WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.130 --> 00:00:08.260 You want to hear about a Five Nights At Freddie’s fan animation? 00:00:08.260 --> 00:00:10.050 Fffffine. 00:00:10.050 --> 00:00:15.350 Actually I’m going to use this as an excuse to talk about Harvey Rothman’s animations. 00:00:15.350 --> 00:00:20.189 So while technically the feature is Foxy Gets Hooked, I’d like to also direct your attention 00:00:20.189 --> 00:00:23.420 to this collection of short clips. 00:00:23.420 --> 00:00:26.970 Aaand Go! 00:00:26.970 --> 00:00:33.340 I completely sympathize with people who don’t like the same animation subjects that I like, 00:00:33.340 --> 00:00:37.050 because Foxy Gets Hooked is just painful for me to watch. 00:00:37.050 --> 00:00:42.080 Not really like being stabbed, but more like being beat repeatedly with a rubber mallet. 00:00:42.080 --> 00:00:46.640 So now I know how you feel about fan animations related to the show you hate. 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:50.780 Hence why I included these other animations by Harvey Rothman, because they are a great 00:00:50.780 --> 00:00:55.490 summary of the quality, style, and techniques in his repertoire. 00:00:55.490 --> 00:00:59.280 Woo, let’s start with animation techniques because that’s the good part. 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:02.520 First off: camera lenses. 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:04.649 Notice how the camera moves in this shot. 00:01:04.649 --> 00:01:18.189 It has a fish-eye feel to it, which in cinematography you can achieve by changing which lens is 00:01:18.189 --> 00:01:19.650 on your video camera. 00:01:19.650 --> 00:01:25.069 In animation, you can apply distortion effects to your 2D animation layers, or you can build 00:01:25.069 --> 00:01:29.270 a 3D model and fiddle with the camera that displays your 3D model. 00:01:29.270 --> 00:01:34.220 The best place to see this in action is here. 00:01:34.220 --> 00:01:36.490 This is a single background painting. 00:01:36.490 --> 00:01:44.060 It revolves like a carousel, like it’s stretched over a big cheese wheel that is rotating. 00:01:44.060 --> 00:01:50.400 While I suspect a select few of the Foxy Gets Hooked backgrounds are 2D paintings placed 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:56.319 on 3D objects, it’s quite possible Rothman achieved this rotating effect with some kind 00:01:56.319 --> 00:01:58.590 of After Effects-esque manipulating. 00:01:58.590 --> 00:02:07.570 There’s always multiple ways to do the same thing. 00:02:07.570 --> 00:02:11.970 You can see him practice recreating the look and feel of an anamorphic camera lens in this 00:02:11.970 --> 00:02:14.240 few second long animation. 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:18.360 As for the other two shorts, they showcase Rothman’s ability to bring back the feel 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:19.780 of a classic cartoon. 00:02:19.780 --> 00:02:23.330 Did you watch black and white cartoons on VHS as a kid? 00:02:23.330 --> 00:02:24.330 I did. 00:02:24.330 --> 00:02:26.560 He captures it so perfectly. 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:30.410 What I appreciate about the shorts is their unique style and consistency. 00:02:30.410 --> 00:02:31.410 Yep. 00:02:31.410 --> 00:02:35.260 My schtick about Foxy Gets Hooked isn’t really that it’s about Five Nights At Freddie’s: 00:02:35.260 --> 00:02:36.970 it’s consistency. 00:02:36.970 --> 00:02:41.670 Halfway through the style breaks to thicker outlines, single-tone coloring, and no camera 00:02:41.670 --> 00:02:42.670 movement. 00:02:42.670 --> 00:02:45.500 It seems to me like Rothman just needed to finish these shots. 00:02:45.500 --> 00:02:49.310 The look and feel is completely different from the beginning of the animation. 00:02:49.310 --> 00:02:52.590 And there are shots interspersed that look like they might’ve been done before he got 00:02:52.590 --> 00:02:55.840 sick of working on the thing, so they are more polished. 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:59.250 It just feels like the toon disintegrates as I watch it. 00:02:59.250 --> 00:03:04.180 The story dissolves into pointless slapstick humor at the same time the art loses its focus 00:03:04.180 --> 00:03:06.010 and the soundscape disappears. 00:03:06.010 --> 00:03:10.220 There’s well-placed music here and there in the beginning, but during the comedy section 00:03:10.220 --> 00:03:11.480 it’s pure sound effects. 00:03:11.480 --> 00:03:15.380 I had to make sure I wasn’t crazy and go check cartoons like Tom and Jerry and Pink 00:03:15.380 --> 00:03:18.320 Panther to see if they had music during action sequences. 00:03:18.320 --> 00:03:23.110 Of course they did! 00:03:23.110 --> 00:03:28.970 The funny part about all this is I’m completely missing the point. 00:03:28.970 --> 00:03:35.640 The reason this happens to the animation is because Harvey Rothman spent so long making 00:03:35.640 --> 00:03:40.240 it that he reached a stage where he decided to just have fun with it. 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:44.380 He tossed out the storyboards and made everything up as he went. 00:03:44.380 --> 00:03:48.740 The voice actors improvised a lot of their lines without scripts. 00:03:48.740 --> 00:03:55.940 So the result is a cartoon that starts out with a story and then just ends silly. 00:03:55.940 --> 00:03:57.710 Haha. 00:03:57.710 --> 00:04:04.650 Anyway, I really love the animation styles on his channel, so here’s hoping for more!