WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.179 --> 00:00:01.430 Hey, this is a show. 00:00:01.430 --> 00:00:02.430 Here’s what it’s called. 00:00:02.430 --> 00:00:03.889 It’s about animation. 00:00:03.889 --> 00:00:09.360 Today’s topic of choice is animating with vectors versus animating with rasters. 00:00:09.360 --> 00:00:14.020 Now, if you don’t know what that means listen up! 00:00:14.020 --> 00:00:15.970 Raster based images are made out of pixels. 00:00:15.970 --> 00:00:22.289 MS Paint, Photoshop, and pretty much the majority of drawing programs are raster based. 00:00:22.289 --> 00:00:27.340 The important thing for animation about this is that with images made with raster programs 00:00:27.340 --> 00:00:30.600 get more and more pixelly as you zoom in. 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:32.200 That’s bad news for animation. 00:00:32.200 --> 00:00:36.370 It means if you didn’t make your drawing big enough, when you go to zoom in, the quality 00:00:36.370 --> 00:00:38.040 is going to be ptbbhphph. 00:00:38.040 --> 00:00:39.040 Bad. 00:00:39.040 --> 00:00:41.470 Which brings us to vector images. 00:00:41.470 --> 00:00:43.640 Vectors are made out of math. 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:48.110 The computer calculates what goes where, so you can zoom in or out and the picture stays 00:00:48.110 --> 00:00:49.110 the same. 00:00:49.110 --> 00:00:53.710 This is great for animation, because you can move your camera around and do whatever you 00:00:53.710 --> 00:00:54.830 want without worrying. 00:00:54.830 --> 00:00:58.150 You can distort the heck out of something, and it's not going to get pixelly. 00:00:58.150 --> 00:00:59.150 See. 00:00:59.150 --> 00:01:00.320 Here's the difference. 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:04.190 So then the question is why doesn’t every animator use vectors? 00:01:04.190 --> 00:01:08.900 Ah, my answer to you is this episode’s featured animation, The Bear King. 00:01:08.900 --> 00:01:09.900 Have a look. 00:01:09.900 --> 00:01:16.030 The Bear King is made purely out of raster images. 00:01:16.030 --> 00:01:19.920 And this is where rasters dominate vectors: detail. 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:24.720 Painted backgrounds, hand drawn characters, things with edge, detail, painted effects, 00:01:24.720 --> 00:01:30.000 complex lighting and shading - to accomplish that in a vector program is… difficult. 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:34.299 It’s like comparing a painting to paper craft. 00:01:34.299 --> 00:01:38.540 If you wanted to make the painting out of cut up pieces of paper, it would take a very 00:01:38.540 --> 00:01:44.590 long time and in the end it still wouldn’t have the same feel as the painting itself. 00:01:44.590 --> 00:01:47.300 And The Bear King’s backgrounds are all painted in Photoshop. 00:01:47.300 --> 00:01:49.360 Ah, but that’s not all! 00:01:49.360 --> 00:01:51.729 Notice how these pieces are independent from the main background? 00:01:51.729 --> 00:01:56.120 How the camera is zooming in here, but the trees don’t turn into pixels? 00:01:56.120 --> 00:02:00.390 That’s because animator Kristin Rakochy planned these shots. 00:02:00.390 --> 00:02:05.079 She knew the biggest the tree needed to be was this much, so she drew it that big. 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:07.030 Then she was able to zoom out to here. 00:02:07.030 --> 00:02:09.189 And that's where the zooming starts. 00:02:09.189 --> 00:02:12.230 See, zooming out with a raster is fine. 00:02:12.230 --> 00:02:13.579 No pixelation for zooming out. 00:02:13.579 --> 00:02:18.329 The problem is when you zoom in to larger than 100% of the original drawing, and then 00:02:18.329 --> 00:02:20.690 it... it.. like look at what I’m doing right now. 00:02:20.690 --> 00:02:21.690 See. 00:02:21.690 --> 00:02:22.690 I’m doing it. 00:02:22.690 --> 00:02:25.689 But I’m a vector, so you can get as close as you want - OH GEEZE come on! 00:02:25.689 --> 00:02:26.689 Not that close. 00:02:26.689 --> 00:02:29.519 I know it’s the internet and everything, but personal space. 00:02:29.519 --> 00:02:30.699 Sheesh. 00:02:30.699 --> 00:02:33.400 The characters in The Bear King are also rasters. 00:02:33.400 --> 00:02:37.209 In fact, they are all hand drawn on paper, scanned into the computer, and then colored 00:02:37.209 --> 00:02:38.419 in ToonBoom Harmony. 00:02:38.419 --> 00:02:43.909 Again, this is fine, as long as the drawings on the paper are big enough for your animation. 00:02:43.909 --> 00:02:47.889 If they’re bigger than needed after scanning it’s easy to scale them down on the computer. 00:02:47.889 --> 00:02:49.519 So bigger is better. 00:02:49.519 --> 00:02:50.939 With rasters, yeah. 00:02:50.939 --> 00:02:54.449 Better to draw too big than to draw too small. 00:02:54.449 --> 00:02:59.969 I really wish we could get a 1080 or even 720 resolution of The Bear King. 00:02:59.969 --> 00:03:07.219 I want to see this spectacular scene transition sharp and clear, without the blurriness! (sigh) 00:03:07.219 --> 00:03:11.879 By the way, the style of Kristin’s hand drawn animation is what gives the characters 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:14.290 that raw edgy look to them. 00:03:14.290 --> 00:03:16.919 Even when they’re standing still the lines are moving. 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:21.029 It’s a technique that is time consuming because when the character isn’t moving 00:03:21.029 --> 00:03:25.479 you still have to draw it again anyway so the lines around it are different every time 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:28.769 and they keep changing to give you that effect. 00:03:28.769 --> 00:03:34.510 In terms of the story of the video, what I want to know is - which animal is this guy? 00:03:34.510 --> 00:03:37.150 Or does he not have an animal side? 00:03:37.150 --> 00:03:38.579 That’s all for now. 00:03:38.579 --> 00:03:39.239 See you next week.