets were actually built for this film as the whole script was written to take place in the Italian villa Where it was filmed as you will you know recognize it's all in one place where this is filmed I like films like that part of the reason being I think it kind of Creates more of an air of the characters being kind of locked in stuck in this area With the killer or whatever evil it ends up being So I like that aspect of it. It kind of ratchets the tension up that way But also I think especially with a film like this where there's kind of an adventurous nature where characters are going around the place You get more of a sense of the actual layout you feel familiar with How everything is laid out with the house at least in this film And I just like having that knowledge when I'm watching a film and actually this house belonged to producer Luciano Martino Just so you know and he's been involved with a bunch of other giallo and just in general Italian horror films in the past As a producer, but he's also done some writing. I don't think he's done any directing, but definitely writing Argentos to knee bray one of my favorite giallo films was actually an influence for Bava for this film because he acted as an assistant for Argento during the filming of to knee bray and I guess you you can kind of see some of the influence there one of the main Influences being the brutality at times with it and the real violence in some of the kills in particular I my favorite kill. I'll talk about in a little bit. This is probably a lot of people's favorite kill, honestly It was initially shot for TV in a four-hour block Or no, I'm sorry a two-hour block that was supposed to be four episodes That's what it's supposed to be But they said it was too violent and too gory So they ended up editing it down from the two-hour block to release it as an actual feature film Would have been interesting to see what was cut out of it and what constituted that full two hours The version that I watched on shutter was like an hour 48 So they only really cut out like 12 minutes, but 12 minutes can actually add a lot to a film So this film has a nice start with the bloody ball coming out of the basement after the kid goes down and Screams note that there was a heartbeat sound when the kid was going down the stairs now We realized that we don't initially when we're watching the film We don't realize that that is a film within a film Which is a very meta thing and there are a bunch of meta things in this film that cicchetti rip and Brigante wrote in which I think is kind of cool about it's a horror film about people make well, it's a horror film giallo film about people making a horror film basically and It's cool, and there's some other meta stuff that I'll talk about but Initially you think these are the events of how we're setting things up This is what we're doing and it's a good attention grabber to start that way with the little kids It looks creepy looks scary going down the stairs like I said note There was like a heartbeat sound of the kid You know being scared as he was going down and then the bloody there's a scream Then the bloody ball comes up and hits the wall and leaves that blood there very cool I like that then later we realize oh, they're just working on a movie But we do realize that there is a significance between what happens in real life in this win real life in this film And what was happening in the film itself that it was a story taken from the killer by Sandra I believe her name is and put to film. So yeah, and which is why Linda ends up going to destroy the film The close-up of the exact in life cutting the picture of a nude woman shows an underlying hatred for the Female form and female in general, which obviously at the end we end up Understanding I mean understanding within the context of the film that is I say that Tony Was that kid who was told who was you know poked fun at and told that he was a wuss that he was a female to go down the stairs Otherwise he was too scared and he was a female and that was some sort of childhood trauma I'll talk more about that later how that is currently a problematic thing But we also need to keep in mind when this was done, but once again, I will revisit that later. So yeah But the cutting with the exact in life of the picture of the female form sets it up to say there is some sort of hatred for women for one reason or another which we end up finding out as Bruno describes in the end of the film that it was Tony trying to Get rid of the female portion of himself And he was just externalizing that when he was in the mindset of Linda Jen going and killing other women, you know as like an external outlet for trying to kill the inner female himself I Like how Bruno isn't at all suspicious or concern that the character of Katia was lurking in the house that he's staying in and Why was she in a closet and why was her diary left behind? Because the diary was in the closet with her. So There's a lot of stuff that doesn't really make sense per se in this film Like I said the first thing being why is he not Just shocked by this random person having broken into the house that he's Living in now that he's renting Then she was in a closet like she was hanging out in a closet literally that would indicate that she's hiding from him Maybe up to something nefarious and then she also left her diary behind which is weird But he's just like immediately so friendly to her and it's such a weird thing.   I think it's really dumb There were a few of the shots that looked good But the fact that initially and they show it for so long the knife It's the killer's trying to get the knife through the wiring and it won't go and then all of a sudden after trying for so long It just goes Which doesn't make any sense. So either they were holding it back for like torturing purposes or It just makes no sense because the shape of it didn't change over time and the wiring didn't look different It was all the same size So I think that whole scene is drawn out and it's stupid. It's not a good scene in my opinion But the exacto knife that knife the retractable knife is a cool weapon. I like it I specifically like when they do the close-ups of it and you hear the noise of it clicking up It's just the indicator of here we go. Someone's gonna get killed I like the Bruno picks up a whispering conversation on his recording equipment And then he's able to hear it by enhancing it and writing it down that kind of starts the Investigation so to speak and in general, that's one of the things I love about this film is the investigative nature Of Bruno trying to figure all this out himself as he kind of sneaks around the house Well, not really sneaks walks around the house Investigates tries to figure out what's going on taking everything in and I feel like the way the writing in a script was It's really good pacing at what intervals we get little tidbits of the backstory But also like these revelations as Bruno's finding them of you know, here's some evidence something weird's going on here The pacing of that's very very good And I think for that reason the film feels like it really moves and doesn't really drag much at all So and it being a like an hour and 48 minutes. That's a pretty big triumph in my opinion I'd like the exploratory nature of how the film moves throughout the house and the grounds of the house as well Once again, like I was saying I like kind of getting a feel for the actual layout of it When the caretaker says the owner only rents to short-term tenants my suspicion immediately went to Tony being the killer and so I Very early on guessed who would end up being the killer I never deviated from that honestly because that bit of dialogue is very odd and it would only be there for a Specific reason because things that are scripted are there for a reason and so when the caretaker says he only rents Short-term I was like there is no reason to rent short-term like this other than you want to be able to kill those people And be like oh well everyone short-term, so there's a lot of turnover, so people just come and go so Just saying They basically tell you the caretaker is not the killer when Julia talks about horror movie cliches and says Quote and obviously it's the caretaker just another one of those things about being very meta this film They talk about kind of horror movie tropes a little bit Julia in particular in that moment She also she makes a a comment about the play that she was working on and the the Main theme of it ends up being kind of the main theme of how you get to the killer in this movie So yet another one of those meta moments So there are a lot of kind of clues littered out throughout the film But they're presented in ways that people wouldn't necessarily take them seriously as being a hint But on a second viewing you probably would catch them So many comments are made about a bad smell at the pool with this Which really made me believe very early on that the bodies are around the pool That ends up being the case with that. I don't know what that was. It was like some giant metal vat But that was near the pool.  So obviously this is not a a perfect film The shot of the killer's hand stroking the knives and the noises they make sounds like the killing is A little bit sexual now that ends up not being the case But at that time I was like man, it sounds like they're like getting off just like Running their finger over these knives And that's an important part too because that's the first time that you see A hand with nail polish on it and it's red nail polish Which they try to throw you a red herring with no pun intended on that With julia because later on julia in the bathroom when she's talking to bruno is putting on red nail polish So they're trying to kind of throw you for a loop there But when they're initially showing the hand with the red nail polish like touching those knives That's the first time you get any sort of misdirection that it is actually a female so But to me when I saw that I thought The only reason they would actually be showing this is because they want you to think that it's a female Because otherwise with pretty much every other giallo They're wearing gloves because they don't want you to know it is a is it a feminine hand or is it a masculine hand? So just saying this is how I view the films because I've watched a lot of giallo So this is how I view them when I watch them Angela's death is pretty messed up and violent now. This was my favorite death I thought it was really well done because it's so messed up. It's so violent.  So there's actually a quote Of childhood trauma turning a person into a monster. I believe that's something that sandra ends up talking about in context of the movie that she was making and that was mined pretty well, I think in older horror films Now it shows up in a you know now at times problematic way in this film, but I'll you know still I'll talk about that a little bit more The strong focus on the segment of film made Made me believe it was steeped in real events and the focus on the chance of female Made me believe it had a strong role Now the fact that they focus they really did focus a lot on the kids chanting over and over female female female So you put that together with them, you know intentionally showing the hand with the nail polish on it and then also The childhood trauma thing being talked about all all those clues just kind of coming together to build the case that it is in fact, tony and and the Renting thing and also the fact that there is a moment where tony just randomly shows up and he doesn't really have a reason to be there If you do a rewatch, you know Take take note of that Although I think that it's probably written off most commonly as well. He owns the place so he can kind of show up whenever so They work julia pretty hard as a focus for a killer They really create a lot of suspicion around here the jealousy that she has which is pretty intense because of other women being around Bruno Randomly just showing up at times which we then find out later She's lying about the fact that she was involved in this play That seemed suspect the red nail polish which I talked about and the fact that she says they met playing tennis And there's that connection with linda having all those tennis balls per sandra because sandra knew linda So they would they do work her pretty hard. They really want the audience to be like, oh my gosh, it's julia. It's gotta be julia No, you can't fool people with no giallo It's a solid reveal when sandra calls linda and they showed that she answers the phone at The property when they show in the background that you see the house I think that was kind of like the the pool house or I think maybe there was like a guest house there basically Um, that that is a cool reveal I you know, I expected that she would still be there, but um for some people aren't following it necessarily as closely That's cool reveal The care. Oh, yeah It this does bear repeating though the caretaker being beaten to death with the wrench was a terrible scene. It looked awful How did all the tennis balls fall from the ceiling? In the end when linda is going after julia All those tennis balls just fall on julia from the ceiling. How did that happen? Like how was that set up? It doesn't make any sense. It's such a random thing I I thought it was dumb Bruno was so close to being able to save julia and that He was very like literally he was seconds like maybe 10 seconds away or so from being able to to catch julia Now I will say that scene where she finds where she's being chased through the hall by linda Is well done not just for the standpoint of it's intense and how fast it moves And then she gets stabbed and it looks good because of that But also because they do a good job of showing enough of linda But not showing too much of linda that you know at that point. It's not a female necessarily so well done A very lame finish to the film though with with linda accidentally stabbing herself. I just It it looked dumb.  There should have been something way better. I mean Just have bruno killer Just have bruno kill tony slash linda. Just just do it that way. It would have been much better So I don't like the ending but there's a lot of stuff. I do like about it as you've heard me say Like his father, uh, limberto baba has a good use of shadows He does a lot of cool stuff with shadows in this not not necessarily for any real purpose But sometimes just for it looks cool visually so take note of that when you if you rewatch the film Also, he another thing he picked up from his father, which he did once in the film Which I thought looked really good, but but mario baba used to do it a lot was The rotation around in like a circular circular or semi circular motion around one character Now limberto baba does it in this film The part where one of the parts where bruno's sitting in like his setup of all his recording equipment And it goes from like the left I think like his left side and goes all the way around like behind him. It looks cool. There's a cool rotation You have to understand the time this film was made Okay, lots of films correlated anyone other than heterosexual as being abnormal and therefore being unhinged and capable of murder Now if this film was made nowadays, I would look at this and say Yeah, that's not good. You should definitely not make the film that way now that said when I watch films that are older I always watch them with the mindset of the time period they came out and how did people try You know try to think how did people think back then what was deemed as acceptable? What was deemed as not acceptable because then you can understand what the film's trying to go for And just also the context for which the audience was receiving it Another thing is I know a lot of people will see a film like this and say well, you know We shouldn't promote this film nowadays because it has these problematic themes in it Like saying that people who aren't heterosexual are mentally unhinged and yes, that is problematic But as long as people understand that that's how it was viewed and that's not how we do things now That's the important thing. I'm not a proponent of Erasing history in this way because it's good to be To be reminded of what it was To be able to look now and see how far we've come Especially with with an instance of this like I said This is kind of a thing that was used quite a bit in film And I'm glad that we've gotten away from that now and it not even that long ago It was still kind of used. I mean, I think it was in the 90s the film cherry falls with jay more in it And uh britney murphy that did something very similar. So Just keep that in mind. So I'm all for keeping these things to where it reminded Aspects of this remind me of black christmas I don't know if anyone saw this coming or if anyone saw it in the film like I did the single location Which I love that about black christmas. I loved about this one The whispering and the weird sounds that the killer makes there are if you really pay attention Linda makes a lot of weird noises in this that really reminded me of the weird noises that are being Made by the killer in black christmas, which I think is good. It ups the creep factor quite a bit And then the suffocation scene with angela There you go, which there's another very good suffocation scene in black christmas obviously. So yeah Um, yeah, and that's all I have to say. I really did enjoy a blade in the dark I think it was very fun. Obviously I point out their problems with it, but I thought it was really fun I mean out of five stars with half stars in play. I'm gonna give it four stars I was kind of between three and a half and four, but how much I enjoy it. It's just fun The other thing is the directing and the cinematography is really good It's very smooth and that pacing that pacing is a big thing, especially with older films like this A lot of them had not that great pacing pacing is great in this one. So four stars for me Let's get nerdy. Let's talk about this one If you want to talk about this, but other giallo as well, we can do that as well Let's get nerdy now do me a quick favor though. Hit that subscribe button if you haven't already That is your best way to repay me if you like any video I've ever done this one included because I don't make money doing this I'm just spending my time putting this out there so I can connect with cool nerdy horror people Like you probably are watching this. 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Hello everyone, this is financial author Amit Dan of AmitDan.com on this channel You'll find financial travel and more videos just like the one you're watching right now If you like what you see, please give me a thumbs up and consider subscribing Hello everyone, this is AmitDan of AmitDan.com on this channel You'll find financial travel and more videos however as My trip to the Asia is coming up I'll be doing more travel videos and some of these videos. You're just watching right now more for the next few days the trip is coming up in the end of November and I'll be going to Asia countries like in Asia countries like Bangladesh and India and you'll be able to watch my business class reviews lounge reviews and food reviews and street food reviews and reviews like Taj Mahal and other United UNESCO World Heritage site reviews So if you haven't subscribed yet, please subscribe so because there will be lots of travel videos coming up shortly and today I'm going to talk about something very important when you travel Who we keep lots of stuff with us we take so many things, but most of the times we do not take Something that is very important or which we should be taking at the first place and this is a first aid kit So in this package you'll find Things that you'll be needing if someone gets hurt or injured or something Goes wrong and if you're in a foreign country or if you're outside home, then definitely Keeping or having one of these may save your lives or someone else's lives So this is a very good idea to keep this with you I'm going to just show you inside for both of these a little bit So if we open this up this one is slightly a bigger version and it has stuff like this bandage alcohol pads And then there's the scissor and There's some Tongues and there's a bigger bandage. So lots of stuff like this Keep in mind that This type of first aid kit you won't be able to take it in your carry-on Luggage because of the sharp object like this. So this is ideal for your luggage and this is Something you can just you know keep with you when you are in other country, but not on plane because of the sharp object And I have another version here, which is a Very simple version. There is no sharp object inside it and this is good for carry-on or TSA approved So if you open it up, you'll see that it has some very basic stuff. For example band-aid Some cotton gauge and some tape and some alcohol Bigger version of band-aid right here. So it's all basic stuff for nothing Here which will not Be will not cause you any problem In your carry-on. So this is a carry-on friendly or TSA friendly packaging and this is very lightweight and you can just put it in your Parse or luggage or carry-on or anywhere with you and you can keep this with you on the plane and This type of first aid kit is very inexpensive They're very cheap and you can find it everywhere stores like Walmart or your growth even your grocery stores supermarkets and The in terms of prices they can run from five to ten dollars So you should be able to get one of these for around five dollars and one of these for ten dollars or fifteen dollars So they're very cheap, but if something goes wrong these Might help your life or someone else's life So this is a very good idea to keep one of these with you when you go in foreign country or when you leave home and you're traveling and this is most important than carrying any other thing and Most of the times we forget the most important things and we carry other things that are not important so the reason of my video to just to let you know that this is what you should get first before your next trip and That will be all for today and For the next one next week, there will be more videos like this as I'm packing my stuff and preparing for my journey I'll be leaving in approximately 10 days. So keep an eye and Thank you for watching and I'll see you shortly


Over the past year, I have talked pretty frequently about a review I was writing of John Green's novelization of his hit podcast, The Anthropocene Review. Initially intended as a fun little thing posted the week after release, my desire to mimic its structure and use that as a way to talk about the philosophy of this channel and the events that led to its creation resulted in a rapid spiral that even excising my sub-review of a $500 Saint Laurent t-shirt and releasing its standalone couldn't stop the final script from breaking 20,000 words. I had planned out how each section would be staged. I even shot that dope intro on the edge of a cliff, which was to end with a series of trigger warnings to get people in the mood. But as I discussed in my review of turning 30, a series of creative setups wasn't enough. The disappointment that I felt in myself when I read through that first draft was enormous and the many dozens of hours I'd spent working on it felt like they'd been wasted. But the sunk cost fallacy has its claws me real deep. My first piece of performance arc came because I refused to let something I'd made languish and so too with this. In December, I had a plan to rework it for the anniversary of the book's release in mid-May. It seemed realistic at the time. I mean, it was more than six months away.  Well, then I decided to make 30 videos in a month and a plan for the future that didn't really include that video. Now we're less than two months from the anniversary and I've done nothing. But it's not as dire as it sounds. As those who are fully plugged into the week air review cinematic universe know, the plan changed. The review of the Anthropocene Reviewed is no longer a video at all but a live reading and it is being performed exactly once in London, England on June 11th. Well, I hadn't said the date before, but I did just now.  Yeah, kinda. I mean, I'm gonna do some sight seeing or whatever while I'm there but the reason I'm going to London specifically is to do this. Yes. Isn't that funny? You see, if I do it in New York, it's lazy. But if I travel, no one can deny my commitment to the bit and bits are the only things I like committing to. While London specifically, well, a weirdly large contingent of the Week Airview's core fan base is in the UK, so of the places I could go that isn't here, London is probably my best bet if I want people to actually come. Also, number one super fan Willow has been maybe jokingly berating me to go on tour for years at this point and this is me calling her bluff because I'm serious. The Anthropocene Reviewed, Reviewed, live in London will take place at 14 o'clock at weirdo time and run somewhere between two and three hours with an intermission. The venue is TBD but we're figuring it out. Also, entry will be free. Really.  There won't be costumes or fancy effects. Maybe the spot will allow me to have a handful of projections but you shouldn't expect anything more than me standing and reading about myself for several hours. That doesn't sound worth money to me so I'm not gonna ask you to give me any to attend. But if it sounds interesting to you, you can get tickets at the event bright link in the description. They are quite limited of course but I don't actually think that many people are gonna want to come so I'm not really worried about it. That said, please don't sign up if you do not fully intend to be there. And to make something super clear, this will only happen once. I understand that most people who watch my videos couldn't make this trip if they wanted to but the more seriously I take it, the funnier it is. Depending on how I'm feeling on the day, I might record at least parts of it and then do a single stream of a cut down version sometime later but also maybe not. In any case, no one who isn't in that room will see the piece in its entirety which means that I can talk about some things I would have never put in the video so that's fun. But to that end, I need to start the rewrite which will obviously get in the way of that schedule I'd hoped to stick to. I do have some specific things I want to talk about and I'm sure more will pop up over the next couple months but this script will become my priority because I don't want to get on a plane just to make a fool of myself. I know I've got some things that I've promised various people and I will make good on all of them and it'll just take a bit longer than it hoped. Sorry. It'll be worth it though at least for the people I see in London.


Thank you for being here and thank you everyone for being here. This is a great great day for Pennsylvania But but more important. This is really a great day for Pennsylvanians Right. This is really a great day for all of us. I am going to sign a bill I'm going to say a few words then some people who have been very instrumental in making this happen we'll sign we'll say a few words. Hi Mike. Good to see ya and and then I'll sign the bill and Then I just want to Go out and say hi to all of you. I think that's what we all want to do This is a big big day I think I said this on Wednesday night, but there's three things that I think this says about our system first of all First of all, it says that we can work together Every once in a while in fact it happens a lot right here in this building We don't think about whether this thing is a Republican thing or a Democratic thing or a conservative thing Or a liberal thing or a Senate thing or a house thing This is something that's good for Pennsylvania and that's what we thought about here This is a show that not just one time but in things that really matter we can and do work together And I think that's a great thing Second thing this says is that and I said this again Wednesday when you have people who represent a cause as Elequently and in as heart fell the way as the advocates for this have done it shows that we can actually get something done That means something we're not Responding to a special interest here. We're not responding to somebody who makes campaign contributions We're responding to people here who are telling us that there is a real human need here in Pennsylvania And we did that we responded to that so I want to thank the advocate And the third thing is that once again We can do things that matter to a lot of people Really matters and we did that here. So I just want to congratulate all of us. Let me say one final note When I before I came to work on Thursday Guy I know friend of mine a construction worker came up to me and I said, okay, what did I do now? He said hey Tom. I Okay, first of all, where's the respect? He said Tom. I said he said I have a friend Who has ms? He's an advanced stage of ms. He's in a wheelchair And he told me he wanted me to tell you something and I said what he said. Thank you Cuz because of this because of this he said This liberates him it liberates his doctor because of this bill they can now He can be treated with with not hard drugs that he believes and his doctor believes might be hurting him But with something that actually might be more effective And all we're asking here is to have the ability to have that doctor make a decision in conjunction with his or her patient That will make that patient's life better. That's all this bill is about So I am going to pass that thank you on to everyone here senator fulmer Thank you I'm just passing this on I'm the messenger here. Thank you senator leach Representative vera. Thank you Representative Petrarcha Everybody here senator teplets everybody who's been part of this but most of all most of all All of you who have been advocates for this Thank you very much that comes from So before I sign this there are a few people who want to say some things and I think need Really deserve to have some time and I'm going to turn it over first to senator fulmer Mike fulmer This is about the people of Pennsylvania, this is your day and I am so so grateful to be part of this So much has been said a lot has been said and I've been thanking everybody But today if you would just bear with me for just a tad longer just a tad longer I will try to keep my comments. I'm trying to have a better carbon imprint With with less hot air and so forth but my point is is that there's so many people that that and there were so many things that made this work and Going forward going is in the very beginning two mothers came to me and They came to me with a message and they came to me with what they were going through with their children And those two mothers was Lolly who you're gonna be hearing from a little bit later, but I'd like to And Dana and Know I know you want to say a couple things here and I just want to give a little time to Dana because Okay, all right. All right ADHD. I'm sorry squirrel. I took on that You know last year at the farm show We were able to have a stand that we educated a bunch of people on on this issue. I mean thousands of people But you see folks that stand would never take in place would never happen Except for two small business people from my County, Lebanon County Dennis Ball back and Monica Klein and their alpaca farm. They're over there And I just want to say this Monica fought real hard For us to get this into the farm show and I'm gonna thank all the folks over at the farm show for allowing this to happen because there Was some resistance Because it's a very controversial issue But because of their hard work and their sacrifice they paid for the stand They gave it to us to advocate and we did a great job that week and we met thousands and thousands We handed out almost four thousand pieces of literature to two folks to help educate on this issue So I'm gonna just say thank you very much and by the way Monica I have your dad's watch here her father was lieutenant governor Ernie Klein And she gave me his pocket watch and that was like my good luck charm So I kept on rubbing it and I was rubbing it really hard the last couple of days I have to tell you in all honesty, so I'm gonna say that and then I'm gonna do something out of the ordinary. They always tell you that your staff is there to make you look good I'm blessed with One of the best staffs anybody could ever have And I'm gonna start out with my my my blood in district office staff who? Marie Tribioli Andy Denonzi on Barb Shutter who had to listen to me moan and groan and vet and and so forth as we Were trying to get this done and taking all the phone calls in the district. I Also want to thank in the Harrisburg staff. I gotta say Fallon binner. I don't know where you are. You're out there somewhere but Fallon Sometimes felt that she wasn't part of this because she did my scheduling and she took all the phone calls and had to put up with me and And and did a great job and finally you were a major part of this and thank you so much from bomb my heart Gwen Gwen dando What can I say? Even while you were getting your your daughter's Next meal you were reading drafts she breastfeed so and I didn't mean to embarrass but But my point is Hey, it was all real man, and it was all real Organic right it couldn't be better than that and then Michael tortino Michael you hear Michael Michael's the what was my earth expert? She probably forgot more about earth and a lot of us know and and that's for the regulation side and then finally To a chief of staff who? kept me focused I'll get his name who kept you kept me focused Who told me things that I needed to hear not what I wanted to hear and kept me strong It was actually the perfect chief of staff by the way, and that is Fred Senbach And I was one big fan of all that They did a great job and and in such And finally before I bring Dana up here I just want to say that I'm just honored to be able to be part of this and to all the friends that we made I mean I met all the moms I could go on forever with the names and I didn't mean to leave anybody out Because this was a total total team effort, and this is again I'm gonna close with this before Dana comes up This is your day and one more time we won All right, my next you're gonna talk with sorry I'm really sorry about this is my I do have ADHD So I'll be the first to met it. I'm gonna introduce my cold heart in crime Was real on to work with your brother Blessing Senator Daly Leach Thank you. Thank you. I would start off by noting that ADHD is not one of the 17 conditions that are covered So we can't help you out Mike But we have done it Marijuana is medicine and it's coming to Pennsylvania and when I say we that's exactly what I mean This would not become law today if it was not for Governor Wolf Obviously senator Fulmer and his staff Leader Reed and dozens of house members and staffers some of whom were here today My entire staff who I will name because they were such an integral part of this day today Zach Hoover Mary Pat to me John to Steve Hohenstein Samantha Altoff Judy Chombetta Zach Isaac Deb Barol Charles Brukowitz Caroline Edith Zoe Allen and Chad Hoffman and You know my staff when they said when when Mike said your staff is to make you look good I am really just the eye candy of my operation My staff is the brains behind it all and I thank them for all of their hard work Obviously, I want to thank all the moms Lolly and Kristen Bran and Dana and the hundreds of advocates who turn this building into their home over the last Couple years to make this happen when I first introduced the medical marijuana bill in 2010 I couldn't get a single co-sponsor. I Could not have imagined that a team like this would eventually a rally around this bill It is truly a humbling experience and as many of you know, I am not given to bouts of excessive humbleness The pain of illness touches us all eventually and so we all united to defeat it one by one My favorite right wing lunatic in the world Mike Fulmer We worked together we studied we begged we cajoled and we argued and we convinced our fellow legislators to join us It was a long and difficult process and it was not without its moments of pain and disappointment But we persevered and now let us pause to actually reflect on what happened here in this place Because it doesn't happen often enough We stopped being Democrats And started being caregivers We stopped being Republicans and started being patients We stopped being liberals and started being problem-solvers And we stopped being conservatives and started being compromisers and we stopped being politicians and Started being human beings The result is the most significant passive piece of social legislation to pass in generations It is among our proudest moments, and it is our gift for generations to come And as I behold this I can't help thinking this is what government is supposed to look like the marrying of our profession and our common humanity as President Kennedy said our most basic common link is that we all inhabit the same planet We all breathe the same air we all cherish our children's future and we are all mortal And today we are all healers Finally I'm gonna remove some of what I'm wearing. I know you've all been waiting for that Specifically the screen campaign for compassion bracelet.  I Promised I would not take it off until this bill was signed into law, and I have worn it every moment since Instantly the same is true of the rest of my wardrobe So I remove this as a symbol as a promise of a promise made and a promise kept I'll donate it to the Smithsonian or the Hard Rock Cafe Whoever asked for it first, but I've never watched it not once not one time, but we will walk out of this building today Into a new world Here's to our future together. Thank you And next I would like to introduce my second favorite wing lunatic representative Mike Burr.  I'm called a rhino What a great day to be here at this Capitol a Sunday governor, thank you for two reasons one I Got out of yard work for three hours The bad news is it's they're waiting just like a lot of other legislation. We have to get done Secondly, it gives a great chance for all these families who have just crossed this state on Every level to lobby us for the work that they wanted to see Don and Harrisburg So it gives a chance for those Who can't get here during the week the lobbyist and I think it's a great courtesy governor He did that today to allow all these families to be here so a little over two years ago a Mother Erin McCann and her son Ryan came to my office and For those you do not know my original issued night stick is on my capital office desk And I live eat and breathe law enforcement So imagine his family coming into a former narcotics officer talking about Daniel Leach kind of talk You know our job is led legislators the easiest thing to do is just say no The hardest thing to do is be patient and listen and educate yourself on the issue And you try to become yes We held a public town hall meeting at orange request and I'll never forget my phone called a senator fulmer.  What are they calling you now that you? introduced this bill Marijuana Mike So we put you know real quick town hall together we packed the lower province township meeting hall and Then we got to meet Heather and Hannah Heather and her daughter Hannah who came down from Pittsburgh and then returned to Pittsburgh that night I'm my district is right outside of King of Prussia in Montgomery County And I sat and listened to testimony and I'm seeing a mother and her child Drive from Pittsburgh and back hours later So I had to listen and by the end of that hearing I stood up. I grabbed Aaron And I said we're gonna do this. I'm gonna weigh in I'm gonna support this bill I remember talking to senator fulmer who came down to that hearing and Testified and helped me get my way through this because my only observation of Marijuana all along was that it was unriacotic and if you had it I would arrest you So I had some transition But see you can transition if you're willing to listen and you're willing to listen to the facts And I talked with representative Dom Costa who is a Democrat and we talk every single week Who's a former chief in Pittsburgh? He's a co-chair at a law enforcement caucus in the house Mike Regan who's a former u.s. Marshal and I And we talked about how we go about this and we wanted to make sure that we were all on the same page Let me just say this This is a medicine and the fact that some people all of a sudden want to in involve and field at the credible FDA is important to us I was blown away on a floor to hear the rhetoric But it's so important for us to focus on the end goal the day where he takes off the bracelet and a day where this Gentleman here signs this bill in the law and that's where we are here today And if I continue to talk it's never gonna become law But governor, thank you for having me speak this was one of the hardest transitions on policy I've ever had But here's the reality There are no black helicopters in this bill There's no black market. There's already that market, and it's another market that I need all of your help to do And the governor knows this and feels passionately about this We must all of you take this victory and the energy from this victory and work with us to deal with the number one killer in Pennsylvania opioid abuse Opioid abuse has no party has no color has no religion It's one thing in common. It kills and we will work together with this group I hope as you as a coalition will help us because let's face it. That's the killer What we're doing today is the healer. Thank you And the Democratic chairman of the judiciary committee, which I sit in and good friend representative Joe Petraca Thank You Mike obviously fantastic fantastic day to be here I think I'm gonna miss the the marijuana advocates who sat right over there in this capital for For days upon days weeks and months certainly we got we got to where we got to where we need to be if we continue to have Days like this governor. We're gonna need a bigger rotunda Which is which is fantastic 90% of pennsylvania support medical marijuana. I think I think you're all here today fantastic fantastic as Representative verb set verb set in the house when we got this bill from the Senate last summer I think there was a lot of skepticism and we formed a task force in the house Democrats and Republicans All of which are here with us today where we started to talk about these issues Started to talk about what this means what this means to Pennsylvanians and Very early on I got a call from a constituent of mine Diana Briggs on behalf of her son Ryan Who asked me what I think of medical marijuana and I said I don't know that much about it To which he replied well, that's gonna change And and and change it did and and and again here we are here. We are today. It was at times very difficult road As we got toward the end I think so many people realize the benefits of medical marijuana that it just it just certainly carried the day In the house, there's so many people to thank we worked very well together Republicans and Democrats on the task force I too would like to thank my staff Tim Clages who did a lot of work on this and especially Sarah speed Who did tremendous work day in and day out on this issue and again helped us to get to get where we are today And as we as we are here in the final moments before this becomes law I would just like to say as people thank all of us for our work that We want to thank you. We want to thank the advocates. We want to thank the moms without The mothers we would not be here and it certainly reminds me of the famous Margaret Mead quote about Never doubt that a small group of concerned citizens Can change the world indeed is the only thing that ever has well. Well, here we are And again as I see this I don't I don't see us as Politicians or Republicans or Democrats or elected officials We are just people finally speaking trying to help other people our veterans our families our children and with that I would like to introduce someone who's getting a very special birthday present today Absolute superstar Absolute superstar a tiger Lolli bench tops this birthday next year. That's very sweet Thank you It's a little bit nerve-wracking to be up here. I didn't really write down a speech and I'm just a wee bit nervous But I think I mostly am just filled with gratitude today and want to just take this opportunity to of course extend Thanks to several heroes in my heart First of all to governor Tom Wolf I'm not sure when the first time was that I met Tom Wolf, but You know at the time we were dealing with a very different administration We actually along with the Dalen over here had to Threaten to sit in in the former governor's office in order to get him to return Any of our phone calls just to get a return phone call So as soon as I met Tom Wolf and you know went back to the group of Corisans said, oh my gosh He's fabulous. You're gonna love him We were filled with hope from that moment forward and we had your back and You've always had our back and we just want to say thank you so much And you know, of course we have several other champions Dalen and Mike here and Champions in the house and Mike Jim. Oh my goodness. There's just there's so many of them And I can't possibly name them all but it's been a pleasure to work with each one of them You know a lot of people have said to us You would have never gotten this issue off the ground had it not been for you know, Mike or or for, you know, whoever I'll be I'll be brutally honest We would have found somebody to take this over the finish line. Okay.  These guys have been Just a dream team to work with every single one of them, you know, Joe You kept Diana to speed for us and it was we'll never be able to repay you for it You know all the assurance that we've had we were able to you know, shoot them a text message If we were just you know crying uncontrollably is this really happening, you know And and they would give us the reassurance that they need and just say trust us everything's gonna be okay These guys had our back every minute of every day But they made it fun and I think that's what's so important It was so important for our community because you know, although that this whole process has been long and Torturous and it seemed like it was just never gonna end and it was tear-filled And it was heartbreaking because we lost people along the way But we had each other and we were all together and that's what was most important And these guys were just part of family, you know It was just a large extended group of family that fought together and I just want to thank our community of advocates I don't think that a lot of you give yourselves the credit that you deserve, but you do As my mom likes to remind us you weren't between a rock and a hard place You were the rock in the hard place. So give yourselves a hand And we adopted a quote that I think has sort of Carried us through this and we often You know remind each other of this quote I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone into the water that will create many ripples You all created ripples every time you told your story you created a ripple every time you asked somebody to pray for you You created a ripple every time you called your representative or your senator or sent a letter you created a ripple And every single one of those gestures was extremely meaningful and that is why we are here today And I want to remind you that Had it not been such a long journey had it not felt like torture at times today wouldn't be nearly as special If we had just been handed this victory early on, you know two years ago today wouldn't be nearly as special We worked really hard for this and we won compassion won today promise I'll be done soon, but Lastly, I Want to I wanted to just recognize one very very special individual Campaign for compassion is often referred to as the moms the mama bears, you know And we're given a lot of the credit and a lot of the accolades But someone who's always there for us someone who was one of our very early on Co-founding members and who has been really the backbone of this movement is a chronic pain patient named Luke Schultz Some of you may have noticed Luke at some point here in the capital because he's the only one standing in a room He's the only one standing in a meeting and it is because he's in such severe chronic pain that he cannot physically sit down But he gets here for everything. He's driven here in a cot in the back of his van He makes it here every single time he has been dedicated to this cause and he has done everything that we've ever Needed to have done so I'd like to First of all name him an honorary mama bear And I want him to be recognized as the MVP of the medical cannabis movement And with that I think I'm gonna wrap it up. I just want to say thank you again all of you for being here It's been a real honor to be part of this team It was I think a labor of love for so many of us And I'm just so grateful for this day to finally be here. Thank you You know so many people have come up to me today and say can you believe this day has come? I just can't believe it and I keep saying yes, I can I can believe it's here I never doubted for a minute that it would come. I didn't think it would quite take this long But I never doubted for one second that this day would come It's been full of lots of tears and lots of trials But never did I doubt this day would come because I knew that the people in this room The people behind me the legislators that have surrounded us with their love and their compassion I never doubted this day would come and it's here I laid in bed last night and I was looking at my daughter who is the reason I got into this fight And I think a lot of us have gotten into this fight for a loved one and for me It was my daughter Lorelai and I just caressed the little contours of her face And I thank the Lord that she's made it this far to see this day and I just thought over the timeline of this journey and walking into senator Fulmer's office and I thought this is our guy. This is our guy Sorry Senator Leach, I know you were working really hard before he came on to the scene, but I knew that senator Fulmer was gonna be the guy who could could get together with you and make this work And I went back to Lali and I said senator Fulmer is our guy He can help us we can make this happen and we got tons of information together Lali and I and we went back to senator Fulmer and We convinced him that he was our guy It took some time, but we convinced him And so You know the the the events that played out in my mind. I mean they were almost tangible And and I thanked God. I I mean the glory has to go to him first to God For big D here for being brave enough to having you know, I mean clearly he had you know He's a head of the curve on most things But you know for Being brave enough to stand up for this issue before a lot of people were You know and Mike Fulmer I could say he's just being brave enough for teaming up with this guy But they went from being you know crazy Dalen and Marijuana Mike to being true champions to this cause and You know, they will forever be known from this day forward as People that we have always known them to be which are champions to this cause they are saving They are going to save the lives of millions of people from this day on People that they will never meet They're saving the lives of Because they said yes when others said no and I can't thank them enough for that I Want to thank Governor Wolf who did the same thing We had an administration We had an administration that came before that it was always closed doors and turned backs And we never had that with Governor Wolf He was always open-armed and ready to fight for us whenever we needed it And so thank you Governor Wolf from the bottom of our hearts. So today as I finish I Think the most important message I want to put out there is That when you get a group of truly dedicated people together That have the same goal and the same mind and the same hearts you can achieve anything You truly can Don't give up. Don't give in Thank you to all of our legislators. Thank you to all of our patient advocates all of the caretakers Truly from the bottom of our hearts. Thank you so much and God bless you all Okay, I am now going to make it official. Is that all right?


Welcome back lovely people it is time for another Q&A this is part four of my animation Q&A part four because there are a lot of questions questions yes a while back I posted a clip where I ask if anybody had any questions lots of people had questions there's a lot to go through so I want to go through that and just in case you're wondering channel what my name is JD I do a channel where I do animation lectures I do acting analysis clips I do rig reviews animation news post feedback I post product reviews Q&A's like I said lots of stuff so feel free to browse around and if that's of interest to you feel also free to subscribe so you don't miss any of my uploads but that's the pitch every time just in case you're wondering and you're here for the first time but let's go through and as always I'm gonna read through those questions so if you want to just listen to all of this you know what the questions are let's get to it I mean comfortable here it's gonna be usually a longer clip actually the mic it's on this time yes it is on then the first one is original Dan with a longer question here sort of follow up to a previous question a week ago do you spend much time pre-planning or do you more often jump right into poses blocking you've mentioned you visualize until it's clear in your mind so how often do you film find reference film slash find reference does the visualization process get easier with experience or should every level jump into it a similar way I found I'll visualize post blocks line polish only to change my mind much later and redo half the animation or over polish and ruin the whole thing uh good question and it's probably an answer you don't like where I would say it depends and I'm saying depends because if it really depends if I am doing something at home which always it's been a while or something at work and then at work it depends how much time you have are we doing is it early in the show where we have time is it something where I get on to a show where it's towards the end and it's just you kind of get the shot and get going do we have time schedule wise to pre-plan I think it really depends ideally yes you want to pre-plan the way I do it if I would average the process I definitely spend about half the time thinking about it and half the time that's not true the last couple shows it's been very vehicle-heavy it's kind of your Star Wars-y even that Marvel commercial it was it was a title schedule so it was not that much time to shoot reference so I say if I can shoot reference I do but if you have vehicles and Star Wars-y things you don't I just kind of you know you got me ships and stuff and then depending on some creatures like I remember Force Awakens had those raft cars those rolly things so I did some tests for that and then you kind of build the character on top of that but there wasn't really any reference for it so sometimes you just can't for Star Wars Squadrons there was an employee that shot mocap so we had that for reference we got the actual mocap data and then we got a close-up of the face and then you kind of pick and choose from that if it works and if it doesn't work sometimes you're gonna make it up so the close-ups that I did that was kind of me making it up because they just felt fast it was I had a clear idea of what I wanted to do the game which goes back to visualizing what do you want to do so if I can if it's something complicated I just want references to so I know what the process is if it's like fight scenes on on more fighty type movies or creatures that I know I don't know by heart in terms of how they move they look emotion just anatomy and how well how they do stuff but I find most of the times lately it's been just thinking about in my head and I mean it doesn't get easier it's just when you get something that's familiar then you can do it a bit faster but just as a as a check I don't know I feel like if it's something at work where it's a bit more high level and you know you're working for someone I just want to make sure that every box has been checked off in terms of I checked every reference I looked at everything I can do all the research I needed to then get into the shop if there is time obviously it's not always time for it but I don't want to just go like I'm gonna make something up here on the couple hundred million dollar movie type of thing blah blah blah not that I'm shouldering that response will be this responsibility and that the movie hinges on my shop not at all but still it's I treat it differently than if I am at home so if I do something with like some test here or something for someone at home I might potentially be a bit more relaxed depending what the end result is sort of a long answer but and you find that you re-visualize halfway through yeah I mean that's just different at work because you can't just change your mind and do something else and you also have your marching orders in terms of do this and that's your goal that's a story point you want to get across so it's also somewhat quote-unquote easier at work because you're given clear guidelines then if you just do something at home like as a student you make something up and then halfway through you might not like it and then you have to go and redo it it's just a bit different situation there as always I hope any of these answers help next up is uh Daven David Daven are we down hi JD I have a question how big is our chance to be able to work in a big studio if taking online classes compared to someone who is self-taught thank you that is a question I can't really answer because there's some people there's someone at work that is primarily self-taught and is a genius like it's so good and then some people do really well with online classes and some people do just as well with on-site classes where there's you know me as a teacher there and it's a class you get up and you act things out and you work together and it really that really depends on your ability to learn and what you prefer what you're learning ways are some people are very visual some people like to read some people learn best by doing um so it's not really I can't really say that the chances are ultimately is it comes down to your portfolio where that's where you have control over it you want to create something good that's on your reel then it's your interviews it's your personality and how you come across in that interviews that's somewhat where you are in control and then it's just outside factors like timing and budget and things and we're just you know or a pandemic where you have zero control of what's going on um so yeah I think I don't think the online classes versus self-taught is making a difference ultimately if your reel is good that's your first step to get in there we have socket malpani I have two questions one how should I approach to acting facial shots after being done enough with body mechanics okay two this one is kind of stupid and regarding job opportunities it's probably not stupid I want to know how do animators approach towards job opportunities do they send their show reel or portfolio to and every company or there is a website platform where we can post our show reel and various company recruiters can see it sorry for my bad English I hope you can I hope you are clear with I mean to say totally clear solely fine don't worry you speak multiple languages don't be sorry one so how should you approach the acting facial shots after being done enough with body mechanics the thing is the the classical way or the way I was taught was you do body mechanics first and then facial at the end everything has to go through your body mechanics as the attitude and the posing and everything and just the general body language and the facial stuff is just actually on the cake which to some degree I agree it's also depends if it's a full body or close-up then you have to have a bit of a different approach but what I would say is once you are done with your body mechanics and you add in the actual facial stuff what I see with the students and then something that's sometimes lacking in work is that you have to look at the amount of energy and force that the character is expelling if that's the word while they talk right so if you're whispering you're going it's going to be minimal shapes and minimal jaw that is probably not going to affect the head unless there's an intent of right so do you have specific accents that will tell us something more about the acting choice or the intent or maybe a subtext even but if you have more energy and the character goes hey what are you doing here get off my lawn type of thing you're going to have to join over the airplane you have a lot of shouting a lot of energy and you go so you have to make sure that like in your body acting you might not have that yelling in there because you haven't really thought about the lip sync yet it might just be your whatever steps sit down whatever you have and then make sure that you don't just do jaw and and the shapes here because otherwise it feels like you're yelling but you're doing this you're still going to have something in the jaw that's going to change the head inhale potentially depending if that if you have that in your shapes or how real your your shot is you know in terms of style but you're going to have you're going to have more things that go with the amount of yelling or energy or whatever you have in in the audio so I would just say the approach would be don't forget that they're linked to depending on what the person is saying and how they're saying it and also in terms of subtext like I always like to show that true blood clip where she goes I can I can depend on that she doesn't go I can depend on that right it's I can depend on that right just that head lift is turns the thing from a question to a command so I would just look at everything together do your body mechanics but just be mindful of what is the character the acting choice is what do you want to do with the lip sync it's a lip sync affecting the body as well and is there anything in your in the lip sync in terms of the acting that will change the body like the head up saying this so it goes from a question to command because a lot of times I see students who they do the acting but not the acting that's based on the lip sync and the intent it's more this is bodily what it's supposed to happen and then they do the lip sync and then it's just kind of it just feels separate where the body mechanics do one thing and then the lip sync and you know the audio says something else and this doesn't make sure that you can then go back and change your body mechanics a bit to potentially emphasize or add subtext or something to the performance if that makes sense so the question is here how do animators approach job opportunities so usually you send your reel to the company company has an online portal where you upload your reel you put a new cover letter your resume that's probably the first thing that you do I would also just post it on social media if you can for visibilities maybe that someone sees this and recommends that what they saw to someone else in the HR department or to a supervisor who then gets the machine rolling and going to hire that person but there is Zerpley I think that was the site there are a couple sites I don't remember all those different names but where they kind of collect where people can put their reels on there I don't know if recruiters go specifically on there so I know there are sites that focus on reels where you can post your stuff as a showcase area but I don't know if recruiters go there that's my ignorant answer so I don't know the process there the I mean don't ignore the the regular process of looking at the company website and seeing when they say we're looking for someone how to apply and doing everything on their site and uploading things that should be done 100% and then outside of that if again if you find a site that posts real why not post it there like why not post it real on LinkedIn because tons of professionals are there so I would do that second and then you know in Instagram and Twitter just for visibility and maybe it goes viral or not it doesn't matter but like the more visibility you have the more it might potentially increase the chance that someone sees it that has the right influence to show it to someone else that's going to decide if you want if you can get an interview maybe I don't know I've heard of someone more than one where they got a job through social media so again that's why I'm always um adding that I wouldn't discount that null null curry curry curry hi JD I'm currently a 2d animator here in the Philippines I just want to ask what do you think is the future of cartoons will our industry be obsolete do I have to learn 3d if that happens ASAP can you give us some idea transitioning to 2d to 3d thank you additional question I only know how to animate doesn't animator should also know how to design his own character to animate good questions um and I'm gonna be very ignorant about the first one where I don't know the future of cartoons will the industry be obsolete no I don't think so and do I have to learn 3d if that happens ASAP let's put it this way there was a big shift from 2d to 3d so yes that happened where you should learn 3d blah blah blah blah but now as it continues 2d is some I won't say someone coming back but there's more work in 2d than it was before it's still not huge and the box office is not the same as 3d but then you also you're gonna have 2d in in tv that would be my again I'm not an expert on this so this is a very ignorant answer but like I'm watching Star Trek lore decks there is some 3d in there but it's also a lot of 2d mainly so I think depending on time and budget 2d is going to be better and faster and cheaper to some degree depending on the style you gotta keep it limited and I think that's why tv uses a lot too if you have a full cg show and tv yeah to me that seems again I have a zero insight but it seems it's very time consuming and expensive also really cool if they can do it but if you stay limited in 3d it can also look kind of cheap subjectively if it's like there's not enough movement and you have all that especially also if the texture and light it in a specific way you have all that 3d-ness and the tangible aspect of 3d models but then the animation is so limited to me that's kind of a clash and to me you can get away with more limited 2d animation so I don't think 2d is gonna go away but who knows like I don't again I have zero idea can you give us some ideas transitioning I can't because I don't know 2d I've done it in school like a class or two but that's all so I can't really tell you that I apologize but if anybody's watching this who's done 2d who's transitioned who has more knowledge with that feel free to comment and help know and in terms of anime do you need to know how to design a character yes and no I mean you can just animate and be successful quote unquote whatever success means to you but you can do that then some people also like to rig and some people also like to design or to storyboard so anything you know more than just animate is going to open up your skill set and it's gonna you know buy it in your your attractiveness to anybody who wants to hire you if that's your goal and if you are more an independent animator want to do your own things then it helps you because you can do more things on your own you have a bit more control or if someone else does it at least you have the knowledge you critique it in a proper way so if I will get something like if I would do something and I have I see designs I can only speak in terms of this is how I react to it and this is what I can imagine a character to be but I can't give very specific design notes in terms of how to design a character and do those notes so I think the more you know the easier it's going to be for you to understand what you see and get feedback but do you have to know no just depends if you want if you have the time if you have enough time to do animation really well and learn it really well while doing another thing also really well I think there's always going to be not enough time for anything that's on top of just animating but some people are really good at being generalists and to do fantastic work so it just comes down to how you learn do you have the time you have the financial means means and so on so it's kind of it's kind of an answer I don't know if I can answer this in a helpful way Badal? I don't know what are expectations of studio from a new animator well depends on the studio depends on the product depends on the style and where you are I mean I can't speak for other studios but I think the minimum would be that you're at least proficient in terms of body mechanics and polish where your animation looks correct within the confines of your style my super stylized versus photoreal like that gamut or whatever you do at games and VR and stuff but at least you want to look at work in Nako U there was a pop or there was a one frame direction change or the body mechanics were off the balance is off the way it's just too light all of those things need to work I would say that's probably the minimum and then you're going to look at creative choices if it's a studio that's heavily relying on performance where it's a lot of acting stuff then you're probably going to look at the acting first and hopefully body mechanics obviously is not a distracting thing that's wrong so what are the expectations that you can animate that sounds really stupid but by animate I mean again no pops they're nice arcs it's just technically looks you can animate that doesn't mean that you have good ideas or it's dramatic or funny or whatever that's obviously the next thing and then if that stands out very creative ideas of how to do either an acting piece or something else that's going to be the extra plus because the thing is ultimately everybody gets to a point where they can polish things well and that's kind of that's why to me it feels like that's the minimum line the other thing above that is what's important your creative ideas and choices and just your your sensibility of humor and timing and stuff like that but it needs to have at least no pops crazy arcs off-balance stuff and it's usually when you watch something within a second or so you can tell who that was off that's weird that's too stiff that's kind of too twin like there's just some there's a list of technical things that you you can see if they work or not within a second or two so but I'll is asking question again how to work as independent artist I don't know I'm not an independent artist how will we get work I don't know I'm not an artist how will we earn from it I don't know so basically this is all about independent artists what is most challenging to work as an independent artist or to work in a studio I don't know sorry what kind of challenges or difficulties you face when you work as an independent artist this is all about independent artists I don't know because I have been working at a studio for almost 17 years that is my bubble that's all I know I have not done freelance I haven't worked as an independent artist so unfortunately this whole section I don't know I would I would have some guesses but then I feel like they're just uninformed guesses that will waste everybody's time so any independent artist post in the comments if they have links if you have your experiences or tips and tricks I would look at the comments if possible José Pablo Granera hey Jerry do you have any tips regarding characters interacting with other characters or with props like maybe when to use parents or constraints or locators or just by key framing it's an interesting question I would say interacting with other characters I think it will all depend on the length of time of that interaction and by that I mean if you have someone that just kind of does like a head push I'm doing this because I'm sitting it's easier if I just do this I wouldn't use any constraints because it's it's just a couple frames of pushing so I would just go frame by frame and you can have this and the complexity the complexity of the fingers pushing the shape going in all depending on the style obviously if it's more stylized it will be simpler none of that squishiness here potentially so to me if it's something very short then I keyframe it to punch a shove or something or even even if like if I move I have a glass here so if I move that glass quickly or if I you know if this is on the on the floor and I do something like this to me this is all short and I would keyframe that if you hold something for a longer piece of a period of time constraints and then it depends on the extra control that I want to have so if I do this right I I will probably constrain this to the wrist I would have a hierarchy of multiple locators parented underneath and then all that grouped and then I would have that the phone within within that group and to me the the group would be parented to the hand so basically if I do this the phone will go with it but the problem is that if I now rotate my wrist the phone is going to stay put right so you have to make sure that it's constraints to the translates in the roads like a rotate so that if I move my wrist it's basically doing this it follows that but what you're missing if you just do a straight parent constraint or point order constraint like this is that you don't have any of this you don't have any the flexibility of changing the finger pose which then changes the phone so that's why you want multiple controls where you still have extra control where yes it follows it but you can still have a locator underneath where you can animate the phone independently so even if the fingers do nothing you can still do this with the phone so now you can start animating fingers and have the phone react to it so that it's that's kind of my my process in terms of handling um props and even if you if you have interaction with the character if you do a fight scene and someone holds this I don't want to just constrain it like this because then you you don't have the possibilities to do this you still want that hands to follow this arm but you might you know like this there's squishiness here so if I do like a girl like that I want that to again depending on the style but if it's more for the real you're gonna have compression here and then your skin and muscle and tendon and fat whatever depending on where you touch things it's going to move alongside the thing I'm holding I can still do all of this while I do this right so I want to have a setup that allows me a constraint to follow each other depending on what the action is and within that another at least one other controller where I can do still extra stuff to move the wrist or whatever you have and that's kind of that's kind of that because if it's a longer thing then you start keyframing things to me it takes way too long and also you might end up having a jitter because you're not you're not in the same spot and with a constraint you are in the same spot but then it looks constrained where it's way too clean so you want a bit of imperfection and changes so that's why I have that multiple hierarchy approach next question by debora hi JD could you please give advice on how to choose the area field in animation that you fit into the most as for how can you choose between pursuing 2d 3d or even modeling and rigging how did you find your own personal preference thank you for reading amazing channel by the way thank you so much that's very kind of you and I can't really answer that it's tricky because how do you find the the chosen field I mean I wanted to do um I wanted to do visual effects so that's the first class that I took at the academy and I don't think I even I might have even walked out of the class it's probably I sat in the class and once the class was done I realized too much scripting too much math and stuff and it's not hands-on so actually I wanted to special effects like in terms of computer special effects and that was then when I realized that doesn't work well let me just try animation character animation type stuff and that's kind of how I found my preference I kind of knew what I wanted but not really I was I was not I was very naive going into this and then it was kind of like a blind choice of well you know because I like I grew up you know I'm a child from the 80s meaning like I have star wars and star trek and yanna jones and ghostbusters and goonies and like just that's just a lot of ilm work but it's a lot of visual effects twisters and and lightsabers and lightning and stuff like that and I thought that was really cool I liked animation as well but I wasn't very smart and I lumped this all into one thing and once I realized that oh if you do those kind of effects with simulations and stuff it's not the hands-on thing that I was wanting to do I'm sure there's a way to do it hands-on as well but it just at that point it's like that's not what I want to do let me just switch to character animation and thankfully I liked it and and you know the rest you know what I would say the rest is history it sounds arrogant but that's where I am now like I'm doing character animation but we are doing other things at ilm where it's not just character it's also vehicles and all kinds of things it's different stuff which I like a lot so that's kind of how I found it the reason why I'm saying I can't really answer is because I don't know your preferences I don't know your your affinity to certain areas or your quote-unquote talent so I don't know I don't know if you want to do 2d or 3d it depends what do you really like and then it depends on what are the opportunities maybe you're really like 2d over your city-wise there's no industry that supports 2d so you might have to move somewhere is that something that you can do in a form I don't know maybe you have to go to a different country that's even trickier so it I know like you want to do modeling or rigging that depends 100% up to you in terms of your initial you know initiative I want to do this and then it depends can you do this in terms of location financially are there is there any schooling around do you prefer as we talked about before do you prefer on-site schooling is it okay to do online I think there's many many factors that are very specific to you that I can't really answer so yeah I can only answer my personal preference next up Don Newman my question is a follow-up to the effort video how do you catch yourself when you are over tweaking I need to move on I think at work there is no over tweaking this going to sound really weird just because you have you have your specific goals and things you need to do and you have a specific deadline and that deadline is always going to be there and depending on maybe some factors it might get pushed to some degree but that deadline is there so I can't really over tweak but to me over tweaking sounds like I have too much time and I never really have too much time when it comes to work stuff so there's always there's always a looming deadline you always know that I gotta get this done by then and I always wish I had more time so I think it will have to be something if I do something at home where I have an open deadline it's my own deadline the way I was gonna spend a while but the over tweaking to be honest it's hard to answer because it's I I set very specific self-imposed deadlines like even like the last clip with the pigeon that I was referring to the last clip that I did I did that over the weekend two days and I wanted it a because I wanted to show it to the students next week and also don't want to spend more time animating which is more time away at home from my family so to me it was I have whatever nine hour block a 10 hour block during the day and at the end of those two days I'm done even if it's not great I'm not going to touch this anymore and I did the same thing with other clips that I worked at at home where I had kind of a I'm going to work on this for a couple of days and that's it I probably should have spent more time to really finish it more but I know I always had the I know for me it was always a work it's always been a work-life balance even as the students even though I worked a lot more as a student like long hours getting my work done and you know for class and stuff and we're having a reel that looks good but so quickly after that I just like to sleep and I like to be healthy and I just I don't work well if I'm tired or sick obviously so to me it's always it doesn't matter what's going on I'm always going to force myself to stop so I can rest spend time with family or right now exercise where just there's always a balance where I don't always constantly work because physical deterioration and you also get tunnel vision you don't have enough perspective where if you always there and looking at your work after a while you kind of lose track of what's going on and I need to have a little break so you can come back with fresh eyes so that's why that's why I have to be honest I have a hard time answering that question because I'm not I never really over tweak because the over tweak at work is there's also a deadline someone's going to go hey where's the shop so you can't do too much and then at home I have my own deadlines where I just wanted I don't want to over tweak let's pretend I'm over tweaking how do I catch myself I think there comes a point where you will have to realize it and that would be my ignorant answer to a hypothetical situation where I go if I'm constantly watching this and then I go oh three hours have passed maybe I should stop looping my shot I look at things that's when I catch myself in me like that's I think it's when I when I realize based on time maybe that's an answer where I go where did the time go I haven't done anything I don't know but I just have also very rigorous kind of work flow where I look at the things that I need to do and I make a list either mentally if it's a long list and I write it down and then as I fix my stuff I go through that I think this is this okay not continue on I think the only thing where I it's not that I over tweak but where I spend time it's just I sit and watch it and I go over and over and I go is the root working is the chest working is the head working arm so I want to make sure that everything has nice arcs no pops and then you gotta take a step back and then look at does it work as a whole now let me check elbows for ours does it work as a whole that I would say it's not an over tweaking but I just have a have that list that I go through so that maybe that helps me not over tweak this is such a rambly answer Don's going this was useless useless answer oh all right abram abram the shame the shame the shame almost me over shashank redemption there I have a very very important question that demands the utmost attention my question is what's up how are you doing yeah I couldn't think of anything at the top of my head well a ram abram uh I'm doing well I'm doing well I'm going to end this is what seven minutes into my second taping so it's going to be like a 40 minutes Q&A how about we end it with that I'm doing well I'm slightly tired because I got up and I did the Q&A right when I got up so I'm not tired of anything I'm just kind of sleepy and I need to get dressed this is kind of like my shirt that I put on that I found let's put on a hat blah blah blah but yeah I'm good thank you and it's a good it's a good question to answer because it's kind of goes back into maybe over tweaking I'm going to end this Q&A with make sure that you do have a system in place where you catch yourself where you just you have a bit of a a like I said a list to go through what to pay attention to you know is clarity there are the poses clear it does the timing work the mechanics wise did you go through like do you work layered where like I work layered in terms of I look at the root and the chest and the head you're all built on top of each other then you take a step back does it work as a whole but sometimes you tweak something and you work on the root and you think this is all smooth then you look at the whole thing go oh but that changed the feeling and the timing of the general thing that I wanted to do and you kind of mess it up so you have that always kind of I always go back and forth but yeah I would say just try to find a system so you don't over tweak find a system that is so you don't overwork yourself make sure you take breaks I always find like I just find that I'm faster and better when I take frequent breaks and that break can just be a couple minutes where you just kind of get up and move around a bit maybe go downstairs I always have either glass of water or my bottle somewhere bottles downstairs and I just refill it just forces me to get up stretch a bit and I come back and I look at something hopefully fresh eyes like oh okay let me tweak this I didn't see this before every now and then of course you are in some form of flow or something in some groove where you just really want to finish this and then you then I push things where I go I should probably take a break I got the reminders on my watch everywhere like you should get up and stand up and stretch your legs and I go no no no no I ignore this I want to finish this moment yes that happens I definitely have moments where I just overdo it where I just two three hours straight eyes are red and do this but I just really want to get to that moment because you have that inspiration or you're just in that nice groove of finishing and then I take a longer break because again I don't want to I still want to get in a situation where I compromise myself physically either my eyes my back my my shoulders my fingers because then that's going to force me to not work right so and then I can't which means I can't finish the project I have to take time off what if I don't have any time off left then it's unpaid that creates problem with bills and so on and so on it's there's a you know repercussion things of if you just physically not able to animate so I just put a big emphasis on staying healthy quote unquote and then my students know how much chocolate I eat and and sometimes with the crap that I eat and it's just not healthy so I'm not you know I'm not 100% great here in terms of staying healthy but yeah that will be the answer to how are you doing I'm doing well yeah I'm ended at that again I don't know if that's helpful at all but I'll leave it with I hope you're doing well all of you that are watching this I hope that anything that I'm saying here was helpful because you spend time and I hope it wasn't a waste of your time you can still post questions if you want in the comments I'm still going through the main post and there are some questions every now and then come up so I'm going to pull that into another part and that's kind of that take care of yourself make sure that you take care of yourself and your loved ones and stay healthy definitely work if you can animate have have a good process and workflow to get there in a good and efficient way and find something that you can latch on to that you love about what you're doing right now so that you have the energy to continue through moments where you are doubting yourself or the feedback that comes in that makes you doubt yourself and I'm rambling so I'm going to leave it at that that's it so thanks for watching and you know the usual pitch like and subscribe that's what you say on YouTube but I've seen people subscribing more than lately I don't know why it was kind of reduced some of my posts so thank you thank you for subscribing I saw a lot of people commenting on my woody that sounds really weird my woody clip my toy story clip of the toy attached to the car that I filmed 10 years ago I don't remember it's a long time ago some reason that clip is back in rotation I don't know what's going on there anyway it's fun it's fun to do the channel it's fun to see what people react to and the fact that people are tuning in and watching and subscribing still blows my mind I think I just crossed 22 000 subscribers I am confused but I'm very grateful and I hope that whatever I'm putting on the channel is of help and entertaining and just 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