“This yr, it’s very telling that every one the animated motion pictures are involved with demise. And likewise fathers, sons, daughters, moms. Actually, two themes unifying all our motion pictures,” Guillermo del Toro noticed as he and his fellow animators gathered to speak store in a digital roundtable on Nov. 2. Within the stop-motion Pinocchio, administrators del Toro and Mark Gustafson reimagine the oft-told story of the puppet who yearns to be an actual boy in Nineteen Thirties Fascist Italy, whereas Joel Crawford’s Puss in Boots: The Final Want continues the adventures of one other acquainted character as he confronts his ninth and probably remaining life. Henry Selick’s stop-motion Wendell & Wild revolves round an orphaned lady who groups up with two demons from the underworld; Nora Twomey’s My Father’s Dragon, primarily based on the youngsters’s novel, tells of a younger boy who joins forces with a cowardly dragon; and Don Corridor’s Unusual World follows a household of explorers into mysteriously candy-colored uncharted territory. In the meantime, Domee Shi’s Turning Purple stays nearer to residence because it tackles the turmoil of puberty. Animated movies, they agreed, provide infinite potentialities, as they mentioned difficult expectations for the medium, embracing imperfections and inspiring range.
“Animation is movie.” That’s a quote that we hear an increasing number of steadily. What does that phrase imply to you?
GUILLERMO DEL TORO Movie and animation, stay motion, they had been born very shut to one another. And in some unspecified time in the future, animation was entertaining all audiences. And it wasn’t till it began to make ungodly quantities of cash by means of youthful audiences that it began to veer towards being dangerous in North America. However in Europe, and in locations like Japan, locations like Britain, it preserved a few of its id as an artwork kind and a medium. I consider by way of themes and tone and ambition, we shouldn’t be reined in to being a McNugget once we need to make a five-course meal.
DOMEE SHI I completely agree with Guillermo. For me, animation and movie are one and the identical. Animation has all the time pushed the boundaries of filmmaking, and it’s such an incredible and highly effective medium that’s in contrast to some other medium, as a result of it may attain the most individuals and you’ll speak about something. You may put something in animation, something that your creativeness can consider.
JOEL CRAWFORD That’s level, Domee. Animation transports you to a different world, to different characters. Each body, every part, must be created from scratch with function. There’s one thing whimsical, fantastical about animation normally that has a chance to take audiences and put them within the footwear of a personality that they wouldn’t in any other case relate to.
Nora, you’re primarily based in Eire. How do individuals method it there?
NORA TWOMEY We have now a really Western custom of anticipating animation to be for kids and households. Speaking as a mother, kids have a particular relationship with drawing. They see it as a technique of determining the world, a technique of communication, a technique of constructing some type of which means from the chaos. I feel that’s extremely fantastic. I feel the entire McNugget factor comes into play as a result of animation could be actually costly. It’s actually time-consuming. You’re speaking possibly half a decade of any individual’s life to create one movie. The pressures of artwork and commerce colliding can have a extremely horrible bearing on somebody who simply needs to inform story. However there are methods of respecting that viewers, and particularly kids, who I don’t assume ought to want this sort of gloss over tales, that are actually good companions that get you thru actually powerful instances, it doesn’t matter what age you’re. We’re all the time up in opposition to the expectation that it may be a babysitter, full cease, however I feel that’s altering. Streaming is altering with kids, and audiences of all ages, with the ability to select what they’re in a position to see. However I’m afraid of algorithms bringing us all the way down to the bottom widespread denominator.
DON HALL As a child, I didn’t essentially differentiate. I beloved animation and I beloved stay motion and it was all storytelling. Why I feel I gravitated towards animation was actually drawing. It’s what I like to do. I do know, we make CG movies, too. But it surely all begins with a drawing from any individual’s creativeness, and that one drawing can change the form of a film.
Henry, you’ve stated that you just requested a PG- 13 ranking. Why did you need that ranking for the story that you just needed to inform?
HENRY SELICK After we had been first establishing Wendell & Wild with Netflix, [my fellow screenwriter] Jordan [Peele] and I each needed the liberty that we felt a PG-13 ranking may give us. We weren’t essentially going out of our method to get that. However the ranking system may be very unusual. My earlier movie, Coraline, was really far more intense and scary, nevertheless it was PG. This obtained a PG-13. However there’s an ulterior motive, a egocentric motive in that. Youngsters need to see issues that the older ones are seeing — a 10-year-old needs to see PG-13. There’s nothing in there that’s actually going to be dangerous for youths as younger as 8 — and even some 7-year-olds. So it was about getting the liberty to push boundaries, after which as a result of I feel extra younger individuals will need to see it they usually’ll get extra out of it.
Might you elaborate on the themes that you just did discover in Wendell?
SELICK The themes are actually nothing utterly model new, however I feel [what is, is] how far we took themes of guilt, a couple of younger little one carrying horrible guilt, feeling liable for the demise of their mother and father. We see a number of animated movies with orphans or the lack of one mother or father, and I needed to go additional than that. How dangerous would it not be once you lose your mother and father and you’re feeling you’re completely liable for it? It’s a coming-of-age story with a number of extra-extraordinary components.
Don, do you need to elaborate on a few of the themes that you just discover in Unusual World?
HALL It began with wanting to inform a narrative that handled mankind’s relationship with the planet. After which, serious about it by way of “What did I inherit from my father? What are my children going to inherit from me?” After which, we constructed it into the story of three generations — a grandfather, a father and a son — utilizing a number of my very own story, rising up in Iowa, and coaching to be a farmer. And in some unspecified time in the future, breaking away from that and deciding to forge my very own path and doing what I like to do, which is drawing and telling tales and animation.
Domee, you additionally introduced a number of private experiences to your film.
SHI It’s just like Don’s. I actually simply love animation. And drawing is an emotional and inventive outlet for no matter points or crap I’m coping with. I had simply completed Bao, which is a brief movie about this mom and this dumpling boy. And I spotted I nonetheless had a number of mom points to kind out, an entire function movie’s value of stuff. And it was actually simply my manner of processing a brilliant awkward time in all our lives that we don’t need to revisit as a result of it was so uncomfortable and cringey-like — puberty, adolescence, once you get up and also you understand, “Oh my gosh, what is occurring to my physique?” It’s nonetheless weirdly thought-about taboo, however once we had been making it, we had been simply nervous about how can we make this the funniest, most emotional, most impactful story ever, not realizing that it was such a giant deal that we had been displaying [sanitary] pads on the large display screen.
Are there sure subjects studios don’t need to handle in motion pictures once you’re pitching tales?
CRAWFORD Puss in Boots was an fascinating story to seek out with the studio, as a result of there’s an enormous Shrek universe that we’re persevering with into the subsequent chapter. And so there are expectations of comedy, of enjoyable fairy-tale characters with distinctive spins on them. However one thing that we had been taking over on this subsequent chapter of Puss is that he’s burned by means of eight of his 9 lives, and he’s on his final life. And inherently, this turned a narrative about demise, embracing mortality. And that was one thing fascinating to seek out with the studio, as a result of there’s a cautiousness of going, “OK, how darkish is that this? Not only for our household viewers, however there are specific expectations constructed into the subsequent Puss in Boots.” However we went darker with this as a way to basically really feel the sunshine, really feel the enjoyment on the finish of it. It’s all in the way you inform the story. What the tone is.
DEL TORO It’s humorous, as a result of after I was at DreamWorks, [founder] Jeffrey [Katzenberg] used to name me the harbinger of demise. After we had been growing our model of Puss 2, that was additionally the theme. Perhaps it’s one thing I’m terribly concerned with as a result of I’m Mexican, as a result of it’s additionally the thought of Pinocchio. Can we make it about life and demise? This yr, it’s very telling that every one the animated motion pictures are involved with demise. And likewise fathers, sons, daughters, moms. Actually, two themes unifying all our motion pictures. These will not be the standard animated motion pictures. And I feel that’s a really wholesome motion in the fitting route — not nearly skateboarding and escaping dinosaurs. And I feel it’s very symptomatic of our need to serve childhood. A toddler 20 years in the past was the proverbial Amblin child. Now [she] is Greta Thunberg. These are children who’re extremely complicated, with extremely complicated moments of their lives. I discover it actually heartening and delightful that every one our motion pictures have these items in widespread.
TWOMEY With My Father’s Dragon, we had been nervous for some time as a result of concern and management are big themes, and we now have a protagonist who loves individuals and desires to guard them. What does having a mother or father who lifts the masks for a second and also you see actual concern and actual anguish in that face, what does that do to an adolescent? However I sat behind a 4-year-old within the cinema whose mother, anytime it obtained just a little intense, stored leaning into her, to attempt to catch issues in a manner which may make it a bit simpler. However [the girl] pushed her mother’s cheek out of the best way as a result of she simply didn’t need to be managed. Youngsters don’t forgive you in case you attempt to discuss all the way down to them, they actually don’t. It’s a must to take them with the seriousness and the respect that they deserve, and a narrative is meant to assist.
DEL TORO I’ve heard firms verbalize it precisely like this: “Truly, we don’t make motion pictures for youths. We make them for the mother and father to really feel protected.” Which means they make them for helicoptering mother and father who must really feel that this home has been childproofed.
CRAWFORD That’s level. There’s battle in tales for a cause. As human beings, we’re attempting to know the world, younger and outdated, and the way we slot in. And I feel the most effective case is that possibly there are some uncomfortable issues, [but they are] nonetheless acceptable issues for youths. I’ve three children. Using residence within the automobile from the movie show, your child goes, “Hey, I need to perceive this. So that you’re not going to be round without end, Dad?” You go, “Yeah, that’s what makes life particular.” And these motion pictures develop into alternatives to broaden and open their worldview.
Henry, do you see issues altering? Do you assume the films that we’re speaking about right this moment wouldn’t have been made 5 years in the past?
SELICK I agree they might not have been made 5 years in the past. It’s onerous for me to know precisely how the powers that be are literally — if not embracing, they’re permitting extra experimentation to happen. The truth that Domee obtained to make her movie at Pixar, it’s type of a miracle. It wouldn’t have occurred if [former chief creative officer] John Lasseter was nonetheless there. Youngsters have to be scared, they have to be taught to then cope with that. They shouldn’t be overprotected. We’ve obtained an entire technology of youngsters who can’t hearken to stand-up comics as a result of they are often harm, they are often triggered. They’ve been overprotected. That technology goes to have an extended, onerous journey interacting with the actual world. As a result of everybody thinks within the Western world that animation is for youths, we could be those who assist these children and provides them the nourishment they really want — if we discover a manner, you understand, of subversively mixing it in with the conventional enjoyable and shininess and colours that folks count on from animation. I care probably the most in regards to the child viewers. I don’t actually care anymore if adults love animation. I can’t make predictions. I’d wish to assume extra probabilities will probably be taken. However look how lengthy it took for Guillermo to discover a residence for a extra trustworthy, extra intriguing model of Pinocchio.
DEL TORO The pure state of a film is to not get made. However I’m at peace that it took about 15 years. And everyone stated no besides Netflix. All people else stated no. They usually stored saying, “Oh, Guillermo, it’s in regards to the rise of Mussolini, it’s about life and demise. Is it for youths?” I stated, “No, however children can watch it if their mother and father discuss to them.” And that was my normal place. I need to say, after I see your motion pictures, I’m very moved by what you guys are doing. You may really feel the significance of the films, and it’s very shifting.
SHI Perhaps I’m too optimistic, however I really feel a shift within the viewers’s urge for food as effectively. I really feel like with streaming and the web, animation is slowly beginning to be handled extra like a medium and never only a style for youths. Anime is extra standard than ever. I bear in mind after I was in class, I needed to search out that DVD retailer to purchase the pirated newest episodes of my favourite anime, however now it’s so available.
HALL Previously few years, I feel there’s been a gradual urge for food for extra meat on the bone by way of story and storytelling, once we’re speaking about that sturdy thematic, that’s going to provoke the story and likewise elicit these conversations that Joel was speaking about.
Domee, to return to one thing that Henry stated: You had been nodding when he recommended that your film in all probability wouldn’t have been made at Pixar a number of years in the past. How would you describe the present tradition at Pixar and what enabled you to have the ability to inform the story at the moment?
SHI I really feel fortunate that I’ve principally labored with [Pixar chief creative officer] Pete Docter. He was the manager producer for Bao. He was my first mentor on Inside Out again after I was a storyboard artist, and we labored actually carefully collectively growing Turning Purple, and he’s simply so open to listening to your story and your tackle the model and the themes that you just need to discover, so long as it comes from a private place that’s necessary to you. And I actually needed to do one thing totally different with Turning Purple, from the opening scene breaking the fourth wall, with our fundamental character speaking on to the digital camera. I needed to actually lean into my love for ’90s anime and for trendy live-action motion pictures like [those of] Edgar Wright and Wes Anderson, actually pushing the colours and the digital camera and the modifying, to only actually make this film really feel totally different. Pete jogged my memory that model is nice, pushing the boundaries is nice, however to all the time take into consideration how that helps help telling your character’s story. That helped meld the anime model so efficiently with Western CG animation in our film, it felt like the proper method to inform this story about this Chinese language Canadian lady who’s type of caught between two worlds.
Let’s discuss in regards to the visible model of a few of the different movies.
CRAWFORD On Puss in Boots, one of many ideas that was actually pushed by our manufacturing designer, Nate Wragg, was: What if it seemed like you’re in a fairy-tale portray? What if it was illustrative? There was a number of trial and error looking for not solely our imaginative and prescient, but additionally we had expectations once more of what Puss in Boots ought to seem like from the primary film. We did have some license to replace it. We determined that every part may very well be this sort of painterly model.
SELICK With Coraline, I needed to depart the seams in. And other people had been simply too nervous about it. But it surely’s years later, the thought was merely: Why use stop-motion animation if individuals can’t even inform? In the event that they assume it’s CG, it’s not going to be nearly as good as a CG movie. So what can we do? It has to really feel the contact of the animator who wrestled the puppet to life, and I need to present that, depart seams in, depart most errors in. We name them allure — until they’re so egregious we do have to repair it, or if a narrative level isn’t made. After which constructing an entire world round that, it was very difficult as a result of it’s very Picasso-esque. And I don’t assume an entire function may seem like that. It will be onerous on of us. So we used it in a restricted manner, after which discovered a method to make that extra dimensional.
DEL TORO There are 4 selections that had been key visually on the model of Pinocchio. I stated, “If we go right into a world the place each constructing is crooked and stylized, then Pinocchio will not be an anomaly — he’s simply enterprise as ordinary.” I stated, “We have now to painting Italy. I need images to make each determination.” And principally I approached it like a live-action film in that sense. That was the primary determination. The second determination was to maintain the color-coding actually inflexible. The blue is just for these components which might be magical or shaping Pinocchio. Purple was just for struggle and destruction. After which we determined we’d make the remainder of the world seasonal. The opposite factor, and this was a double determination, was, “Let’s make the staging as if we had been staging real-world actors.” I just like the digital camera to maneuver to accommodate the characters. And that enables us to go for a extremely quiet second. One of many issues I don’t like in animation is how busy it may get, and the way frantic, and we went for quiet moments, moments wherein the characters are barely shifting, and you’ve got little, nearly micro gestures. However stylistically, we additionally stated we’re not going to be afraid of extensive pictures, we’re not going to be afraid of shifting the digital camera.
Nora, My Father’s Dragon has a really totally different method and visible model. How would you describe your work?
TWOMEY We took inspiration from the e-book [by Ruth Stiles Gannett], but additionally from kids’s drawings. I used to be actually not wanting to inform this story from the attitude of any individual speaking all the way down to a baby. And so we requested the youngsters in our lives — I requested my two boys — to attract the characters from the e-book. They usually did issues that I simply didn’t count on. For instance, there’s a tiger that’s type of scary. And they might draw an enormous head for the tiger as a result of the pinnacle is probably the most dangerous-looking half. They actually obtained tied up in knots drawing crocodiles, and so we now have a knot of crocodiles within the movie. Lots of my analysis was executed by experimenting by myself kids. And so the world of My Father’s Dragon is each the ridiculous sense of a kid’s perspective of what’s harmful and what’s not. We additionally labored actually onerous to get a giant sense of scale and gravity to the movie, in order that Elmer and Boris, the 2 fundamental characters, felt like small children in a giant, massive world, and a world that they’d no management over.
And Don, for Unusual World, I do know you’ve stated that one of many inspirations was Jules Verne’s Journey to the Heart of the Earth. Would you describe the look?
HALL Yeah, I’m going to do some spoiling right here. The place the Journey to the Heart of the Earth factor comes into play is that the characters in our story go down into their world and uncover a world that’s utterly alive. The large discovery, two-thirds or three-quarters into the film, is that they’re really residing on the again of a residing factor. Their discovery is, “Holy crap, we stay on a continent-sized creature. And what we’re doing is harming a creature.” Now, due to the spoiler, we didn’t really need the viewers to determine that out, so it’s fairly disguised. There have been two causes for it. One, the spoiler of all of it. After which the opposite a part of it was simply letting our artists run wild. We are able to take a look at microscopic imagery of lungs. Bronchial cilia seem like grassland, there’s an entire bunch of stuff you can draw upon. So take a look at it, analysis it, throw it away, after which provide you with your model of it — and so it was actually, actually enjoyable. We could have began with an precise a part of the physique after which turned our artists unfastened and allow them to go together with it. I had some shade restrictions as effectively, simply by way of throwing individuals off the scent just a little bit. Inexperienced was form of our major shade up high, so we restricted using inexperienced, restricted earth tones. It compelled everyone on our manufacturing design group to provide you with actually fascinating, bizarre new shade schemes.
Do your studios anticipate that there’s going to be a resurgence in stereoscopic 3D, particularly with Avatar: The Approach of Water popping out later this yr?
HALL I don’t know. I simply know that [at Disney] we now have a 3D division and we do it.
SELICK [When 3D first came out], the glasses had been actually darkish. The projectors weren’t vibrant sufficient. There are such a lot of movies the place the 3D was added on afterward and was actually dangerous, and as 3D was beginning, it obtained two black eyes — one from the expertise of feeling such as you’re in a darkish cave, after which how a lot dangerous 3D there was. So I don’t know if it’ll ever come again. Actually not at Netflix. They had been promoting 3D TVs a number of years in the past, however nobody’s shopping for them now. However I really like nice 3D. Nothing appears to be like higher. Nothing appears to be like higher than stop-motion in 3D as a result of it truly is dimensional. I like it like loopy, however I’ve simply needed to flip my again on it.
TWOMEY It’s simply fascinating the best way it comes again after which it fades away. After which it comes again once more after which fades away once more. It’s spectacular when it really works effectively.
SHI It’s a software. It’s a shade in your palette. And also you don’t have to make use of each single shade to color your movie. You may select which instruments to make use of as a way to inform probably the most immersive and efficient story. And possibly for you, Don, as a result of your film is an action-adventure, it begs for 3D to place you in there. While you’re flying by means of the area, that appears like the proper use for 3D. However for a film like mine, for the primary half, I actually was impressed by slice-of-life motion pictures. The best way to make it extra immersive was by means of shade, by means of digital camera, versus utilizing stereoscopic 3D.
SELICK Too many CG-animated movies live fairly shut to one another of their feel and appear. There have been moments like Pete Docter in Inside Out, these characters are remarkably cartoony by way of their head dimension, and that in itself is extremely daring. There hadn’t been something like that. Perhaps by no means at Pixar. And it labored. Folks had been credibly entertained, they didn’t write them off as cartoons. I believed in them. I simply assume we will achieve this way more. It’s not even taking an opportunity, so long as beneath it you consider within the characters and you’ve got empathy for them and share their emotional journeys. They’ll nearly seem like something.
TWOMEY It’s superb once you get 50 animators to all purchase in to the best way a selected character strikes, and their explicit gestures, and then you definately get the empathy of fifty individuals ensuring that there’s a throughline in a personality’s efficiency. And in case you’re fortunate, you get an unimaginable voice efficiency. And as Henry says, the little errors and issues like that, that permits you to know that we’re flawed. There’s one thing actually lovely in that. There’s any individual behind that, who makes a compassionate determination about physics and weight and character, and it’s a loving determination.
SHI So true. After we constructed our units, we made positive not one wall or beam within the temple or the home was an ideal line. We needed to go in there and add nicks and dents. And even how we shaded the world. We had been impressed by stop-motion. We studied how shade can pool in corners and totally different areas of different surfaces in order that the shading was type of imperfect. It’s subliminal, however tells the viewers that it’s made by an individual. It additionally helps inform the story, as a result of for Turning Purple, it’s a narrative a couple of lady who’s embracing her imperfect messiness.
HALL It’s nearly like you must be very intentional with the imperfections. For Unusual World, even within the storyboarding, that occurred. There’s a really quiet second, between the grandfather and father having a beer, and the storyboard artist aboard that scene, Tyre Jones, had the grandfather, simply in a second of awkward silence, hock a loogie over the facet of their ship. It wasn’t there to get amusing. It was not there for something apart from to convey the truth of a second. All people beloved that second, as a result of it was so sudden and actual.
Yet one more query: What are you seeing this yr by way of range, within the workforce and inventive management in addition to the tales themselves?
TWOMEY On My Father’s Dragon, I made a reasonably aware determination. I come from a spot the place after I was in school, I used to be one in every of three girls in my course, and I feel I’m the one a type of three who’s nonetheless working. It’s altering, and now once you stroll into a school room, the bulk are feminine. However the place the inequality nonetheless is, is that you’ve heads of departments, positions of energy and management. It’s a must to work tougher to make it possible for these roles are crammed by individuals who deserve them as a lot as anyone else, however who may not put themselves ahead or may not have historically been in that position, or may not have the help system. And in case you rent a girl or a nonbinary individual in a task like that, then they’ll in all probability pull any individual else in who’s not historically been in that position, so it broadens it out.
CRAWFORD At DreamWorks, there’s a number of range by way of gender and ethnicity by way of the filmmakers. However one thing that’s actually cool that DreamWorks has been doing is that additionally they have an inner-city outreach program. There are individuals on the market who may very well be amazingly gifted, however who do not know it is a profession, it is a job: You may inform tales for a residing. I feel there’s lots we now have the chance to do as filmmakers for mentioning the subsequent technology, discovering these storytellers.
HALL While you begin a movie and also you’re making a world like Unusual World, it’s a fantasy world. I can set the principles for that world. And I need it to replicate the actual world by way of range and inclusion, as a result of I feel there’s energy in individuals seeing themselves onscreen. And so it begins, day one.
SHI I really feel the world’s simply shrunk due to the web and entry to superb international motion pictures and films that aren’t in English. And we’re step by step seeing a redefinition of what a common story appears to be like like, and who will get to inform them. It requires funding from the studios to help these storytellers, and it additionally requires [those of] us who’re on this very privileged place to be making motion pictures to carry the door open for the subsequent technology, as a result of it may very simply regress. Like [when] The Pleasure Luck Membership got here out within the ’90s, I used to be like, “Oh, man, that is it for Asian Individuals.” After which it type of fizzled away and we didn’t actually have one other film till Loopy Wealthy Asians, [25 years] later. It may all the time go backward, which is one thing that I needed to hold reminding myself, and so I really feel prefer it takes an entire village to make it possible for this isn’t a blip or a fad, that it’s an ongoing change.
SELICK I feel we, in animation, on common, are doing manner higher than the remainder of the trade. I used to be visiting Disney right this moment, simply to speak about my film, and there’s an unimaginable range of animators and skills and executives. Netflix has had, from the get-go, some very highly effective girls in command of animation. However I’m just a little extra nervous; it’s not a gradual factor, as a result of in the long run, it must be primarily based on expertise, individuals have to have the ability to do the job, but when they present promise, that expertise could be developed. I’m just a little extra nervous in regards to the audiences on the market. Typically, when there’s pushback on casting decisions, for The Lord of the Rings or the superhero motion pictures, it drives me nuts. Neil Gaiman obtained pushback for casting decisions for Sandman. And his response was, “Have you ever learn the fucking comics from 25 years in the past? This individual is nonbinary.” So I feel we will educate [audiences] by telling the very best tales with numerous characters, utilizing numerous crews, they usually’ll recover from their silly hang-ups and simply be entertained and moved.
DEL TORO We have now to maintain it alive by way of illustration. The story, that’s one dialog. And the opposite one is forged and crew. We inform the animators, “You’re our forged, you’re our actors,” and we credited them within the credit, proper after the voice forged, similar dimension. And I stated, “I’ll defend you from studio notes, there will probably be no studio notes, there will probably be no screenings, there will probably be no bullshit.” We had about 357 staff. Forty-five p.c had been girls. We took a number of animators which have by no means been leads, they had been apprentices or doing smaller characters, and we supplied them with a platform to develop. And I do assume that is nearly a primary obligation of filmmakers to pursue these items. It’s crucial to take action.
Interview edited for size and readability.
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