WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:01.300 --> 00:00:04.810 Here’s a new short and cute animation called Banana Cat. 00:00:04.810 --> 00:00:07.470 The song is catchy, be careful. 00:00:07.470 --> 00:00:09.950 I’ve linked it below so you can watch it. 00:00:09.950 --> 00:00:12.870 The creation of the Banana Cat animation is straightforward. 00:00:12.870 --> 00:00:15.990 Brianne Drouhard invented the character in 2005. 00:00:15.990 --> 00:00:20.249 Somehow it ended up being the focus of this video more than ten years later. 00:00:20.249 --> 00:00:22.090 Parry Gripp did the song. 00:00:22.090 --> 00:00:24.640 Brianne created an animatic for the video. 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:29.140 An animatic is basically a rough animation, since there is a lot more movement than a 00:00:29.140 --> 00:00:31.890 storyboard, which tends to be still images. 00:00:31.890 --> 00:00:35.160 The final animation is by SmallBu studio. 00:00:35.160 --> 00:00:39.129 And I know I’m pronouncing that last name right because the logo is a ghost. 00:00:39.129 --> 00:00:40.129 Haha! 00:00:40.129 --> 00:00:41.129 I’m so smart. 00:00:41.129 --> 00:00:45.210 After the animation was finished Parry Gripp made a final version of the song. 00:00:45.210 --> 00:00:48.379 Combine the two, upload to the internet, done. 00:00:48.379 --> 00:00:54.320 The animation style is simple: textured brown lines with solid fill colors and no shading. 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:59.059 There are occasionally smooth lines, like on this mountain and the text here. 00:00:59.059 --> 00:01:03.989 Changing the line style is as easy as picking a new brush or pencil in Toon Boom, so I’m 00:01:03.989 --> 00:01:06.900 guessing that’s the program for the final animation. 00:01:06.900 --> 00:01:08.190 The animatic is Toon Boom. 00:01:08.190 --> 00:01:09.190 It’s funny how the only two detailed backgrounds are almost the same in the final as they are 00:01:09.190 --> 00:01:10.190 in the animatic. 00:01:10.190 --> 00:01:11.190 Almost. 00:01:11.190 --> 00:01:14.680 Banana Cat is a good chance to see what changes between an animatic and a final animation, 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:18.400 especially in a case where the artists doing the final animation are different than the 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:21.050 ones doing a rough cut. 00:01:21.050 --> 00:01:25.930 While the general sense of timing and what is happening on screen are the same, SmallBu 00:01:25.930 --> 00:01:30.320 added a lot more personality to Banana Cat’s movements. 00:01:30.320 --> 00:01:34.210 For example, the running animation at the beginning: not only is Banana Cat more floppy 00:01:34.210 --> 00:01:41.100 and bouncy in general, we get this squishy roll leading into the run. 00:01:41.100 --> 00:01:45.990 When Banana Cat pushes the old banana into the volcano, in the animatic that’s it. 00:01:45.990 --> 00:01:51.230 But in the final version the animators added a semi-crazed stare at the audience afterwards. 00:01:51.230 --> 00:01:56.820 This is actually a clever way to make something happen on screen, because without that Banana 00:01:56.820 --> 00:01:59.680 Cat is sitting still for too long looking at nothing. 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:03.740 Oh, and they also added these flies buzzing around brown banana. 00:02:03.740 --> 00:02:06.020 There are lots of little additions like that. 00:02:06.020 --> 00:02:09.550 The sorts of things you’ll get depend on who is doing the final animation - whether 00:02:09.550 --> 00:02:15.400 they feel like the cartoon needs more cute, more silliness, more weird, more creepy. 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:19.950 One thing to pay attention to as far as the animatic goes is that when a scene is really 00:02:19.950 --> 00:02:24.760 important, the person doing the rough animation draws a lot of key poses. 00:02:24.760 --> 00:02:27.160 The run cycle isn’t fleshed out at all. 00:02:27.160 --> 00:02:31.250 But the parts at the end with the approaching cat, and the merge into the milkshake, those 00:02:31.250 --> 00:02:33.450 scenes are very detailed. 00:02:33.450 --> 00:02:38.080 Especially this part here, this is more like an animator drawing key poses so a different 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:42.180 animator can come in and draw the pictures in between to bring the thing to life. 00:02:42.180 --> 00:02:48.550 Because of that, when you compare these scenes there isn’t much change in the movement. 00:02:48.550 --> 00:02:52.960 SmallBu added a little bounce to the left on the approach, but other than that the final 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:55.760 animation follows the script closely. 00:02:55.760 --> 00:03:00.490 So when one animator is giving another an animatic to work off of, it’s the rough 00:03:00.490 --> 00:03:05.459 draft animator’s job to make sure the most important scenes are very clear. 00:03:05.459 --> 00:03:13.459 Yet it’s also important to leave room for the final animators to make improvements. 00:03:13.459 --> 00:03:17.960 And for the final animators, they need to follow the script, but they also need to recognize 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:19.069 where things can be improved. 00:03:19.069 --> 00:03:20.069 That’s all for today. 00:03:20.069 --> 00:03:24.620 I hope this gave you a little insight on how different animators work together to create 00:03:24.620 --> 00:03:54.560 a final product.