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Hola enemigos! Para español, haga clic en
la descripción. Everyone else, onward with

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the video and pretend that didn't happen.

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You’ve stumbled right into another episode
of Scribble Kibble, a weekly show about animation

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made by an animator. This time I want to go
back and revisit the animations I watched

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when I had no idea it was possible for a normal
person (yeah okay) like me to make videos.

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This is nostalgic for me. It’s… when you
go back and you look at something that inspired

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you, and you look at what you can do today
and you think, "Wow. I could make that now."

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It’s… makes it not as special as it used
to be.

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Yeesh. Let’s not go there. Instead, let’s
go to CCC. Triple C. Should I call it triple

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C? The city of opportunities. The stark raving
mad world created by Vinnie Veritas.

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I’ll give you a foothold in CCC. Triple
C? I don't... let's go with CCC. Triple C

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sounds weird. Before I cut you loose. I'll
give you a foothold in it. Yeah, whatever!

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I'll help you figure the world out. So every
character in the background of Vinnie’s

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comics and animations is different. A lot
of them have weird markings, odd weapons,

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unusual hair, cool accessories, unique powers
- because CCC is a city made up of all of

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Vinnie’s ideas and abandoned concepts thrown
together in one place. Imagine a city where

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all the main characters from everything everywhere
ever go. That's basically what it's like.

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I actually can’t decide which animation
to have you watch, so let’s do it this way.

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The one I’m going to talk about is Gravitaxis...
BUT these are my other picks. Hoy te amo is

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a story about a treasure hunter. Papalote
is a funny sequence about a guy who flies

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a kite. And Rush 2 is an action-packed video
that shows everyday life in CCC.

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So pick what you feel like watching and I'll
see you in a second.

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Well, not a second. If it were a second that
would be a very short animation. Yeah, Vinnie's

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animations are actually pretty long. It's...
it's really impressive. [laughs]

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Ten years ago this was the top crop of internet
animation. There were a lot less people making

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internet cartoons, and it was harder to find
them because there weren’t many places that

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collected videos. Vinnie couldn’t even upload
his first cartoons to YouTube because it didn’t

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exist!

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Gravitaxis is his most recent CCC-related
animation. What stands out about it is the

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fact that it’s animated backwards. Oh sure,
you think, so he just animated it and then

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played backwards - no! He pictured what the
movement should look like if it were in reverse

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and then animated it. I know this because
the original video is pure Flash, a good ol’

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.swf file. Flash has no option to reverse
a video, so if you wanted to play something

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backwards you would have to either write an
ActionScript code to do it or individually

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move all 8,088 pictures the animation is made
out of so they are in backwards order.

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Plus, some of the movements are weird looking
if you play the animation forward. So while

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I think some of the sequences were animated
normally and then the frames were moved around

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to be reversed, for the most part the animation
was planned and drawn backwards. Wow!

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The backwards theme goes really well with
the video’s story, since it’s about the

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character Icaro and his gravity reversing
shoes. At the end of the video - which is

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the beginning of the story - the guards have
caught him with a mass of blue packets that

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are a fictional drug called “Full Color
CCC.” As Icaro falls up, he throws the packets

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down all over the town, and later he sprays
the drug in a guard’s eye and that's what

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causes the rainbow effect we see here. Icarus
- I mean Icaro - then plummets to the ground.

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What we see at the beginning of the video,
then, is the moment before impact.

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I’ll leave you to think about that one.

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The animation itself is a mix of frame-by-frame
and tweens. In other words, every time you

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see the character it’s a new drawing, but
a lot of times that character is made of pieces

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that can be moved, aka tweened. This shot
here, the arms and the hair are separate pieces

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from the body. That's why the hair can be
pushed around to look flowy, and the arm can

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move up faster without affecting the body
drawing. It gives it more life than a rigid

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drawing stuck in one position, but it saves
the animator a bunch of time because they

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only have to draw the character once for that
shot. After the pieces are drawn, the animator

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just tells them to move from one spot to another
over a period of time. That’s called a tween.

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The arm moving here is a tween. (2:42) The
arm moving here is frame-by-frame. (2:44)

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Haha, sorry, I’m having a moment where at
this point I’ve watched the animation so

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many times to make this video for you, and
I’m remembering just how awesome it is after

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all these years. The timing and emotion are
synced so well with the music. The music goes

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up, the character falls up, the music calms
down, we see the character falling out of

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the world and into the vast expanse of space.
Such good scene selection to tell the story.

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Vinnie takes on some pretty challenging animation.
When the guard has Icaro by the sleeve, the

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two are rotating, so the size of everything
keeps changing as it gets closer or farther

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from our point of view. You have to have a
good sense for how something looks from every

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angle to animate this right. Same deal over
here, with an even more difficult animation.

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The camera moves all the way around the cart.
At the same time it starts above the cart

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at dice man’s head, moves down below the
cart, and then comes up to see inside it.

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So the camera is moving on this downward upward
spiral thing. Since you can’t just tell

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a camera to do that on a 2D animation, you
really have to have a sense of dimensional

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space to pull it off as you are drawing each
picture in that animation.

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So much rotating, aaahh! This animation is-
This is animating without fear! No fear that

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it might not turn out perfect, no fear that
it you can’t do it, only a desire to make

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what is in your mind’s eye come to life!
You want it to rotate? You DO it! No whining!

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Aye, I was going to talk about how the art
used to look amazing to me and now since I

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could animate it myself, it seems dull and
there are places where the animation could

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have been improved, places where the colors
didn’t fill correctly because of the close

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gap tool, but you know what! No! This is good
animation! I like it!

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And you know what else I like? There are all
these little details in the backgrounds. Look,

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tic-tac-toe, a clock with 5 hands, a broken
plunger, a kite is stuck here , cactus burgers

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- yeah, that's awesome cactus burgers - a
piano key roof.

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This is the type of detail in Vinnie’s artwork.

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That’s the city of CCC. If you want to read
the comic and see more of Vinnie Veritas’

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animations, all of those materials are below!
There’s animated skits, great music like

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Spanish Flea, an animated cartoon series called
Astromiau… oh… oh dear. Uh, come back

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next week. I’ll catch you on the flip sideeeee!