WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.140 --> 00:00:03.750 Welcome to Scribble Kibble, an animation show about how animations are made. 00:00:03.750 --> 00:00:08.090 I’m going to dig into my animation pile for something that will make an easy, straightforward 00:00:08.090 --> 00:00:09.090 episode. 00:00:09.090 --> 00:00:10.180 Maybe something 3D? 00:00:10.180 --> 00:00:11.590 Like 3D is ever straightforward. 00:00:11.590 --> 00:00:13.770 Oh I know, Gorillaz Spirit House. 00:00:13.770 --> 00:00:15.020 That’s 3D, I think. 00:00:15.020 --> 00:00:16.270 Let’s do that one. 00:00:16.270 --> 00:00:17.289 Check the link below. 00:00:17.289 --> 00:00:18.289 Wait! Wait. 00:00:18.289 --> 00:00:19.289 Wait. 00:00:19.289 --> 00:00:20.920 I’m going to give you the link to the 360 version. 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:25.999 If you’re watching on your phone, hold your phone up and turn around to look around the 00:00:25.999 --> 00:00:26.999 environment. 00:00:26.999 --> 00:00:32.890 On a computer, click and drag around on the video screen or use WASD keys. 00:00:32.890 --> 00:00:36.750 Or put on your VR headset. 00:00:36.750 --> 00:00:38.200 Go! 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:41.320 Now, satisfy my curiosity. 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:45.140 Did you try to stay focused on the characters, or did you end up looking around at everything 00:00:45.140 --> 00:00:46.140 else? 00:00:46.140 --> 00:00:51.680 I stared at the sky for the last minute to see if anything happened. 00:00:51.680 --> 00:00:56.269 If you found your eyes wandering, that is the major problem with animating movies in 00:00:56.269 --> 00:00:59.289 360, let alone Virtual Reality. 00:00:59.289 --> 00:01:02.120 How do you keep people watching the story? 00:01:02.120 --> 00:01:03.239 Ha! 00:01:03.239 --> 00:01:06.280 Trick question, you can’t. 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:10.920 You can’t force someone to stay focused in a true free-to-wander environment. 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:14.950 For that reason, traditional storytelling doesn’t work. 00:01:14.950 --> 00:01:18.630 Watch the regular version of Spirit House and it’s a completely different experience 00:01:18.630 --> 00:01:20.030 than the 360 version. 00:01:20.030 --> 00:01:24.070 There’s a level of editorial control in the flat version that you won’t get in the 00:01:24.070 --> 00:01:29.090 360, just like there are fully rotational spaces you can look around in 360 that you 00:01:29.090 --> 00:01:30.619 don’t see in the flat version. 00:01:30.619 --> 00:01:35.299 I mean, geeze, in the 360 version you might not see the first minute of the animation 00:01:35.299 --> 00:01:38.799 because you end up looking around the train car you’re stuck in. 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:40.549 Is one better than the other? 00:01:40.549 --> 00:01:41.549 Not really. 00:01:41.549 --> 00:01:42.549 They’re just different. 00:01:42.549 --> 00:01:47.870 See, the 360 version is designed so that even if you do wander, you still get the magical 00:01:47.870 --> 00:01:50.000 trippy music video experience. 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:51.799 Especially in the asteroid field. 00:01:51.799 --> 00:02:03.390 You can enjoy the music and watch those fruity pebble rocks float by. 00:02:03.390 --> 00:02:07.240 Like almost every other Gorillaz animated music video, everything about Spirit House 00:02:07.240 --> 00:02:08.690 is superb. 00:02:08.690 --> 00:02:11.590 Both the 2D and 3D animations are top quality. 00:02:11.590 --> 00:02:15.879 The textures on the 3D environments could fool you into thinking this is a stop motion 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:16.879 set. 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:17.879 Look at this. 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:19.580 Looks like tiny little props made in the real world. 00:02:19.580 --> 00:02:23.840 And the set artists couldn’t just do whatever they wanted - their art had to fit inside 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:28.970 the limitations of Google Spotlight to look good in 360 YouTube. 00:02:28.970 --> 00:02:32.040 All this pizazz comes with a price tag, though. 00:02:32.040 --> 00:02:33.489 800,000 dollars. 00:02:33.489 --> 00:02:34.489 Woo! 00:02:34.489 --> 00:02:39.470 One particularly interesting thing to me is how the snake monster’s mouth appears to 00:02:39.470 --> 00:02:43.010 be a movie clip projected onto the 3D model. 00:02:43.010 --> 00:02:44.630 In other words, an animated texture. 00:02:44.630 --> 00:02:49.010 The flat, violently ugly mouth is pretty horrifying. 00:02:49.010 --> 00:02:54.430 There’s at least one scene where the 2D animated characters clip through the 3D characters. 00:02:54.430 --> 00:02:55.430 Whoops. 00:02:55.430 --> 00:03:00.299 This is probably the 3D character animator wanting to keep the monster centered in the 00:03:00.299 --> 00:03:03.250 shot and look like it’s shouting in Russel’s face. 00:03:03.250 --> 00:03:07.130 The clipping would go away if the 3D model were moved up a bit. 00:03:07.130 --> 00:03:11.500 You’re trying to keep a 2D piece of paper art with fake depth from intersecting something 00:03:11.500 --> 00:03:12.500 with real depth. 00:03:12.500 --> 00:03:26.370 It’s a fun dance of planning, layer stacking, and masking. 00:03:26.370 --> 00:03:30.849 If you’re thinking of making a YouTube 360 video yourself, this is what you do. 00:03:30.849 --> 00:03:36.300 Either buy a camera that can record in 360, or get software to stitch together videos 00:03:36.300 --> 00:03:38.640 to make a 360 degree setting. 00:03:38.640 --> 00:03:43.540 Then, download a YouTube application that will apply metadata to the video to enable 00:03:43.540 --> 00:03:46.340 360 degree compatibility. 00:03:46.340 --> 00:03:48.319 Upload it. 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:49.860 It sounds deceptively simple. 00:03:49.860 --> 00:03:55.189 There’s plenty of bad or mediocre 360 videos, where you can see the seams where videos were 00:03:55.189 --> 00:03:59.569 stitched together, or where the depth of field sucks and you feel more like you are looking 00:03:59.569 --> 00:04:04.129 at a ring of video that surrounds you, rather than standing in the environment itself. 00:04:04.129 --> 00:04:09.050 For 360 animations, you need to design them in 3D. 00:04:09.050 --> 00:04:13.230 In Spirit House, the 2D characters are placed inside a 3D program. 00:04:13.230 --> 00:04:18.190 The artists could have also drawn the 2D surfaces for everything in the backgrounds, and set 00:04:18.190 --> 00:04:23.040 those drawings up in the 3D environment to create an animation that would stylistically 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:25.320 look like it was pure 2D. 00:04:25.320 --> 00:04:30.360 No matter what style you’re using, in the end everything has to go through a 3D program. 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:46.440 Otherwise the 360 video will look like 00:04:46.440 --> 00:04:59.390 a cylindrical, but flat, painting.