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Hey, this is a show. Here’s what it’s
called. It’s about animation. Today’s

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topic of choice is animating with vectors
versus animating with rasters. Now, if you

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don’t know what that means listen up!

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Raster based images are made out of pixels.
MS Paint, Photoshop, and pretty much the majority

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of drawing programs are raster based. The
important thing for animation about this is

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that with images made with raster programs
get more and more pixelly as you zoom in.

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That’s bad news for animation. It means
if you didn’t make your drawing big enough,

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when you go to zoom in, the quality is going
to be ptbbhphph. Bad.

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Which brings us to vector images. Vectors
are made out of math. The computer calculates

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what goes where, so you can zoom in or out
and the picture stays the same. This is great

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for animation, because you can move your camera
around and do whatever you want without worrying.

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You can distort the heck out of something,
and it's not going to get pixelly. See. Here's

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the difference.

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So then the question is why doesn’t every
animator use vectors? Ah, my answer to you

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is this episode’s featured animation, The
Bear King. Have a look.

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The Bear King is made purely out of raster
images. And this is where rasters dominate

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vectors: detail. Painted backgrounds, hand
drawn characters, things with edge, detail,

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painted effects, complex lighting and shading
- to accomplish that in a vector program is…

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difficult. It’s like comparing a painting
to paper craft. If you wanted to make the

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painting out of cut up pieces of paper, it
would take a very long time and in the end

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it still wouldn’t have the same feel as
the painting itself.

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And The Bear King’s backgrounds are all
painted in Photoshop. Ah, but that’s not

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all! Notice how these pieces are independent
from the main background? How the camera is

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zooming in here, but the trees don’t turn
into pixels? That’s because animator Kristin

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Rakochy planned these shots. She knew the
biggest the tree needed to be was this much,

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so she drew it that big. Then she was able
to zoom out to here. And that's where the

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zooming starts. See, zooming out with a raster
is fine. No pixelation for zooming out. The

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problem is when you zoom in to larger than
100% of the original drawing, and then it...

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it.. like look at what I’m doing right now.
See. I’m doing it. But I’m a vector, so

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you can get as close as you want - OH GEEZE
come on! Not that close. I know it’s the

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internet and everything, but personal space.
Sheesh.

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The characters in The Bear King are also rasters.
In fact, they are all hand drawn on paper,

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scanned into the computer, and then colored
in ToonBoom Harmony. Again, this is fine,

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as long as the drawings on the paper are big
enough for your animation. If they’re bigger

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than needed after scanning it’s easy to
scale them down on the computer. So bigger

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is better. With rasters, yeah. Better to draw
too big than to draw too small.

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I really wish we could get a 1080 or even
720 resolution of The Bear King. I want to

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see this spectacular scene transition sharp
and clear, without the blurriness! (sigh)

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By the way, the style of Kristin’s hand
drawn animation is what gives the characters

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that raw edgy look to them. Even when they’re
standing still the lines are moving. It’s

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a technique that is time consuming because
when the character isn’t moving you still

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have to draw it again anyway so the lines
around it are different every time and they

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keep changing to give you that effect.

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In terms of the story of the video, what I
want to know is - which animal is this guy?

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Or does he not have an animal side?

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That’s all for now. See you next week.