WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:04.330 --> 00:00:10.140 Welcome to a spoilerless episode of Scribble Kibble, a show all about animation and how 00:00:10.140 --> 00:00:11.140 it’s made. 00:00:11.140 --> 00:00:13.110 This episode of Scribble Kibble is brought to you by… you. 00:00:13.110 --> 00:00:14.110 That’s right, you. 00:00:14.110 --> 00:00:15.110 You’re the greatest! 00:00:15.110 --> 00:00:17.990 Yes, you’re the greatest in the galaxy! 00:00:17.990 --> 00:00:23.940 And Wander Over Yonder is probably cartoon with the highest quality animation on TV right 00:00:23.940 --> 00:00:24.940 now. 00:00:24.940 --> 00:00:27.340 Or was, I suppose, since it’s over and I’m so sad. 00:00:27.340 --> 00:00:29.740 AAAAHHGH I’m so sad. 00:00:29.740 --> 00:00:35.050 The animation is a love song to the 80’s with that era’s bizarre color choices, black 00:00:35.050 --> 00:00:41.260 lines, and minimalist design but with all of the power of modern digital animation software. 00:00:41.260 --> 00:00:47.430 And the writing is so snappy, so clever, so funny, and on occasion shocking and intense. 00:00:47.430 --> 00:00:49.620 I admit, I cried once. 00:00:49.620 --> 00:00:51.590 It was an episode about Sylvia. 00:00:51.590 --> 00:00:57.080 The characters are fun and I love them, but the animation, the animation!... 00:00:57.080 --> 00:01:02.809 The people making Wander Over Yonder really understand how animation can put zing into 00:01:02.809 --> 00:01:06.220 a joke in a way no other art form can. 00:01:06.220 --> 00:01:10.570 There’s one episode where the main characters spend 15 minutes trapped in a blank white 00:01:10.570 --> 00:01:12.250 space where they can do anything. 00:01:12.250 --> 00:01:16.110 It’s a real treat to watch the animators go crazy with it. 00:01:16.110 --> 00:01:21.740 The production team uses Toon Boom Harmony to make the animation. 00:01:21.740 --> 00:01:25.500 This newest version of Toon Boom has a special engine for dealing with puppets. 00:01:25.500 --> 00:01:30.820 If you’ve seen The Lion Guard, Disneys’ spin off Lion King TV series, it also uses 00:01:30.820 --> 00:01:33.060 this Toon Boom Harmony technique. 00:01:33.060 --> 00:01:37.530 But with Wander Over Yonder, instead of doing what you would normally do with a puppet, 00:01:37.530 --> 00:01:42.390 which is position the different static pieces, the studio takes the hand drawn pose sent 00:01:42.390 --> 00:01:47.390 to them and liquifies the puppet pieces, molding them to the shape of the storyboard drawing. 00:01:47.390 --> 00:01:49.050 It’s 2D sculpting. 00:01:49.050 --> 00:01:52.640 If you’ve seen the show everything is very droopy and smooth. 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:56.100 There are not very many hard edges or sharp points. 00:01:56.100 --> 00:02:01.299 While the show uses puppets, it’s not really much of a puppet show, since the artists redraw 00:02:01.299 --> 00:02:05.840 the puppets constantly to fit the storyboards they’re given, rather than reusing a puppet 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:07.040 that already exists. 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:08.040 Haha. 00:02:08.040 --> 00:02:11.000 Efficiency is not the idea here. 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:14.030 Really fun, energetic animation is. 00:02:14.030 --> 00:02:18.950 Now I will say when you hit Season Two, the is a sudden noticeable drop in animation quality. 00:02:18.950 --> 00:02:23.700 It looks and feels very much like your typical puppet cartoon. 00:02:23.700 --> 00:02:28.150 As the season progresses it gets markedly better and catches up quality-wise after a 00:02:28.150 --> 00:02:34.200 few episodes, but it still feels different from what they had going on in season one. 00:02:34.200 --> 00:02:37.620 I’m not sure what caused the change. 00:02:37.620 --> 00:02:41.840 Budget cuts, time cuts, changes in the workflow, switching production studios, it could be 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:43.190 any number of things. 00:02:43.190 --> 00:02:48.030 It’s not that uncommon for animation styles to change between seasons. 00:02:48.030 --> 00:02:52.530 We’re lucky because some of the animation notes for Wander Over Yonder are floating 00:02:52.530 --> 00:02:53.820 around the internet. 00:02:53.820 --> 00:02:59.630 This sort of reference sheet, or show bible, is very useful when you’re trying to learn 00:02:59.630 --> 00:03:01.010 about animation. 00:03:01.010 --> 00:03:06.590 I greatly appreciate that the show has its own animation mechanic, which they call the 00:03:06.590 --> 00:03:08.840 Lava Lamp or Lava Theory. 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:12.140 Gravity acts on the characters as if they were full of water. 00:03:12.140 --> 00:03:13.650 Especially Sylvia. 00:03:13.650 --> 00:03:15.900 Her snout is always flopping around. 00:03:15.900 --> 00:03:19.930 Some of the highlights here are the rules of appeal for each character that show how 00:03:19.930 --> 00:03:24.150 to draw them so they look their best, and the fact that when you draw Lord Hater you’re 00:03:24.150 --> 00:03:29.050 supposed to start with the emotion, not the construction lines (which are the circles 00:03:29.050 --> 00:03:32.030 and lines you see in most artist’s rough sketches). 00:03:32.030 --> 00:03:37.290 That explains why he has the most spontaneous, exaggerated posing out of any of the other 00:03:37.290 --> 00:03:38.290 characters. 00:03:38.290 --> 00:03:41.260 I’ll link the animation sheets below if you want to look at them. 00:03:41.260 --> 00:03:45.480 And on that note, I’ve got just one last thing to say. 00:03:45.480 --> 00:03:46.480 AAAAAGH! 00:03:46.480 --> 00:03:48.500 Animation is so hard. 00:03:48.500 --> 00:04:04.099 People who do this for a living deserve more credit and respect. 00:04:04.099 --> 00:04:07.050 I have a feeling there might be some first-time Scribble Kibble viewers. 00:04:07.050 --> 00:04:10.489 Shout out in the comments section if this is your first episode! 00:04:10.489 --> 00:04:13.420 My favorite Wander Over Yonder character is actually Commander Peepers haha. 00:04:13.420 --> 00:04:14.420 Along with Lord Hater. 00:04:14.420 --> 00:04:15.700 What’s on screen now is art people sent in. 00:04:15.700 --> 00:04:18.690 A good amount of it is way beyond what I can illustrate. 00:04:18.690 --> 00:04:20.070 I mean, look at this. 00:04:20.070 --> 00:04:21.070 Wow. 00:04:21.070 --> 00:04:24.449 You know, one thing I hear artists say a lot is they can’t come up with their own art 00:04:24.449 --> 00:04:29.159 style, but when I look at each piece of art here I can see the style in it already. 00:04:29.159 --> 00:04:31.610 Notice how Reuben’s lines don’t connect. 00:04:31.610 --> 00:04:35.539 Neither do Tyler’s, but the look and feel is very different. 00:04:35.539 --> 00:04:39.240 And here’s the sketchy outline style of TheEchoThatLasts. 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:47.059 Plus everybody has their own way of drawing eyes 00:04:47.059 --> 00:04:48.059 and noses. 00:04:48.059 --> 00:04:49.059 That’s all for today. 00:04:49.059 --> 00:04:53.250 Come back next Friday for a new 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