WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.130 --> 00:00:03.590 Great, let’s talk about Harry Partridge’s animations! 00:00:03.590 --> 00:00:07.130 Can you tell I’m trying to cram everything I put off for two years into the show before 00:00:07.130 --> 00:00:08.130 episode 100? 00:00:08.130 --> 00:00:09.130 Maybe I should’ve waited until I updated all this old wolf artwork. 00:00:09.130 --> 00:00:10.130 Oh well! 00:00:10.130 --> 00:00:13.590 I should mention that pretty much every one of Harry’s cartoons has some kind of inappropriate 00:00:13.590 --> 00:00:17.919 joke in it, and on top of that most of his animations make me laugh, so I don’t even 00:00:17.919 --> 00:00:23.060 know what to recommend to watch as an example if, by chance, you’ve never seen anything 00:00:23.060 --> 00:00:24.060 of his ever. 00:00:24.060 --> 00:00:26.579 I can’t imagine that, but I guess it’s possible. 00:00:26.579 --> 00:00:30.599 He’s a king of meta animation jokes. 00:00:30.599 --> 00:00:36.150 (clip) Start by watching With Animation You Can. 00:00:36.150 --> 00:00:38.960 Dr. Bees is a classic. 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:44.260 And then two of my personal favorites are A Kickstarter Video and This Year. 00:00:44.260 --> 00:00:49.890 Of course there’s the video game ones and his series Starbarians too, which is where 00:00:49.890 --> 00:00:52.210 the clip I just showed came from. 00:00:52.210 --> 00:00:57.820 There are three, mmm, four things that make Harry Partidge’s animations so good. 00:00:57.820 --> 00:00:58.940 One is the humor. 00:00:58.940 --> 00:01:03.739 Harry’s artwork always assists in making the dialogue even more funny. 00:01:03.739 --> 00:01:06.750 Two is that it’s frame-by-frame animation. 00:01:06.750 --> 00:01:10.149 Everything is an individual drawing, and Harry’s characters move a lot. 00:01:10.149 --> 00:01:13.859 Time consuming, but obviously really good quality. 00:01:13.859 --> 00:01:16.050 Three is character mass. 00:01:16.050 --> 00:01:19.350 Most toons you watch are flat 2D characters. 00:01:19.350 --> 00:01:22.939 Harry’s people have dimension to them. 00:01:22.939 --> 00:01:24.530 Four is facial expressions. 00:01:24.530 --> 00:01:27.240 That’s what I want to take a closer look at. 00:01:27.240 --> 00:01:32.510 The way Harry animates heads uses all of the standard elements of course: animated pupils, 00:01:32.510 --> 00:01:35.159 eyelids, eyebrows, and mouths. 00:01:35.159 --> 00:01:38.329 The mouths have a line that defines the bottom lip. 00:01:38.329 --> 00:01:43.779 Sounds simple enough, but that one line separates these animations from standard cartoon mouths, 00:01:43.779 --> 00:01:46.439 which tend to be just the mouth shape with no lips. 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:49.990 You’ll also notice that the teeth in the mouths has depth. 00:01:49.990 --> 00:01:55.630 The one thing Harry does exceptionally well with is articulating the eyelids and eyebrows 00:01:55.630 --> 00:01:57.289 to match the dialogue. 00:01:57.289 --> 00:02:01.540 A lot of times in cartoons the characters eyes are limited to simple blinks and the 00:02:01.540 --> 00:02:02.799 rare pushed expression. 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:08.800 Harry’s toons have eyelids that are always doing things besides blinking: subtle movements 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:11.850 up and down both on the top and bottom lids. 00:02:11.850 --> 00:02:15.920 The eyebrows also make those constant subtle movements. 00:02:15.920 --> 00:02:19.920 For instance here, the eyebrow doesn’t stay cocked through this entire sequence. 00:02:19.920 --> 00:02:24.670 It actually goes down and then back up again with the blink and head rotation. 00:02:24.670 --> 00:02:28.980 This type of character animation is what makes his people so lively. 00:02:28.980 --> 00:02:34.120 When we get into an extreme expression, Harry animates in extra lines to further define 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:36.170 the eyelids and brows. 00:02:36.170 --> 00:02:40.780 The characters don’t just have the eyebrow shape, there are physical ridges on the face 00:02:40.780 --> 00:02:42.720 the brows are attached to. 00:02:42.720 --> 00:02:50.650 A lot of cartoons ignore that fact and go with floaty eyebrows. 00:02:50.650 --> 00:02:55.390 One stylistic thing about Harry Partridge eyes is when they’re open, there’s a little 00:02:55.390 --> 00:02:56.530 line at the top. 00:02:56.530 --> 00:03:02.620 This is the eyelid, more or less, and the direction it points depends on which way and 00:03:02.620 --> 00:03:04.960 at what angle the head is facing. 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:10.380 This more defined eye style feels inspired by older cartoons; it’s not really the type 00:03:10.380 --> 00:03:12.800 of eyes you see around often anymore. 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:16.440 Everybody’s doing semi-perfect ovals these days. 00:03:16.440 --> 00:03:17.440 Hrrrmmmm. 00:03:17.440 --> 00:03:19.490 Ok that’s enough talk about faces. 00:03:19.490 --> 00:03:23.010 They tend to be one of the most unique things between different animators. 00:03:23.010 --> 00:03:25.260 Everybody has their own way of drawing them. 00:03:25.260 --> 00:03:46.090 Thanks for watching and see you next time.