HEY I watched Lu Over The Wall some weeks ago and that was an absolute gem
so I wanted to give a small analysis to one of the best scenes aka what I call
"the dance on the beach" scene ! You can see it here : the dance scene
We can immediately see how extremely expressive and dynamic it's going to be, this is a funny, light-hearted scene. The poses and exaggeration are a straightup reference to the looney tunes/tex avery's styles, very cartoonish. The population behind are very tiny and not much detailed compared to Lu herself who is very contrasted by her varied colors and how she appears on the foreground.
EXACTLY WHAT I MEANT BY TEX AVERY REFERENCES LOL the characters are extremely round and look at these shoes
yes I know you're mostly looking at the chins but look at these shoes
Your feet are too close... I was wondering if the fact her feet are going further than the
umbrella is a symbol for the fact she can't show herself to the sun...hmm!
There are some small smears to accentuate the movement as there's a big shortcut on the feet
The weirdest in this part is that her body and face aren't moving at all, only her feet and legs!
Also everyone behind is moving way faster, in 1 fps meanwhile she's moving in 2 fps
These are 2 inbetweens next to each other so I guess the animators are just going wild and doing straightup the main poses
Very fast jump!! Also the camera is going faster than her, doing a side travelling to the right, but she stays in the shot anyway
She schlorps on the ground, her roll is way slower than her other movements and has more inbetweens, everyone stops in the background
I just really like this screencap for all the different shapes and very shocked faces FDOIJBOGFN the poses are so funny and it’s standing still for such a long time
She's back!!! The tiny foot behind and the big shortcut on the other foot is a huge contrast and make the pose really super dynamic!
And then a lot of these shots just...Repeat themselves until the end of the scene And that's all for this scene and Lu Over the Wall!! I really loved this movie so I really wanted to try giving an analysis to one of the funniest scenes, Yuasa's animators are really incredible and this style is one of my favorite, whether in Devilman Crybaby or Tatami Galaxy... Everything is so colorful, dynamic, fast, cute or terrific and that always gives me PLEEENTY of emotions
