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 --> 00:00:07.109 Caravan Palace - Lone Digger is today’s featured animation. 00:00:07.109 --> 00:00:11.469 If you can’t handle blood or cage dancing, don’t watch it. 00:00:11.469 --> 00:00:17.939 If you don’t know what cage dancing is, don’t watch it. 00:00:17.939 --> 00:00:22.890 Here we go! 00:00:22.890 --> 00:00:27.340 And now begins my usual quest to dig up how the animation was made. 00:00:27.340 --> 00:00:32.309 So here I am sifting through the Director and Art Director Double Ninja, the Production 00:00:32.309 --> 00:00:37.140 Company Cumulus, the Illustrator Jérémie Balais, who is also one of the animators alongside 00:00:37.140 --> 00:00:40.039 Jeff le Bars and my gosh I really need to learn French. 00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:42.540 Also editing by Thomas Vernay. 00:00:42.540 --> 00:00:45.320 Somebody had mentioned to me that this animation was probably rotoscoped. 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:51.909 What that means in animation terms is that an animator made 3D models, animated them, 00:00:51.909 --> 00:00:55.579 and then made 2D animation on top of it. 00:00:55.579 --> 00:00:58.800 That would be a very inefficient way to make this video. 00:00:58.800 --> 00:01:02.940 I’m not saying it’s not possible, it would just take a needlessly long time. 00:01:02.940 --> 00:01:07.390 Rotoscoping is something you do when you have a lot, lot of frames. 00:01:07.390 --> 00:01:10.160 Say Freak of the Week level smoothness. 00:01:10.160 --> 00:01:14.280 I’ve been learning how much of a pain in the butt 3D animation is. 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:19.160 So why would you make a 3D animation just to put papercraft style 2D drawings on top 00:01:19.160 --> 00:01:20.440 of it? 00:01:20.440 --> 00:01:21.440 Nope. 00:01:21.440 --> 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 --> 00:01:37.450 get this style of animation versus also dealing with 3D models. 00:01:37.450 --> 00:01:42.890 Due to the anthropomorphic nature of the characters, you could actually shoot live action footage 00:01:42.890 --> 00:01:44.470 and draw on top of that. 00:01:44.470 --> 00:01:47.640 But if you look at Jeremie’s work, I say it’s just 2D. 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:52.020 He’s worked together with the other Lone Digger animator Jeff le Bars before. 00:01:52.020 --> 00:01:55.330 Both of them are phenomenal 2D animators. 00:01:55.330 --> 00:01:57.520 Jeff also knows 3DSmax. 00:01:57.520 --> 00:02:01.140 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 --> 00:02:16.879 carefully study live footage of people to figure out how they should move. 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:18.909 It doesn’t mean they drew on top of the footage or used digital 3D models. 00:02:18.909 --> 00:02:22.769 Jeremie’s “Making of Film de Cube” video shows you how he creates an animation by studying 00:02:22.769 --> 00:02:27.209 references and then making original drawings in TVPaint. 00:02:27.209 --> 00:02:29.900 Studying real life is key for animation. 00:02:29.900 --> 00:02:33.599 Heck, we can even play a game where we watch Lone Digger and guess what parts would’ve 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:38.959 needed references to study, and whether or not that 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 --> 00:02:46.430 body movements. 00:02:46.430 --> 00:02:50.510 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 --> 00:02:55.469 Snakes have a very characteristic motion when they are about to strike. 00:02:55.469 --> 00:02:56.610 Animal reference. 00:02:56.610 --> 00:02:57.610 Hands. 00:02:57.610 --> 00:03:02.040 I would be making the same motion with my hands and studying it to draw this. 00:03:02.040 --> 00:03:03.040 Human reference. 00:03:03.040 --> 00:03:11.530 Generic motion from the donkey - no reference needed. 00:03:11.530 --> 00:03:15.769 When I say reference, I don’t mean exact video clip of the motion you need. 00:03:15.769 --> 00:03:20.840 It’s more finding a similar motion and studying how it works so you could draw it from any 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:21.840 angle. 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:27.389 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 --> 00:03:36.849 running, walking, or jumping. 00:03:36.849 --> 00:03:39.799 Slow motion of snakes catching prey. 00:03:39.799 --> 00:03:42.980 Slow motion videos are the best. 00:03:42.980 --> 00:03:48.879 Overall, I’d say the most interesting thing about Lone Digger is the art style. 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:54.529 It looks like somebody hit the Posterize button in Photoshop a bunch due to the thick pieces 00:03:54.529 --> 00:03:59.000 of solid color with no outlines and drastic hardline shading. 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:04.140 Other than that I was surprised so many people wanted to hear about this since storywise 00:04:04.140 --> 00:04:10.230 all it is is varsity jacket dudes showing up to a night club and everybody dies in a 00:04:10.230 --> 00:04:12.790 bloody, sexy dancing massacre. 00:04:12.790 --> 00:04:17.549 Hold on, let me just wipe the blood from my eyes. 00:04:17.549 --> 00:04:19.009 Oh wow, you all died. 00:04:19.009 --> 00:04:20.009 Ugh. 00:04:20.009 --> 00:04:26.759 I need a 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 --> 00:04:38.889 And some traditional art by Justin M. I still have to do the eating dog food episode. 00:04:38.889 --> 00:04:41.419 Ultimate floofy cheeks on Laune’s drawing. 00:04:41.419 --> 00:04:43.349 I brush them every day! 00:04:43.349 --> 00:04:51.560 A sketch of my profile picture 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 --> 00:04:57.080 Thanks for watching. 00:04:57.080 --> 00:04:58.720 Thanks for writing. 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:03.190 Thanks for drawing and thanks for Patreoning! 00:05:03.190 --> 00:05:04.440 Patroning. 00:05:04.440 --> 00:05:07.740 Paparoniing ning aring nign ing.