WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:01.369 --> 00:00:04.210 Skip the exposition and cut to the chase. 00:00:04.210 --> 00:00:08.540 Caravan Palace - Lone Digger is today’s featured animation. If you can’t handle 00:00:08.540 --> 00:00:15.889 blood or cage dancing, don’t watch it. If you don’t know what cage dancing is, don’t 00:00:15.889 --> 00:00:22.890 watch it. Here we go! 00:00:22.890 --> 00:00:29.439 And now begins my usual quest to dig up how the animation was made. So here I am sifting 00:00:29.439 --> 00:00:33.539 through the Director and Art Director Double Ninja, the Production Company Cumulus, the 00:00:33.539 --> 00:00:37.859 Illustrator Jérémie Balais, who is also one of the animators alongside Jeff le Bars 00:00:37.859 --> 00:00:42.539 and my gosh I really need to learn French. Also editing by Thomas Vernay. 00:00:42.539 --> 00:00:46.780 Somebody had mentioned to me that this animation was probably rotoscoped. What that means in 00:00:46.780 --> 00:00:53.559 animation terms is that an animator made 3D models, animated them, and then made 2D animation 00:00:53.559 --> 00:00:55.579 on top of it. 00:00:55.579 --> 00:01:00.530 That would be a very inefficient way to make this video. I’m not saying it’s not possible, 00:01:00.530 --> 00:01:04.989 it would just take a needlessly long time. Rotoscoping is something you do when you have 00:01:04.989 --> 00:01:10.160 a lot, lot of frames. Say Freak of the Week level smoothness. 00:01:10.160 --> 00:01:14.940 I’ve been learning how much of a pain in the butt 3D animation is. So why would you 00:01:14.940 --> 00:01:21.390 make a 3D animation just to put papercraft style 2D drawings on top of it? Nope. 00:01:21.390 --> 00:01:28.430 Given Jeremie Balais is credited as an illustrator, what we are looking at here is probably pieces 00:01:28.430 --> 00:01:33.970 of 2D papercraft style drawings on top of 2D animation: a much more efficient way to 00:01:33.970 --> 00:01:39.220 get this style of animation versus also dealing with 3D models. Due to the anthropomorphic 00:01:39.220 --> 00:01:43.510 nature of the characters, you could actually shoot live action footage and draw on top 00:01:43.510 --> 00:01:44.470 of that. 00:01:44.470 --> 00:01:49.030 But if you look at Jeremie’s work, I say it’s just 2D. He’s worked together with 00:01:49.030 --> 00:01:55.330 the other Lone Digger animator Jeff le Bars before. Both of them are phenomenal 2D animators. 00:01:55.330 --> 00:02:01.140 Jeff also knows 3DSmax. That could account for a few of these backgrounds. 00:02:01.140 --> 00:02:06.180 Some of the distortions here look like After Effects, which may be Jeff’s doing since 00:02:06.180 --> 00:02:09.000 he has that program on his resume too. 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:13.379 The reason the motion of the animals in Lone Digger looks so human is because the animators 00:02:13.379 --> 00:02:16.950 carefully study live footage of people to figure out how they should move. It doesn’t 00:02:16.950 --> 00:02:19.480 mean they drew on top of the footage or used digital 3D models. Jeremie’s “Making of 00:02:19.480 --> 00:02:24.079 Film de Cube” video shows you how he creates an animation by studying references and then 00:02:24.079 --> 00:02:27.209 making original drawings in TVPaint. 00:02:27.209 --> 00:02:31.889 Studying real life is key for animation. Heck, we can even play a game where we watch Lone 00:02:31.889 --> 00:02:36.159 Digger and guess what parts would’ve needed references to study, and whether or not that 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:38.959 reference was human or animal. 00:02:38.959 --> 00:02:45.200 The dancer is more animated than anybody else in the club and has very specific, smooth 00:02:45.200 --> 00:02:50.510 body movements. You would have to watch somebody dancing this way to know how to animate it. 00:02:50.510 --> 00:02:51.989 Human reference. 00:02:51.989 --> 00:02:56.609 Snakes have a very characteristic motion when they are about to strike. Animal reference. 00:02:56.609 --> 00:03:02.420 Hands. I would be making the same motion with my hands and studying it to draw this. Human 00:03:02.420 --> 00:03:02.900 reference. 00:03:02.900 --> 00:03:11.529 Generic motion from the donkey - no reference needed. 00:03:11.529 --> 00:03:16.069 When I say reference, I don’t mean exact video clip of the motion you need. It’s 00:03:16.069 --> 00:03:20.840 more finding a similar motion and studying how it works so you could draw it from any 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:27.389 angle. Watching how the muscles and anatomy and timing work out for that particular movement. 00:03:27.389 --> 00:03:33.769 I draw a lot of animals so I frequently find myself watching slow motion videos of animals 00:03:33.769 --> 00:03:41.129 running, walking, or jumping. Slow motion of snakes catching prey. Slow motion videos 00:03:41.129 --> 00:03:42.980 are the best. 00:03:42.980 --> 00:03:49.459 Overall, I’d say the most interesting thing about Lone Digger is the art style. It looks 00:03:49.459 --> 00:03:54.529 like somebody hit the Posterize button in Photoshop a bunch due to the thick pieces 00:03:54.529 --> 00:04:00.659 of solid color with no outlines and drastic hardline shading. Other than that I was surprised 00:04:00.659 --> 00:04:07.559 so many people wanted to hear about this since storywise all it is is varsity jacket dudes 00:04:07.559 --> 00:04:12.790 showing up to a night club and everybody dies in a bloody, sexy dancing massacre. 00:04:12.790 --> 00:04:22.879 Hold on, let me just wipe the blood from my eyes. Oh wow, you all died. Ugh. I need a 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:26.759 paycheck and a shower. 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:32.940 After that mess, have a soothing animation by ClaweyesTheWingedWolf made in FlipAClip. 00:04:32.940 --> 00:04:39.509 And some traditional art by Justin M. I still have to do the eating dog food episode. Ultimate 00:04:39.509 --> 00:04:45.660 floofy cheeks on Laune’s drawing. I brush them every day! A sketch of my profile picture 00:04:45.660 --> 00:04:51.560 by Jonathan Z and me being regal and fuzzy by northstar576. 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:55.440 Here’s the link to places you can submit art. 00:04:55.440 --> 00:05:04.440 Thanks for watching. Thanks for writing. Thanks for drawing and thanks for Patreoning! Patroning. 00:05:04.440 --> 00:05:07.740 Paparoniing ning aring nign ing.