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Oh, you came back! Wait, you want more?
Good.

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This is Scribble Kibble, a show where an animator
talks about animation. Fancy that! And oh,

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have I got a treat for you today. A treat
in the form of... If you like animation even

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a little bit and you haven't seen this video,
stop here and watch it now.

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Before I get into everything about it that
is flipping amazing, I have a little preface

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about Gobelins. Gobelins? Agh, thank you French,for
all those silent letters. Gobelins is a god-tier

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school of visual arts in France. Seriously,
if you want to be absolutely mesmerized, find

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a place where Gobelins posts its student’s
videos, and watch everything. I have lots

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of videos from the school I want to showcase,
but we’re starting with MORTAL BREAKUP INFERNO

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because it is my personal favorite.

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The reason is because the premise of “let’s
make a breakup as dramatic as possible,”

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is illustrated so well by the pacing, the
acting, the animation techniques, and the

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use of color. And I can’t resist the symbolism
at the very end. That very last shot. It screams.

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You cannot miss it, especially not with those
sound effects. If you don’t know what I’m

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talking about now, just come back in a few
years. [laughs] Okay.

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An animation like this starts with good planning.
So the team knew it wanted to create a breakup

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story that starts peacefully, abruptly cuts
to action and gets more and more intense until

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it snaps and we’re back to peace. That’s
where the pacing comes in.

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The toon starts with slow, longer shots, this
smooth, slithering away motion of the man,

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calm blue colors - and then slam! The door
closes and shot, shot, shot. Fast pace. That

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rhythm starts over again after the title.
Long sequences of looking at the same thing

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that get cut shorter and shorter until and
we only see each shot for less than a second.

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And on top of that we’re getting these insane
color schemes. We go from blues in the beginning

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to reds to haunted dark blues of the forest
and then - I love this - the colors collapse

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on themselves until skin is hot pink and trees
are primary colors. There’s green on the

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ground. The colors are set up specifically
to make your brain freak out. Plus there’s

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loud climactic music, fast motion, and the
voice actor is screaming at this point.

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And one frame later it’s the complete opposite.
You’re supposed to feel like you’ve woken

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up from a nightmare. It takes all of those
elements - not just well drawn character animation

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- to give you that feeling.

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The acting in this video is great, by the
way. This scene in particular. You can see

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that the fisherman is only interested in fishing,
just as you can see that the girlfriend is

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only pretending to be interested in the fisherman.
What she’s really after is her ex. It’s

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acted out both in their body movements and
where their eyes are looking. Watch. Acting

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like this is what makes the animation superb,
because all we have to do is look to be able

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to know how the characters are thinking and
feeling.

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I’ve got to escape I’ve got to escape
I’ve got to You’re mine.

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Ha, look at these funny frames I found! These
are smear frames. They help make fast, exaggerated

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motions and acting possible.

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In terms of technique, MORTAL BREAKUP INFERNO
uses 2D character animation on top of 2D backgrounds

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and a few 3D backgrounds. It all begins with
concept art. This is very detailed art that

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helps the video makers get a sense of the
world they are working with. Then, the character

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concept art. And the character concepts are
later turned into model sheets that the animators

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can look at to make sure they are drawing
the same thing from every single perspective.

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At this point after those concepts are done,
storyboarding comes into play, and we can

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see how the movie should look and be timed
when it's finished. Hah, look at this. It

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seems like they had a different ending in
mind at first.

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And now we get into the hardcore drawing.

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First, backgrounds. In my mind it’s important
to at least have these drafted out because

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you need to animate your characters with a
sense for where the floor and the sky are,

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so to speak, and whether or not your person’s
going to run facefirst into a tree if they

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walk left. While the background artists are
painting the final backgrounds and building

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3D models, the animators will take these rough
drafts and start animating.

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As you can see, basic motion sketches come
first. On top of these roughs the animator

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draws the most important parts in the animation,
and then they’ll go bark... and then they're

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go bark?! Woof! Woof! And then they'll go
back and draw every position in between. MORTAL

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BREAKUP INFERNO also has shading. If you’ve
ever noticed that a lot of mass produced 2D

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cartoons don’t have shading, this is why:
you have to animate all of the shading the

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same way the character is animated. Which
means individual drawings for every piece

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of shading.

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Shading is the bane of my existence.

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Then they added flat colors to the animations.
And now is when we get into compositing. This

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is where you take your backgrounds and characters
and insert them into a program like After

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Effects and add filters, light, camera movements,
and special effects.

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One thing I find interesting is it looks like
the lines themselves are done in black, probably

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in Toon Boom or something like that. But when
you see the final image, the lines are colored,

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and some of them are imperfect, like a paintbrush
did them. I suspect that an animator or colorest

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updated the line colors, and the texture is
either a line stroke setting in the animation

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program, or it’s a filter added only to
the linework in the compositing stage.

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Slap all of that into a rendering program
with the music and sound effects added and

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you’re done.

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If you want to see more behind the scenes
of MORTAL BREAKUP INFERNO, I’ve put some

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videos from the artists below. I’ve already
shown some of the pieces from those videos

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here.

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Remember to come back next week for the new
show. Or I’ll be coming for you. [laughing]

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Oh, and please leave a tip if you enjoy the
show. Bye~