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Hola enemigos!

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Para español, haga clic en la descripción.

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Everyone else, onward with 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.

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This time I want to go back and revisit the
animations I watched when I had no idea it

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was possible for a normal person (yeah okay)
like me to make videos.

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This is nostalgic for me.

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It’s… when you go back and you look at
something that inspired you, and you look

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at what you can do today and you think, "Wow.

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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.

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Let’s not go there.

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Instead, let’s go to CCC.

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Triple C. Should I call it triple C?

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The city of opportunities.

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The stark raving mad world created by Vinnie
Veritas.

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I’ll give you a foothold in CCC.

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Triple C?

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I don't...

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let's go with CCC.

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Triple C sounds weird.

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Before I cut you loose.

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I'll give you a foothold in it.

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Yeah, whatever!

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I'll help you figure the world out.

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So every character in the background of Vinnie’s
comics and animations is different.

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A lot of them have weird markings, odd weapons,
unusual hair, cool accessories, unique powers

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- because CCC is a city made up of all of
Vinnie’s ideas and abandoned concepts thrown

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together in one place.

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Imagine a city where all the main characters
from everything everywhere ever go.

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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...

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BUT these are my other picks.

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Hoy te amo is a story about a treasure hunter.

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Papalote is a funny sequence about a guy who
flies a kite.

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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.

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If it were a second that would be a very short
animation.

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Yeah, Vinnie's animations are actually pretty
long.

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It's... it's really impressive.

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[laughs]

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Ten years ago this was the top crop of internet
animation.

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There were a lot less people making internet
cartoons, and it was harder to find them because

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there weren’t many places that collected
videos.

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Vinnie couldn’t even upload his first cartoons
to YouTube because it didn’t exist!

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Gravitaxis is his most recent CCC-related
animation.

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What stands out about it is the fact that
it’s animated backwards.

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Oh sure, you think, so he just animated it
and then played backwards - no!

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He pictured what the movement should look
like if it were in reverse and then animated

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it.

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I know this because the original video is
pure Flash, a good ol’ .swf file.

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Flash has no option to reverse a video, so
if you wanted to play something backwards

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you would have to either write an ActionScript
code to do it or individually move all 8,088

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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.

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So while I think some of the sequences were
animated normally and then the frames were

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moved around to be reversed, for the most
part the animation was planned and drawn backwards.

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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.

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At the end of the video - which is the beginning
of the story - the guards have caught him

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with a mass of blue packets that are a fictional
drug called “Full Color CCC.”

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As Icaro falls up, he throws the packets down
all over the town, and later he sprays the

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drug in a guard’s eye and that's what causes
the rainbow effect we see here.

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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.

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In other words, every time you see the character
it’s a new drawing, but a lot of times that

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character is made of pieces that can be moved,
aka tweened.

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This shot here, the arms and the hair are
separate pieces from the body.

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That's why the hair can be pushed around to
look flowy, and the arm can move up faster

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without affecting the body drawing.

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It gives it more life than a rigid drawing
stuck in one position, but it saves the animator

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a bunch of time because they only have to
draw the character once for that shot.

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After the pieces are drawn, the animator just
tells them to move from one spot to another

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over a period of time.

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That’s called a tween.

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The arm moving here is a tween.

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

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(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.

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The timing and emotion are synced so well
with the music.

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The music goes up, the character falls up,
the music calms down, we see the character

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falling out of the world and into the vast
expanse of space.

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Such good scene selection to tell the story.

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Vinnie takes on some pretty challenging animation.

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When the guard has Icaro by the sleeve, the
two are rotating, so the size of everything

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keeps changing as it gets closer or farther
from our point of view.

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You have to have a good sense for how something
looks from every angle to animate this right.

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Same deal over here, with an even more difficult
animation.

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The camera moves all the way around the cart.

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At the same time it starts above the cart
at dice man’s head, moves down below the

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cart, and then comes up to see inside it.

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So the camera is moving on this downward upward
spiral thing.

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Since you can’t just tell a camera to do
that on a 2D animation, you really have to

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have a sense of dimensional space to pull
it off as you are drawing each picture in

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that animation.

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So much rotating, aaahh!

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This animation is- This is animating without
fear!

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

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desire to make what is in your mind’s eye
come to life!

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You want it to rotate?

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You DO it!

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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!

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No!

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This is good animation!

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I like it!

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And you know what else I like?

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There are all these little details in the
backgrounds.

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

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burgers - 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.

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If you want to read the comic and see more
of Vinnie Veritas’ animations, all of those

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materials are below!

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There’s animated skits, great music like
Spanish Flea, an animated cartoon series called

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Astromiau… oh… oh dear.

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Uh, come back next week.

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I’ll catch you on the flip sideeeee!