I don’t know how many times I watched the first episode of There She Is when I was a
lovesick teenager.
I had no reason to believe there would be more, but two years later a second part came
out.
Eventually there were five episodes.
I’m going to focus on the first one, with no spoilers for the others.
But in case you want, here are all five, totaling 20 minutes.
The series is a lot of fun, and despite There She Is being 13 years old, it is the most
requested Scribble Kibble feature.
The cartoon is made in Flash.
You might have noticed I linked the remastered version.
The original is a bit rougher.
By comparison, the hearts are redone.
The camera movement is a bit more complex in the remaster, and there are many more drop
shadows in the remaster.
There are a lot of little adjustments that you might not notice (show examples).
That’s the neat thing about old Flash animations.
Since most Flash animations are vector drawings, it’s easy to resize them for bigger, HD
screen sizes, even if you drew it originally for a tiny screen size.
If There She Is had been hand drawn pencil, the HD version would look fuzzy unless the
artists spent a lot of time on handmade adjustments - which is what Disney had to do to remaster
its old movies.
I’ll tell you about it some time.
Three professional Korean artists make the There She Is animations under the name SamBakZa.
The animations are actually inspired by comics one of the artists made.
I haven’t read them, but you can see where the style for the animation came from.
In Flash, the character outlines are made with the pen tool.
That’s why they have uniform thickness.
It is also why the backgrounds have wobbly lines, because when you freehand with the
pen tool on a tablet the results are junk.
The characters’ lines are very smooth because the animators used the pen tool’s anchor
points and bezier curves.
The sky in many of the shots is not made in Flash.
It is either handmade and scanned, or done in a digital painting program.
That image is then imported into Flash.
As for these soft glow effects and the drop shadows, you can do that in Flash by turning
the shape into a movie clip and then adding a filter.
You can achieve shading like on this tree with a gradient fill.
These speed lines in the original 2003 version are simple Flash lines.
But in the remaster they look like either Flash CS6 Brush Library strokes, or a layover
drawn in a painting program.
As for the camera movements, there are two common ways to do it directly in Flash.
First is to copy all of the layers for a scene and turn them into a symbol or movie clip
and tween it around.
Second is to download a virtual camera for Flash, and tween that around.
When you export your animation, it will only show what is inside this virtual camera box.
Those are the techniques that SamBakZa used to make There She Is.
And guess what, it’s 2016, and a sixth episode of There She Is starring certain supporting
characters will be coming out at the end of the year.
Did you see the last episode?
Here’s the answer from Temmie Chang herself about how she made Potion Shop!
Flash to Photoshop to After Effects.
My last guesstimate was right on the money, woo-woo.
Right on the money.
Your turn to guess.
Guess how many months behind I am on fan art?
Yeaaah.
I got these pieces three months ago.
I’m doing my best to keep up!
I kind of like this idea that Scribbles is huge and Crowne Prince is tiny.
Resumed-Bby has the actual size comparison about right, though.
But it’s art!
So you can draw them however you like.