WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:11.550 Hey, you ask and I deliver. This is Scribble Kibble! 00:00:11.550 --> 00:00:15.320 A weekly show about animations made by a silly animator. 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:20.160 This week I’ve decided to give in to peer pressure and disassemble the animation “Die 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 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:30.310 song or because of the - well - the furries, steel yourself and just watch the video so 00:00:30.310 --> 00:00:31.380 we can move on. 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 00:00:38.350 --> 00:00:43.969 because of the fluid, lively frame-by-frame drawings, and disappointment because of the 00:00:43.969 --> 00:00:49.079 song choice. Not because the song irritates me or anything, but because I knew the video 00:00:49.079 --> 00:00:52.600 would get hit with copyright strikes pretty much as soon as it came out. 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:58.180 And that’s exactly what happened. The animation got removed as its popularity soared. But 00:00:58.180 --> 00:01:02.649 surprisingly this wasn’t because the record label said no, it was because someone filed 00:01:02.649 --> 00:01:07.869 a fake copyright claim on the video. Basically, if someone on the internet doesn’t like 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 00:01:12.520 --> 00:01:13.930 order to get it removed. 00:01:13.930 --> 00:01:17.369 Yes it’s messed up. No, there's nothing we can do about it. 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 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 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 00:01:30.770 --> 00:01:32.369 with advertisements. 00:01:32.369 --> 00:01:35.020 In other words, if you are an animator 00:01:35.020 --> 00:01:36.020 please 00:01:36.020 --> 00:01:37.020 PLEASE 00:01:37.020 --> 00:01:40.979 use some of the great original music that won't get you into trouble, and that won’t 00:01:40.979 --> 00:01:42.909 make money for other people. 00:01:42.909 --> 00:01:47.320 VivziePop and the other artists who made the Die Young animation spent hundreds of hours 00:01:47.320 --> 00:01:52.030 - easily thousands of dollars worth of their time - making this. It drives me nuts when 00:01:52.030 --> 00:01:56.950 I see music companies claim fan animations and make advertising revenue off of the insane 00:01:56.950 --> 00:01:59.100 amount of time animators spend. 00:01:59.100 --> 00:02:02.770 Of course the music company has every legal right to do this, since you are basically 00:02:02.770 --> 00:02:04.619 stealing their work, but 00:02:04.619 --> 00:02:06.219 Just- ugh- 00:02:06.219 --> 00:02:08.989 let’s talk about the artwork. 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 00:02:14.660 --> 00:02:19.430 character designer. You can flip through her comic Zoophobia or the thumbnail grid on her 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 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:28.220 shape and an appealing color scheme. You can tell what the character’s personality is 00:02:28.220 --> 00:02:29.730 just by looking at them. 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, 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 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 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 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 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 00:03:02.069 --> 00:03:03.560 in that situation. 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 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:11.980 purple her hair would just be a big poof. 00:03:11.980 --> 00:03:18.370 Overall this character design is too complicated for the average animation. Every earring, 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 00:03:22.760 --> 00:03:29.200 on the stocking have to be carefully placed and redrawn every single time. So seeing the 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. 00:03:33.480 --> 00:03:36.720 Really. I don’t know how she keeps track of all these details. 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: 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 00:05:02.850 --> 00:05:03.850 more details and textures. It's kind of like animating in Photoshop. If you want to see 00:05:03.850 --> 00:05:04.850 what TV Paint can do, watch the movie Song of the Sea. And if you want to see what VivziePop’s 00:05:04.850 --> 00:05:05.850 animation process looks like, you can watch this video of hers. To sum up the process 00:05:05.850 --> 00:05:06.850 for Die Young, she starts with rough sketches of the motion. Then she draws the final line 00:05:06.850 --> 00:05:07.850 art over those sketches and deletes the sketches, colors every drawing in SAI Paint Tool, flips 00:05:07.850 --> 00:05:08.850 back to TV Paint and adds the shine to the overall buttons and jewelry, paints shading 00:05:08.850 --> 00:05:09.850 over each frame, and adds details like the white stripes to the ear tips. 00:05:09.850 --> 00:05:10.850 So the base coloring is done in SAI and then all of the details are added later in TV Paint. 00:05:10.850 --> 00:05:11.850 And that's what TV Paint is really good at: painting over your drawings like that. 00:05:11.850 --> 00:05:12.850 I’m a bit curious about the guest animators and the colorist mentioned at the end of the 00:05:12.850 --> 00:05:13.850 video. I bet we can go through and try to pick out what they did. So... lineless background 00:05:13.850 --> 00:05:14.850 characters here. These two cats here. Vivzie here is drawing the main character in this 00:05:14.850 --> 00:05:15.850 scene but probably not these lineless side characters. 00:05:15.850 --> 00:05:16.850 Although overall I’m going to say most of this is animated by Vivziepop. Otherwise we 00:05:16.850 --> 00:05:17.850 would proooobably notice. Not because any particular animator is better than the other, 00:05:17.850 --> 00:05:18.850 but because it takes a great deal of skill to perfectly copy another animator's style. 00:05:18.850 --> 00:05:19.850 Well, that ends the insight I wish to share on this animation. VivziePop is an independent 00:05:19.850 --> 00:05:22.949 animator with a degree from the School for Visual Arts in New York City. You can find 00:05:22.949 --> 00:05:26.120 links to her animations and all of that below. 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:28.289 Thanks for watching this episode of Scribble Kibble! 00:05:28.289 --> 00:05:33.729 The next episode is going to be a guest episode and it's going take me a bit longer to make. 00:05:33.729 --> 00:05:36.570 I hope you’ll be back for it in two weeks. Bye for now!