#but also is eyes of heaven canon
as a person who makes trash gifs, i’ve come to appreciate animation, and wanted to share why i love bruno bucciarati’s animations so much. long post with lots of bruno gifs. ofc, spoilers
let’s look at the very first episode. pay attention to his eyes:
look at how ANIMATED his eyes are. any animator could’ve just made his eyes/face static while having only his mouth move, but they BOTHERED to make bruno’s eyes (and JAW!) animated. it might not seem like much, but it makes him so much more INTERESTING to look at. almost like, you can’t take your eyes off of him, or you’ll miss something.
and then THIS part, after he punches giorno the first time and puts luca’s fingers in his mouth:
BUT if you pause it, right before he says the line, there’s this single, subtle, frame:
make of that what you will, but to me, it’s almost as if he’s both disgusted and concerned (for giorno) by what just happened before he puts on his “gangstar” facade again. like, there’s a reason this frame exists, they bothered to put it there, what do you all think?
here’s some more eye things:
i slowed this one down so you could see all the frames that were used. SO animated. and it’s not just his eyes, sometimes his HEAD moves. they DID that.
even in combat/dangerous situations, or maybe especially in combat/dangerous situations, his eyes move. he’s always observing his surroundings, planning the next move in his head. i don’t think ANY of the other characters have this quirk (but correct me if i’m wrong maybe i’m just hyper-attentive to bruno because he’s my favorite):
even when he’s DRIVING???? his eyes are animated, for a split second.
even as diavolo??????? his eyes????? are so animated?????
EVEN HIS EYE SPARKLES ARE ANIMATED AS DIAVOLO?????
and this is BRILLIANT because this is like, bruno’s THING. that’s how you can tell bruno’s in there, even if his body is different, because even before the soul switching, his eyes had that sparkle (examples below) or was animated in some way (examples above):
they could’ve gone the lazy route and made bruno very static, but they MADE bruno such a better/deeper/more interesting character just by adding these subtle things. he’s responsive to things, and you can seeit, even if he doesn’t say or do anything, he’s definitely thinking about and processing it, which informs his actions. that’s also what makes him a good leader: he thinks first, then acts (unless something defies his moral values).
so there ya go. want to make an anime character more interesting without taking up too much time? ANIMATE their FACE and move the story along instead of dumping a 10 min. internal dialogue about how a character is feeling
