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GinjaNinja, or Rea’s channel is a gateway
into lots of cool cartoons, so you better

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be prepared to get sucked into something if
you start watching her animations.

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Warrior Cats, Steven Universe, Miraculous
Ladybug, My Little Pony, Pokemon, Undertale

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- it’s all there!

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Considering all of the fandoms Rea has touched,
it’s not surprising that I heard about Amino

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from her first.

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Amino is a phone app for fans of just about
anything, and there’s a Multi Animator Project

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group, which you may like if you’re looking
for a place to get involved in animation MAPs

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and animation memes.

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This is my first time using Amino so…

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I’m downloading the MAP Amino and here we
go.

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And we’re in!

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It’s a mass of color.

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I expected to be overwhelmed but I actually
figured out how to use the app right away.

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It’s really well organized, and gets even
better depending on who is the leader of each

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community.

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The Night In the Woods curator gets top stars
- even the categories have custom names.

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In each group you can chat, make quizzes and
polls, post art, and blog.

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Oh no, the app is stuck.

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Oh my gosh.

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I can’t get out of the facial recognition
avatar.

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AAAAHHHH

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Turns out there’s a main Amino App that
you may need to get into other groups, so

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I downloaded that too and started poking around.

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I like all of this stuff.

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Oh no I really AM A NERD!

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If you’re a hobby artist yourself, there
are some great art communities on Amino.

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I’ll probably talk about this in Season
Three at some point, but artists tend to band

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together in groups and get better together,
so it’s nice to interact with others at

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a similar skill level.

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So that’s the MAP amino, and the reason
I mention it is because much of Rea’s work

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has been Multi Animator Project and animation
meme focused: lots of little short few-second

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long animations packed with poppy colors and
minimalist but cute backgrounds, although

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this year I get the sense that has changed
and she’s going to be doing new things.

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The most recognizable aspect of Rea’s Adobe
Flash animation style are the hairline outlines

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that are an even thickness throughout.

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Fills are sometimes shaded and sometimes not,
but those outlines stay true!

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Of course there are other art styles she experiments
with, but this is the go-to you’ll see the

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most.

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She experiments with animation techniques
as much as art styles, actually.

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Sometimes it’s puppetry and sometimes it’s
original drawings and sometimes it’s not

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really animation at all.

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I guess I’ll call it still frame animation?

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Framination?

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Framination.

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Hm.

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No.

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I don’t know if I like that.

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It’s the same as whatever Scribble Kibble
is “animated” in.

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There isn’t an official term for this, but
given how popular it is on YouTube we need

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to think of something!

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I’m going to call it still frame for now.

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Mermaids are Jerks is the biggest original
animation in Rea’s portfolio.

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There’s a making of video that I linked
below that shows how Rea animates with the

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thin outlines.

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In this case she starts with a storyboard
that uses regular thick sketch lines, and

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then draws on top of that with the thin lines
to create keyframes.

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Once she has keyframes, the rest of the animation
is putting down the middle position poses

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and then drawing all of the connecting inbetween
frames.

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The unfortunate thing about animating underwater
like this is it requires a lot of original

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drawings, especially with the mermaid’s
hair.

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Under water, hair has practically infinite
follow-through.

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What that means is if someone turns their
head, their hair keeps moving afterwards forever.

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You can tell Rea got tired of dealing with
it past the opening and the hair ends up being

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still.

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As for the future, lately Rea’s been doing
a lot of commission animation for music videos

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on YouTube channels like The Living Tombstone,
Jordan Sweeto, and jacksfilms.

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Now the interesting thing about these animations
is they are much more heavily special effects-dosed

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than the cartoons on her own channel.

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I’m not sure if she’s been doing this
herself, or if it’s the work of somebody

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else who does the video production on all
of these animations.

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Hmm.

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Yeah.

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The effects are video production work.

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Rea does the animation - you can see it cleanly
and unedited at this point in the Mario video

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- and then video production takes those animations,
puts background layers in, does all the special

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effects, does all of the imitation light and
shadows on top of the 2D characters, and adds

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camera movements.

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As always, you can find all of the cartoons
I talked about below.

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Here’s some of the fan art you’ve sent
in.

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Special thanks to the Scribble Kibble show
sponsors Trevor and Nitsua, and everyone else

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who is keeping the show and original animations
going through Patreon.