WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:04.700 It is great to hear about how you’ve been inspired to draw, or go back to school, or 00:00:04.700 --> 00:00:08.910 try something new because of Scribble Kibble. You might not see it from your side of things, 00:00:08.910 --> 00:00:11.870 but I learn a lot by making this show. More often than not I have to do research to figure 00:00:11.870 --> 00:00:16.220 out how something was done. There’s a ton of animation techniques out there! 00:00:16.220 --> 00:00:21.600 I haven’t talked about animations without outlines yet, so at your request the featured 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:26.660 animation is Temmie Chang’s Potion Shop. 00:00:26.660 --> 00:00:33.239 Cute. Not an especially remarkable story, but cute and easy to follow. 00:00:33.239 --> 00:00:39.489 More interesting is the animation style because it has fuzzy edges yet it’s drawn in Flash, 00:00:39.489 --> 00:00:40.859 Photoshop, and After Effects. 00:00:40.859 --> 00:00:44.749 You can’t make this in Flash. Flash can’t natively make fuzzy lines like this - or at 00:00:44.749 --> 00:00:49.530 least the older versions can’t. So to recreate this style you would animate your character 00:00:49.530 --> 00:00:53.600 in Flash, export the animation file, import it into After Effects, and apply a filter 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:56.920 to the character that makes the edges rough. 00:00:56.920 --> 00:01:01.309 That would be the easy way. The problem with that is all of the edges on the closeup shots 00:01:01.309 --> 00:01:06.260 are fuzzy. Not just the outside edge of the whole character, but the inside pieces. A 00:01:06.260 --> 00:01:12.590 filter would only affect the outside edge… unless you... Hm. 00:01:12.590 --> 00:01:18.160 Style recreation adventure! Let’s try to make an animation with fuzzy edges in three 00:01:18.160 --> 00:01:19.550 different ways. 00:01:19.550 --> 00:01:27.210 The fastest style is an After Effects filter. Here is the picture I’m going to recreate. 00:01:27.210 --> 00:01:32.250 First, I’ll trace all of the different pieces of the character on different layers. 00:01:32.250 --> 00:01:38.420 This is what it would look like if drawn in Flash. Now, I’ll try exporting this as a 00:01:38.420 --> 00:01:43.090 single animation file. There. Okay, bring it into After Effects. 00:01:43.090 --> 00:01:49.980 My first instinct is to use a Sharpen effect. No, no, that’s not right. It makes the edges 00:01:49.980 --> 00:01:51.560 different colors. 00:01:51.560 --> 00:02:00.710 Smart blur. Woah. What the… What is this noodle soup going on. Weird. 00:02:00.710 --> 00:02:08.069 Okay, this is what we want, but with colored edges. Not white. Possibly could combine another 00:02:08.069 --> 00:02:11.400 effect with this to keep the edges the same color. But let’s keep trying filters. 00:02:11.400 --> 00:02:12.200 Nope. Nope. Nope. Cool though. 00:02:12.200 --> 00:02:16.409 This looks promising. Block Load. Uncheck start cleared. There. Now I can adjust how 00:02:16.409 --> 00:02:20.879 fuzzy the edges are. It’s working on the edges of all the pieces, which is awesome. 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:25.870 I didn’t think it would do that. So this really is that easy to recreate. 00:02:25.870 --> 00:02:33.480 Let’s compare. Hm. Yeah. It’s like the original, but definitely not the same. But 00:02:33.480 --> 00:02:37.609 the Block Load filter will pixelate your art and make the edges fuzzy, and it’s so easy 00:02:37.609 --> 00:02:41.510 to do. Drag and drop and fiddle with two control options. Simple. 00:02:41.510 --> 00:02:46.939 Pff. And here I thought I’d have to export all of these different layers from Flash independently 00:02:46.939 --> 00:02:51.219 so I could individually control fuzziness levels on each piece. 00:02:51.219 --> 00:02:59.489 How about attempting method two? This time I’ll use the Flash CC brush library to get 00:02:59.489 --> 00:03:00.939 fuzzy outlines. 00:03:00.939 --> 00:03:09.629 Make the line thicker and try a couple of brushes here. This one is pretty close. This 00:03:09.629 --> 00:03:11.569 is the one. Fuzzy all around. 00:03:11.569 --> 00:03:17.219 Now to draw the character, delete the overshot lines, change the fill and line color. Done. 00:03:17.219 --> 00:03:26.060 I have a very nice lineless, fuzzy edged character now. The brush library in Flash is great - the 00:03:26.060 --> 00:03:33.370 only problem is that it is very hard on your computer. I’m getting a lag because of this 00:03:33.370 --> 00:03:41.719 simple drawing. Strange that it’s not affecting drawing, only when I pan, zoom, or move around. 00:03:41.719 --> 00:03:48.569 Well, call me surprised. I didn’t think either of those two methods would give very 00:03:48.569 --> 00:03:56.299 good results, but they did. Only one more thing to try now, the most time consuming 00:03:56.299 --> 00:04:03.059 method to do: animate the basics in Flash, export every single frame, draw the actual 00:04:03.059 --> 00:04:07.129 animation in Photoshop, and then import the sequence of frames into After Effects. Or 00:04:07.129 --> 00:04:11.840 animate directly in Photoshop. Yikes. But I have a sneaking suspicion this may be the 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:18.090 answer because of the quality of certain lines on closeup shots. See the semitransparent 00:04:18.090 --> 00:04:23.710 tails on these necklace triangles? And these other brush imperfections? Those clues are 00:04:23.710 --> 00:04:26.410 like looking at wild Photoshop tracks in the mud. 00:04:26.410 --> 00:04:31.900 I already drew the smooth character, so I’ll “export the movie” now. If I had a whole 00:04:31.900 --> 00:04:38.190 animation in Flash, this would export every individual frame of the animation from every 00:04:38.190 --> 00:04:39.490 single scene. 00:04:39.490 --> 00:04:44.900 Okay, open it up in Photoshop. Honestly the best way to do this is probably open and paint 00:04:44.900 --> 00:04:50.169 each frame individually and save over it when finished, but I’m opening it as a movie 00:04:50.169 --> 00:04:50.419 clip. 00:04:50.419 --> 00:05:00.300 Now I’ll brush the lines with some different brush tools. Gotta find the right brush for this. 00:05:00.300 --> 00:05:03.479 There’s so many Photoshop brushes. I’m just going to use this one. Bah, doesn’t 00:05:03.479 --> 00:05:04.780 look right with pressure sensitivity. I’ll resort to my sketch brushes. 00:05:04.780 --> 00:05:09.180 Honestly why stick with fuzziness? Look at all the cool painting techniques you could 00:05:09.180 --> 00:05:14.449 do. Plus, if I were really going to animate in Photoshop, I would do sketches in Flash 00:05:14.449 --> 00:05:19.599 and then use those as a basis to draw and paint everything in Photoshop. I would not 00:05:19.599 --> 00:05:23.930 paint over a colored drawing like I’m doing here. 00:05:23.930 --> 00:05:29.210 Finished painting, export the frame, overwrite the original. I’ll overwrite frame 2 in 00:05:29.210 --> 00:05:36.449 this case. Open After Effects and import as a PNG sequence. There’s frame one and there’s 00:05:36.449 --> 00:05:40.120 frame two that I painted on. 00:05:40.120 --> 00:05:52.319 Yeah. Maybe Temmie Chang animated directly in Photoshop. I know the spells and special 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:59.139 effects are Flash because they are smooth. You can see the difference. And I know the 00:05:59.139 --> 00:06:04.889 backgrounds are Photoshop because they are painted. The real mystery is the characters, 00:06:04.889 --> 00:06:09.430 and what blend of programs she used to make them. 00:06:09.430 --> 00:06:16.349 This is what makes Scribble Kibble so difficult sometimes. There are many different ways to 00:06:16.349 --> 00:06:18.749 achieve the same result! 00:06:37.939 --> 00:06:42.460 My name is Reeve, I am almost 13 years old and I’m a professional artist, apparently. 00:06:42.460 --> 00:06:46.009 xD Anyways, I love your vids so so so much, they’ve 00:06:46.009 --> 00:06:51.069 helped me out a lot with animations! You are BY FAR one of my favourite channels! 00:06:51.569 --> 00:06:56.020 Hi Scribbles, my name is Madison. I made you this picture and I made you look really tough 00:06:56.020 --> 00:06:57.779 and cool. I hope you like it.