WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.070 --> 00:00:04.550 Y’know, I’m not sure I’ve shown how crazy you can make an animation. 00:00:04.550 --> 00:00:09.660 We’ve seen a lot of great art, realistic movements, creative worlds, but I don’t 00:00:09.660 --> 00:00:12.730 think we’ve taken the rules and thrown them out the window. 00:00:12.730 --> 00:00:15.050 You really can do whatever you want. 00:00:15.050 --> 00:00:21.449 So on that note, here is A Prank Time by Jaime R. Link below. 00:00:21.449 --> 00:00:27.380 Haha, did you want me to warn you it was weird? 00:00:27.380 --> 00:00:28.380 Too bad! 00:00:28.380 --> 00:00:31.891 If you want an example of how severely you can deform your characters, this is it. 00:00:31.891 --> 00:00:37.350 Sure, a human peeking around a corner like this would move a certain way to get off screen, 00:00:37.350 --> 00:00:38.790 but why be realistic? 00:00:38.790 --> 00:00:40.410 Let’s just liquify the face. 00:00:40.410 --> 00:00:41.410 It’s a cartoon. 00:00:41.410 --> 00:00:44.150 It doesn’t have to move the way people expect. 00:00:44.150 --> 00:00:48.430 Sometimes we get so caught up in making the characters have weight and be believable that 00:00:48.430 --> 00:00:49.590 we forget that. 00:00:49.590 --> 00:00:54.570 Anyway, there isn’t a term for the type of liquid body mechanics Jaime is known for. 00:00:54.570 --> 00:00:59.750 It’s not smear frames, because a smear frame helps transition between one pose to the next, 00:00:59.750 --> 00:01:03.359 like this door. 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:07.990 A Prank Time has some pushed expressions, which is the animation industry’s term for 00:01:07.990 --> 00:01:10.110 highly exaggerated poses. 00:01:10.110 --> 00:01:11.110 But this? 00:01:11.110 --> 00:01:13.310 There isn’t a word for this. 00:01:13.310 --> 00:01:15.400 It’s just creativity. 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:20.659 It is interesting that despite how insanely deformed the man’s anatomy becomes, it still 00:01:20.659 --> 00:01:21.659 makes sense. 00:01:21.659 --> 00:01:28.799 If I slow down the huge liquid rope body, you still see the feet, legs, this is a hand, 00:01:28.799 --> 00:01:35.840 here comes the head and tongue, and the other hand at the end. 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:40.820 This is a human body following motion principles of a liquid. 00:01:40.820 --> 00:01:43.280 Even this part - it’s still the pieces of a human head. 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:46.520 A human head wrapped around a ring. 00:01:46.520 --> 00:01:50.210 What if we took the character and squeezed it through a tiny knot of itself? 00:01:50.210 --> 00:01:54.979 Then you’d get this. 00:01:54.979 --> 00:01:59.920 If you are wondering why this animation is so smooth, it is because there are no shortcuts. 00:01:59.920 --> 00:02:05.049 On a low budget animation, animators draw around 12 images per second. 00:02:05.049 --> 00:02:09.690 A Prank Time is always 24 images per second when something moves. 00:02:09.690 --> 00:02:17.800 Couple that with a good grasp of the principles of motion, and the animation comes out super 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:18.800 smooth. 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:23.420 Besides the bizarre body transformations, the other thing I appreciate about Jaime’s 00:02:23.420 --> 00:02:26.820 animations are these severely distorted perspectives. 00:02:26.820 --> 00:02:30.160 This clip out of his Money Maker animation demonstrates what I mean. 00:02:30.160 --> 00:02:35.111 The horizon is here, but instead of straight perspective lines like the real world, this 00:02:35.111 --> 00:02:37.300 background is modeled more like this. 00:02:37.300 --> 00:02:40.750 It’s like putting a fisheye lens on a camera. 00:02:40.750 --> 00:02:45.060 In A Prank Time, you may have noticed a similar distortion on the staircase. 00:02:45.060 --> 00:02:50.120 This is a straight staircase, but when it pans up from the side here, it’s curved. 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:53.910 Drawing the background this way creates the trippy illusion that we go from looking down 00:02:53.910 --> 00:02:58.530 the stairs to looking up the stairs, even though it’s a flat piece of art. 00:02:58.530 --> 00:03:00.070 Same thing here with the window rush. 00:03:00.070 --> 00:03:04.740 The straight wall curves in to meet us, honing in to an almost V shape. 00:03:04.740 --> 00:03:07.620 It makes you feel like you’re being fired out the window. 00:03:07.620 --> 00:03:14.420 If the wall stayed flat, the animation wouldn’t have the same impact. 00:03:14.420 --> 00:03:19.950 The moral of the story is you can really push animation to do lots of crazy things if you 00:03:19.950 --> 00:03:41.190 want to.