WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:02.850 --> 00:00:03.850 Eh? 00:00:03.850 --> 00:00:04.910 What’s this you’re reading? 00:00:04.910 --> 00:00:09.680 Let me tell you about a real hero. 00:00:09.680 --> 00:00:12.949 Tarboy. 00:00:12.949 --> 00:00:17.650 Tarboy was animated in 2009 and the fact it looks like this using only an old version 00:00:17.650 --> 00:00:20.730 of Flash is nothing short of a miracle. 00:00:20.730 --> 00:00:25.480 Actually it’s a heroic feat to make this type of scene in any version of Flash. 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:28.180 More on special effects in a minute. 00:00:28.180 --> 00:00:29.860 Let’s start with character animation. 00:00:29.860 --> 00:00:32.149 This is the easiest part to understand. 00:00:32.149 --> 00:00:36.359 As I’ve said before, the art is so clean and the animation so smooth because these 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:37.960 characters are puppets. 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:40.469 They are piles of static pieces. 00:00:40.469 --> 00:00:42.760 Each individual piece can be moved. 00:00:42.760 --> 00:00:47.699 Now the reason Tarboy doesn’t look as flat as a typical puppet animation is first, because 00:00:47.699 --> 00:00:52.800 James Lee also did quite a bit of frame by frame drawing, where each shape is original. 00:00:52.800 --> 00:01:00.839 This sneak, for instance, the head is the same piece but each leg is a new drawing. 00:01:00.839 --> 00:01:05.140 The second reason the animation looks great is because each shot is either slathered in 00:01:05.140 --> 00:01:09.770 light and shadow or it has a murderously good use of negative space. 00:01:09.770 --> 00:01:15.220 Positive space is your character, negative space is everything else. 00:01:15.220 --> 00:01:23.799 Knowing that, you can build incredibly effective animations using only two colors. 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:30.439 There’s been a bit of argument about whether the effects are After Effects or Flash. 00:01:30.439 --> 00:01:31.920 It’s Flash. 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:33.020 You want proof? 00:01:33.020 --> 00:01:36.549 Tell me when this gets blurry. 00:01:36.549 --> 00:01:37.720 It doesn’t. 00:01:37.720 --> 00:01:38.720 Flash. 00:01:38.720 --> 00:01:41.360 There are three ways you can make something like this in Flash. 00:01:41.360 --> 00:01:43.960 The first is to draw it by hand. 00:01:43.960 --> 00:01:49.399 The second is to draw part of it by hand and use ActionScript code to animate it. 00:01:49.399 --> 00:01:53.710 A constant spray of particles is an example of something you can make with code and some 00:01:53.710 --> 00:01:54.710 shapes. 00:01:54.710 --> 00:01:58.450 The third is to download a plugin or copy somebody else’s code. 00:01:58.450 --> 00:02:03.070 It’s the same as method two, you just save yourself the coding step. 00:02:03.070 --> 00:02:09.350 Regardless of the method, most of the Tarboy effects are built either with streams of semitransparent 00:02:09.350 --> 00:02:15.070 polygons flowing and fading, or solid white shapes with colored, glowing edges. 00:02:15.070 --> 00:02:18.580 The mystery to me is the 3D coin here. 00:02:18.580 --> 00:02:22.170 Flash has 3D capabilities, but I’ve never used them. 00:02:22.170 --> 00:02:23.380 Not even once. 00:02:23.380 --> 00:02:33.930 Hey, no time like the present. 00:02:33.930 --> 00:02:48.290 PS, if you noticed the 3D models in James’ animation test reel, I think he used these 00:02:48.290 --> 00:02:52.930 as pose references. 00:02:52.930 --> 00:02:56.660 The only 3D part in Tarboy itself is the coin. 00:02:56.660 --> 00:03:00.430 If you’ve been a fan of this animation for a long time, you’ve probably hear about 00:03:00.430 --> 00:03:02.180 Tarboy 2. 00:03:02.180 --> 00:03:03.570 What happened to it? 00:03:03.570 --> 00:03:11.090 Well, there was a Tarboy video game in the works, but there were a bunch of legal issues 00:03:11.090 --> 00:03:16.620 and James Lee had to spend time fighting to get the video game rights back. 00:03:16.620 --> 00:03:23.340 It’s left such a bad taste in his mouth that he’s not working on any Tarboy right 00:03:23.340 --> 00:03:24.340 now. 00:03:24.340 --> 00:03:30.280 Despite that he did say he’d release an explanation video that includes Tarboy animations 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:32.730 he made but didn’t fully finish. 00:03:32.730 --> 00:03:44.160 We might see that by the end of the year, so here is his YouTube channel for subscribbling. 00:03:44.160 --> 00:03:54.080 Well folks, this is it. 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:57.410 The last “normal” Scribble Kibble episode this season. 00:03:57.410 --> 00:04:01.000 There will be a series break after episode fifty. 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:05.130 That should buy me the time I need to make a complete top to bottom course on animating 00:04:05.130 --> 00:04:16.230 in Flash. 00:04:16.230 --> 00:04:29.210 Anyway, stick around for something fun next week. 00:04:29.210 --> 00:04:32.160 Or join the Scribble Den and see everything early.