WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.020 Hey, let's keep on a roll with last week's themes! 00:00:03.020 --> 00:00:07.859 Children, treasure, dragons, dying. Yeah. Woo death! 00:00:07.859 --> 00:00:08.859 Woo! 00:00:08.859 --> 00:00:13.480 Welcome back to Scribble Kibble, your weekly source of animation tidbits. Yes, whether 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:17.430 you're learning about animation or you want to watch animations or you want to listen 00:00:17.430 --> 00:00:23.619 to the smooth saucy sidle of my silly voice, grab a snack or a drink, sit down and enjoy. 00:00:23.619 --> 00:00:28.730 Or listen on your headphones while doing an intense workout. You decide! 00:00:28.730 --> 00:00:33.899 So the theme of today's animation is very similar to last week's Reversal of the Heart, 00:00:33.899 --> 00:00:40.040 but this animation is rougher in terms of the artwork. It's called Unicorn's Fortune. 00:00:40.040 --> 00:00:44.450 And it's your fortune to decide whether or not you want to watch it before I explain 00:00:44.450 --> 00:00:48.010 it. Here's the link. 00:00:48.010 --> 00:00:52.739 It's funny how mad everyone gets at the ending. How could the unicorn choose the crown over 00:00:52.739 --> 00:00:53.739 its family! 00:00:53.739 --> 00:00:54.739 Bad! 00:00:54.739 --> 00:00:55.739 Bad unicorn! 00:00:55.739 --> 00:01:00.690 But this is a classic story of choice and consequence. The choices we make and the results 00:01:00.690 --> 00:01:05.530 they will have – it's not always so obvious until it's too late. 00:01:05.530 --> 00:01:06.530 So guess what! 00:01:06.530 --> 00:01:11.600 This is animated in GIMP, which is a free drawing program. Now, even though this is 00:01:11.600 --> 00:01:16.680 a finished animation, the interesting thing is it's still pretty rough. While these gray 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:21.150 lines may look like shading, they are actually the construction lines for the final artwork. 00:01:21.150 --> 00:01:25.330 You see stuff like this when an animator is planning the motion of something so that it 00:01:25.330 --> 00:01:30.619 looks natural when the final black line is put down. Usually the construction lines are 00:01:30.619 --> 00:01:35.619 made up of circles and straight lines. Like a skeleton the animator can follow. When the 00:01:35.619 --> 00:01:40.409 final lines are done, the animator deletes the construction lines. For some reason this 00:01:40.409 --> 00:01:44.869 time they chose to leave them in. So we get to look at them and see how it works. 00:01:44.869 --> 00:01:49.720 There are some noticeable time saving measures in the animation too, like – sliding a still 00:01:49.720 --> 00:01:54.720 image from one spot to the next, copying the same head for this walk cycle instead of drawing 00:01:54.720 --> 00:01:59.860 a new one each time, and animating mostly in black and white. When your project has 00:01:59.860 --> 00:02:05.380 a deadline but includes things like animating an Eastern style dragon flying, you have to 00:02:05.380 --> 00:02:08.179 figure out what you can do to save time elsewhere. 00:02:08.179 --> 00:02:12.150 If you take a look at Unicorn's Fortune and some of the animator's other videos, it's 00:02:12.150 --> 00:02:17.780 pretty clear they are very good at building and using anatomy. So even though the unicorns 00:02:17.780 --> 00:02:21.510 and the dragon are moving all over the place through different angles and perspectives, 00:02:21.510 --> 00:02:27.590 their skeletal structure stays consistent. This is called staying on model. It's something 00:02:27.590 --> 00:02:31.269 I'm terrible at, so don't look at my art to get better at it. Every time I draw something 00:02:31.269 --> 00:02:35.209 its legs are longer or shorter than they were the last time, or something is just different. 00:02:35.209 --> 00:02:36.209 Oh! 00:02:36.209 --> 00:02:40.230 Making a character reference sheet, or a 3D object you can turn around in your hand for 00:02:40.230 --> 00:02:44.879 seeing what it looks like at different angles will help you stay on model. And drawing rough 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:48.950 construction lines. That'll help you too. It's just ways to make sure your character 00:02:48.950 --> 00:02:53.781 looks the same and has the same patterns and markings and muscles from whichever way you 00:02:53.781 --> 00:02:56.080 look at it and no matter how it's moving. 00:02:56.080 --> 00:03:02.370 The animator of Unicorn's Fortune has a slew of mini animation tutorials. I've put the 00:03:02.370 --> 00:03:08.430 playlist and a few of the most useful-slash-interesting ones below. In terms of animation their strongest 00:03:08.430 --> 00:03:14.159 points are character flow and anatomy, so if those are your weak spots take a look. 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:25.340 Thanks for watching. Tune in next week for more Scribble Kibble!