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And now it’s time for an animation I’ve
wanted to talk about since the first episode

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of Scribble Kibble: Freak Of The Week.

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Click the link below to watch this animated
music video before I start talking about it.

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I love the hair.

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Whoosh!

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Whoosh!

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This animation has one heck of a backstory.

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Spanish artist Juanjo Guarnido, whose work
you may recognize from Blacksad and Disney,

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wanted to animate his own smaller project.

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He made some album art for the Swedish rock
band Freak Kitchen, started talking about

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raising money to do a music video, and pinned
French studio Fortiche Production as the ones

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capable of making it.

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They raised $142,000 on Kickstarter, enough
money plus extra to pay a team of about 35

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artists.

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That may seem like a lot of money to you,
but it’s cheap for this quality 2D animation.

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Even if you compare with music videos in general,
budgets for those are $200,000 on average.

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The great thing about Freak Of The Week is
it has everything: 2D, 3D, motion capture,

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special effects, and live action.

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The live action clips are public domain archive
footage.

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The thing that strikes me the most about this
whole animation is how freakishly accurate

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the characters stay, regardless of what the
camera is doing.

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This is one of my favorite shots.

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It takes forever to draw each picture to give
that 3D effect, but if you know the secret

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behind the video, keeping the characters accurate
isn’t magic.

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They’re drawn on top of 3D models.

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The animators draw on top of rough 3D animation
to create what you see.

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The process of “tracing” (there’s more
to it than tracing) is called rotoscoping.

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Most of the time if an animator is rotoscoping,
they draw on top of real people.

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The problem with this is it makes the characters
not animated enough.

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In animation you often exaggerate motions,
otherwise it looks fake.

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This is why Juanjo decided to go with 3D animation
as a base instead of live actors, because

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you can make 3D models move in inhuman ways.

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So the team had to animate Freak Of The Week
twice: once in 3D and once in 2D.

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Rotoscoping the 3D animation isn’t as simple
as tracing.

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You’ll notice that the animators have to
add all of the details and fix poses.

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These models are bald, so all of the imagination
about the hair and how it should move is up

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to the 2D animators.

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With this rough style of outline, each of
the drawings has to be colored by hand, so

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some of the artists are colorists.

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Their only job is coloring finished drawings.

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When the animation is done you don’t want
to lose the rough outline, since that’s

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this style’s particular charm, so the artists
doing the lighting and compositing have to

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be careful not to put so many effects down
that the lines are hidden.

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The end result is a 2D animation on top of
a 3D setting.

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Even the fretting and drum playing are accurate.

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The characters aren’t strumming random chords.

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If this is your first time seeing this animation,
were you startled at the end by how much alike

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these guys and the cartoon characters look?

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I remember thinking, “Oh my gosh!”

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Haha.

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That’s all for this animation freak, every
week, right here on Scribble Kibble.

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Sssssss.