1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,889 Hey, you ask and I deliver. This is Scribble Kibble! A weekly show about animations made 2 00:00:13,889 --> 00:00:15,320 by a silly animator. 3 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:20,160 This week I’ve decided to give in to peer pressure and disassemble the animation “Die 4 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:24,920 Young” by VivziePop. It’s a good animation. If you’ve been avoiding it because of the 5 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:30,310 song or because of the - well - the furries, steel yourself and just watch the video so 6 00:00:30,310 --> 00:00:31,380 we can move on. 7 00:00:31,380 --> 00:00:38,350 I think I saw this about a year ago when it first came out and I had two reactions: jealousy 8 00:00:38,350 --> 00:00:43,969 because of the fluid, lively frame-by-frame drawings, and disappointment because of the 9 00:00:43,969 --> 00:00:49,079 song choice. Not because the song irritates me or anything, but because I knew the video 10 00:00:49,079 --> 00:00:52,600 would get hit with copyright strikes pretty much as soon as it came out. 11 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:58,180 And that’s exactly what happened. The animation got removed as its popularity soared. But 12 00:00:58,180 --> 00:01:02,649 surprisingly this wasn’t because the record label said no, it was because someone filed 13 00:01:02,649 --> 00:01:07,869 a fake copyright claim on the video. Basically, if someone on the internet doesn’t like 14 00:01:07,869 --> 00:01:12,520 a YouTube video, they can make a fake account and file copyright strikes on the video in 15 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:13,930 order to get it removed. 16 00:01:13,930 --> 00:01:17,369 Yes it’s messed up. No, there's nothing we can do about it. 17 00:01:17,369 --> 00:01:22,240 The animation you just saw was removed, and everyone had to watch it on Vimeo while waiting 18 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:26,650 for YouTube to respond to the fake claim. It’s up now of course but I’m surprised 19 00:01:26,650 --> 00:01:30,770 since then it that hasn’t been flagged by the actual owners of the song and covered 20 00:01:30,770 --> 00:01:32,369 with advertisements. 21 00:01:32,369 --> 00:01:35,020 In other words, if you are an animator 22 00:01:35,020 --> 00:01:35,790 please 23 00:01:35,790 --> 00:01:36,560 PLEASE 24 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:40,979 use some of the great original music that won't get you into trouble, and that won’t 25 00:01:40,979 --> 00:01:42,909 make money for other people. 26 00:01:42,909 --> 00:01:47,320 VivziePop and the other artists who made the Die Young animation spent hundreds of hours 27 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:52,030 - easily thousands of dollars worth of their time - making this. It drives me nuts when 28 00:01:52,030 --> 00:01:56,950 I see music companies claim fan animations and make advertising revenue off of the insane 29 00:01:56,950 --> 00:01:59,100 amount of time animators spend. 30 00:01:59,100 --> 00:02:02,770 Of course the music company has every legal right to do this, since you are basically 31 00:02:02,770 --> 00:02:04,619 stealing their work, but 32 00:02:04,619 --> 00:02:06,219 Just- ugh- 33 00:02:06,219 --> 00:02:08,989 let’s talk about the artwork. 34 00:02:08,989 --> 00:02:14,660 So the thing that stands out to me the most about VivziePop's art is that she is a fantastic 35 00:02:14,660 --> 00:02:19,430 character designer. You can flip through her comic Zoophobia or the thumbnail grid on her 36 00:02:19,430 --> 00:02:23,599 YouTube channel and you will see what I am talking about because e character has a unique 37 00:02:23,599 --> 00:02:28,220 shape and an appealing color scheme. You can tell what the character’s personality is 38 00:02:28,220 --> 00:02:29,730 just by looking at them. 39 00:02:29,730 --> 00:02:35,410 And of course the character in Die Young is no exception. Her base colors of blue, blue, 40 00:02:35,410 --> 00:02:41,650 and blue would be really plain except for her red outfit, which is what makes the design 41 00:02:41,650 --> 00:02:47,430 pop. If the overalls were just more blue or a color close to blue, like purple, it wouldn’t 42 00:02:47,430 --> 00:02:53,769 stand out. And then after the blue and the red, the bits of gold accent the scheme. And 43 00:02:53,769 --> 00:02:57,830 that’s it: three base colors. If it were more than that it would be too much. Like 44 00:02:57,830 --> 00:03:02,069 if her eyes were green. That's just too much. Too many different colors not working together 45 00:03:02,069 --> 00:03:03,560 in that situation. 46 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:08,560 The character also has a strand of purple in her hair to define the bangs. Without the 47 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:11,980 purple her hair would just be a big poof. 48 00:03:11,980 --> 00:03:18,370 Overall this character design is too complicated for the average animation. Every earring, 49 00:03:18,370 --> 00:03:22,760 the gold tooth, all of these freckles, the white stripes on the ear tips, and the stripes 50 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:29,200 on the stocking have to be carefully placed and redrawn every single time. So seeing the 51 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:33,480 character move the way it does with all of this stuff on it is even more impressive. 52 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:36,720 Really. I don’t know how she keeps track of all these details. 53 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:54,099 Moving on to the animation process, the animation is drawn in a program we haven’t seen yet: 54 00:03:54,099 --> 00:05:02,850 TV Paint. I haven’t used this software myself, but I do know it is good for animations with 55 00:05:02,850 --> 00:05:02,850 more details and textures. It's kind of like animating in Photoshop. If you want to see 56 00:05:02,850 --> 00:05:02,850 what TV Paint can do, watch the movie Song of the Sea. And if you want to see what VivziePop’s 57 00:05:02,850 --> 00:05:02,850 animation process looks like, you can watch this video of hers. To sum up the process 58 00:05:02,850 --> 00:05:02,850 for Die Young, she starts with rough sketches of the motion. Then she draws the final line 59 00:05:02,850 --> 00:05:02,850 art over those sketches and deletes the sketches, colors every drawing in SAI Paint Tool, flips 60 00:05:02,850 --> 00:05:02,850 back to TV Paint and adds the shine to the overall buttons and jewelry, paints shading 61 00:05:02,850 --> 00:05:02,850 over each frame, and adds details like the white stripes to the ear tips. 62 00:05:02,850 --> 00:05:02,850 So the base coloring is done in SAI and then all of the details are added later in TV Paint. 63 00:05:02,850 --> 00:05:02,850 And that's what TV Paint is really good at: painting over your drawings like that. 64 00:05:02,850 --> 00:05:02,850 I’m a bit curious about the guest animators and the colorist mentioned at the end of the 65 00:05:02,850 --> 00:05:02,850 video. I bet we can go through and try to pick out what they did. So... lineless background 66 00:05:02,850 --> 00:05:02,850 characters here. These two cats here. Vivzie here is drawing the main character in this 67 00:05:02,850 --> 00:05:02,850 scene but probably not these lineless side characters. 68 00:05:02,850 --> 00:05:03,199 Although overall I’m going to say most of this is animated by Vivziepop. Otherwise we 69 00:05:03,199 --> 00:05:07,570 would proooobably notice. Not because any particular animator is better than the other, 70 00:05:07,570 --> 00:05:12,889 but because it takes a great deal of skill to perfectly copy another animator's style. 71 00:05:12,889 --> 00:05:18,430 Well, that ends the insight I wish to share on this animation. VivziePop is an independent 72 00:05:18,430 --> 00:05:22,949 animator with a degree from the School for Visual Arts in New York City. You can find 73 00:05:22,949 --> 00:05:26,120 links to her animations and all of that below. 74 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,930 Thanks for watching this episode of Scribble Kibble! The next episode is going to be a 75 00:05:29,930 --> 00:05:34,990 guest episode and it's going take me a bit longer to make. I hope you’ll be back for 76 00:05:34,990 --> 00:05:36,570 it in two weeks. Bye for now!