Let's animation!
I was wandering around the Internets (like I do every day) and I came across this. Thought it was interesting and thought I should share.
+ You think about the how many frames it would take to animate when you see your friends walking. - Not so much frames, but just observing how people walk.
+ A bouncing ball is much more complicated than it looks. - Squash and stretch are your friends!
+ Besides the 'compelling storylines', anime really does suck - Eh, I’d have to sort of disagree with this one. True, there is a lot of really shitty designs and animation in anime, and there’s a lot that I really despise, but there’s some pretty stuff, too. I went through a very short anime phase in high school/college, so I only have a very small amount of shows/movies that I absolutely adore.
+ MAYA is not just the name of a girl you know. - I don’t know anyone named Maya. But I do hate Maya with a passion.
+ Same goes for BRYCE. - Or Bryce.
+ When teachers draw stick figures, you doubt their teaching ability. - Unless they can actually animate a stick figure beautifully. Then I’d approve.
+ When you are used to hearing gasps when you tell people exactly how long it took you to animate 'those 15 seconds'. - Eh, it depends on what you’re animating. For instance, I’m animating 10-15 seconds a day (that’s a good day, mind you), but it’s a very symbol-based show, so there’s cheating. When I was working on “Three Delivery”, it took me over a month to animate a minute of action-oriented animation, but that was because all the bodies in that show were traditionally drawn (just digitally rather than paper). The heads were all symbol, so that helps.
+ Disney is a building full of gods.
+ You know who Glen Keane, Andreas Deja, Ub Iwerks, and Bill Plympton are. - I have a signed DVD plus doodle from Mr. Plympton. I met him at NYCC a couple of years ago.
+ Paper dominates everything else in your room. - WHAT IS PAPER, PRECIOUS. I have been digital for years (and sometimes, that makes me very sad).
+ You are always think of new things to animate, even while animating something else. - Oh, yeesh. So very true. Mostly, it’s fanart, and mostly, it’s Doctor Who, which in the grand scheme of things is bad. If I’m doing a run cycle for the show, I’m thinking in my head “Well, the Tenth Doctor holds himself more upright when he runs and wouldn’t it be fab to animate his coat and -- STOP STOP STOP THINKING SUCH NONSENSE.” I am, however, thinking of stuff to do for “Taylor the Latte Boy”. Once Babiez is finished, I think I’m going to start actual production on Taylor. I’ll need to redo some of the storyboards because looking back on it now, EGADS.
+ Drawing 200 drawings in one night is not that uncommon for you. - Actually, that’s very uncommon for me. I’m not that fast.
+ Hearing the word 'Modeling' does not make you think of photographing advertisements.
+ Hearing "Flash" has no sexual connotation. - It does, however, give me a nervous twitch.
+ Hidden Mickeys are everywhere. - Yes, they are. My personal favorite is the talking skull in Pirates of the Caribbean at Disneyland. The indentations on either side of his tricorn hat create very subtle mouse ears.
+ You know exactly why the Disney sequels suck. - I BEG TO DIFFER. They are awesomely bad. There is a difference.
+ You know what PSD, MOV, AVI, and AEP files are. - Um, doesn’t everyone?
+ Tarzan is the greatest musculature ever. - He's quite ripped.
+ Not going to sleep all night is not unusual. - Well, I’m an insomniac, sooo…
+ You hate X-sheets, but you know if you don't use them, it will all fall apart. -You know what? Four years of college, three years working professionally. Have never used an X-sheet.
+ Damn $500 hole punches. - HAAAAAAAAAAAAAR. There was only one good hole punch at Monty. I coveted it lots.
+ You can see the color change in Ratigan’s Cape (Great Mouse Detective) as he moves and changes layers. - Having just recently rewatched “Great Mouse Detective”, yes!
+ Flash really is a bitch. - Yes, but she’s my bitch.
+ You can easily convince people to let you draw them. - Or they just come up to me before introducing themselves and demand a drawing of them. Tony…
+ People act like your career choice is awesome, but you know they are thinking "Where the hell is the money in animation". - What money?! WHAT. MONEY.
+ You can find the 'soul' in Sully's eyes... but Polar Express looks like a scene from 'The Exorcist'. - Or how Davy Jones’ eyes looks eerily like Bill Nighy’s, even though Davy Jones is 100% CG. I had a hard time believing it myself.
+ You never want to hear how many individual hairs were rendered in Sully fur, or feathers on Chicken Little... ever again. - Oh man, when I was at SIGGRAPH many moons ago, I got to play with some Chicken Little rigs. They were sooooooo much fun.
+ CGI is not as easy as people make it sound. - Fuck CG. I can’t do it. It took me days to animate a fucking bouncing ball, whereas I could have done it on paper within minutes.
+ Neither is timing out the damn lip sync. - Unless, of course, you’re doing it in Flash. Then it’s the EASSSSSSSSSSSIEST thing in the world.
+ There is no greater joy than watching what you just drew nonstop for a month come to life. - Not just that, but your director doesn’t give you any notes on it. Notes are good an all, but there’s that teeny bit of happiness that what you turn in is absolutely satisfactory. Or, by that point, he just doesn’t care anymore, but we won’t go into that.
+ Someone asks you what you thought of an animated film and you comment on the animation techniques. - I was doing it for “The Princess and the Frog” the other night!
+ You watch Fantasia especially for Night On Bald Mountain and think wish I could animate like Bill Tytla. - Has always been my favorite of Fantasia, followed closely by the Pastoral Symphony.
+ You skip the “Night On Bald Mountain” because you are just jaw droppingly shocked at how much detail has gone into and how well animated the whole thing is. - Why is this one following after the one where you watch “Night on Bald Mountain”? IT’S INCREDIBLE, WHY WOULD I SKIP IT.
+ You think Fantasia is one of the best animated films ever despite your friends moaning that it has a soundtrack of classical music. - Fantasia is AMAZING. I want to watch Fantasia RIGHT NOW.
+ You watch a cartoon on TV and start noticing repeated frames or backgrounds with ease. - Well, watching old Flintstones and Scooby Doo where they’re just running down endless hallways, it’s kind of hard not to.
+ You know that Tim Burton started as an animator for “The Fox And The Hound”. - Yep.
+ You know that Tim Burton worked on “The Black Cauldron”. - Yep
+ You know that “Vincent” was Tim Burton's first success at stop motion. - Yep.
+ You know Tim Burton did not direct Nightmare Before Christmas… OR… Coraline. Tim Burton had nothing to do with Coraline! Henry Selick, yo.
+ You know that Don Bluth walked out (with over 30 other members of staff) halfway through The Fox and The Hound. - Yep.
+ You know a Mac is what you really want to be using. - Eh. I’m quite fine with my Duggan here.
+ You refuse to watch any movies by Don Bluth because face it... they are awful. - Says you! I quite enjoy Don Bluth movies, but there is a certain style of animation that always shows up and it annoys the shit out of me.
+ You want Tim Curry or Jim Cummings to voice a villain in a film of yours because they are just brilliant. - Yes, unless Jim Cummings does a Cajun accent. Then I just staaaaaaaaay away.
+ You demand to know why Basil of Baker Street : The Great Mouse Detective is such an under-appreciated film. Also Vincent Price makes a brilliant villain. - YES I DEMAND THIS REASON.
+ You want to cry when you hear the words from your tutor "it's good but if you re-do this bit" with the knowledge that you have just drawn, fine lined, scanned, colored and edited together at least a minute's rough cut. - You guys know that ad they play in front of movies where it’s some CG hedgehog and the producers or financers are like “Yeah, that’s great, but could we put a hat or pants or whatever on him, that’d be better?” And then it goes to the animators and they’re all “FUCK YOU”. Yeah. I looooooove when that happens.
+ You say you do animation and your friends who don't do it say "are you mad? how can you stand drawing that much?"
+ You try to be sneaky in using repeated frames and hope nobody notices. - ALL THE TIME.
+ You spend a lot of time listening to music while coming up with concept art or waiting for rendering. - Or DVDs. I’m getting sick of everything that I own.
+ Someone (from outside the knowledge of animation) looks at your work and goes ''is that it?'' despite the fact you have just been spending at least 7 hrs a day for 15 weeks working on it and you feel the sudden urge to thump them. - I’d like to do more than thump them.
+ You have practically no social life when animating during crunch time. - You guys have noticed I’m not posting lots, yes? Or doing anything aside from drawing all day, all night?
+ Looney Tunes not only make you laugh, but the artwork and animation is draw you back to watch again and again. - I was quite depressed to go to school and find out that not a lot of people grew up watching Looney Tunes and weren’t big fans. They are AWESOME.
+ Anything.... literally anything... can happen. =^^=
And basalt and I were trying to psyche ourselves up for animating yesterday, because, let’s face it, it’s the holidays and I need a break from working. So she drew this for us for inspiration, and I need to pimp its awesomeness (click for bigger!):
And yes, she did animate, too! No slacking off there! UNLIKE ME.
+ You think about the how many frames it would take to animate when you see your friends walking. - Not so much frames, but just observing how people walk.
+ A bouncing ball is much more complicated than it looks. - Squash and stretch are your friends!
+ Besides the 'compelling storylines', anime really does suck - Eh, I’d have to sort of disagree with this one. True, there is a lot of really shitty designs and animation in anime, and there’s a lot that I really despise, but there’s some pretty stuff, too. I went through a very short anime phase in high school/college, so I only have a very small amount of shows/movies that I absolutely adore.
+ MAYA is not just the name of a girl you know. - I don’t know anyone named Maya. But I do hate Maya with a passion.
+ Same goes for BRYCE. - Or Bryce.
+ When teachers draw stick figures, you doubt their teaching ability. - Unless they can actually animate a stick figure beautifully. Then I’d approve.
+ When you are used to hearing gasps when you tell people exactly how long it took you to animate 'those 15 seconds'. - Eh, it depends on what you’re animating. For instance, I’m animating 10-15 seconds a day (that’s a good day, mind you), but it’s a very symbol-based show, so there’s cheating. When I was working on “Three Delivery”, it took me over a month to animate a minute of action-oriented animation, but that was because all the bodies in that show were traditionally drawn (just digitally rather than paper). The heads were all symbol, so that helps.
+ Disney is a building full of gods.
+ You know who Glen Keane, Andreas Deja, Ub Iwerks, and Bill Plympton are. - I have a signed DVD plus doodle from Mr. Plympton. I met him at NYCC a couple of years ago.
+ Paper dominates everything else in your room. - WHAT IS PAPER, PRECIOUS. I have been digital for years (and sometimes, that makes me very sad).
+ You are always think of new things to animate, even while animating something else. - Oh, yeesh. So very true. Mostly, it’s fanart, and mostly, it’s Doctor Who, which in the grand scheme of things is bad. If I’m doing a run cycle for the show, I’m thinking in my head “Well, the Tenth Doctor holds himself more upright when he runs and wouldn’t it be fab to animate his coat and -- STOP STOP STOP THINKING SUCH NONSENSE.” I am, however, thinking of stuff to do for “Taylor the Latte Boy”. Once Babiez is finished, I think I’m going to start actual production on Taylor. I’ll need to redo some of the storyboards because looking back on it now, EGADS.
+ Drawing 200 drawings in one night is not that uncommon for you. - Actually, that’s very uncommon for me. I’m not that fast.
+ Hearing the word 'Modeling' does not make you think of photographing advertisements.
+ Hearing "Flash" has no sexual connotation. - It does, however, give me a nervous twitch.
+ Hidden Mickeys are everywhere. - Yes, they are. My personal favorite is the talking skull in Pirates of the Caribbean at Disneyland. The indentations on either side of his tricorn hat create very subtle mouse ears.
+ You know exactly why the Disney sequels suck. - I BEG TO DIFFER. They are awesomely bad. There is a difference.
+ You know what PSD, MOV, AVI, and AEP files are. - Um, doesn’t everyone?
+ Tarzan is the greatest musculature ever. - He's quite ripped.
+ Not going to sleep all night is not unusual. - Well, I’m an insomniac, sooo…
+ You hate X-sheets, but you know if you don't use them, it will all fall apart. -You know what? Four years of college, three years working professionally. Have never used an X-sheet.
+ Damn $500 hole punches. - HAAAAAAAAAAAAAR. There was only one good hole punch at Monty. I coveted it lots.
+ You can see the color change in Ratigan’s Cape (Great Mouse Detective) as he moves and changes layers. - Having just recently rewatched “Great Mouse Detective”, yes!
+ Flash really is a bitch. - Yes, but she’s my bitch.
+ You can easily convince people to let you draw them. - Or they just come up to me before introducing themselves and demand a drawing of them. Tony…
+ People act like your career choice is awesome, but you know they are thinking "Where the hell is the money in animation". - What money?! WHAT. MONEY.
+ You can find the 'soul' in Sully's eyes... but Polar Express looks like a scene from 'The Exorcist'. - Or how Davy Jones’ eyes looks eerily like Bill Nighy’s, even though Davy Jones is 100% CG. I had a hard time believing it myself.
+ You never want to hear how many individual hairs were rendered in Sully fur, or feathers on Chicken Little... ever again. - Oh man, when I was at SIGGRAPH many moons ago, I got to play with some Chicken Little rigs. They were sooooooo much fun.
+ CGI is not as easy as people make it sound. - Fuck CG. I can’t do it. It took me days to animate a fucking bouncing ball, whereas I could have done it on paper within minutes.
+ Neither is timing out the damn lip sync. - Unless, of course, you’re doing it in Flash. Then it’s the EASSSSSSSSSSSIEST thing in the world.
+ There is no greater joy than watching what you just drew nonstop for a month come to life. - Not just that, but your director doesn’t give you any notes on it. Notes are good an all, but there’s that teeny bit of happiness that what you turn in is absolutely satisfactory. Or, by that point, he just doesn’t care anymore, but we won’t go into that.
+ Someone asks you what you thought of an animated film and you comment on the animation techniques. - I was doing it for “The Princess and the Frog” the other night!
+ You watch Fantasia especially for Night On Bald Mountain and think wish I could animate like Bill Tytla. - Has always been my favorite of Fantasia, followed closely by the Pastoral Symphony.
+ You skip the “Night On Bald Mountain” because you are just jaw droppingly shocked at how much detail has gone into and how well animated the whole thing is. - Why is this one following after the one where you watch “Night on Bald Mountain”? IT’S INCREDIBLE, WHY WOULD I SKIP IT.
+ You think Fantasia is one of the best animated films ever despite your friends moaning that it has a soundtrack of classical music. - Fantasia is AMAZING. I want to watch Fantasia RIGHT NOW.
+ You watch a cartoon on TV and start noticing repeated frames or backgrounds with ease. - Well, watching old Flintstones and Scooby Doo where they’re just running down endless hallways, it’s kind of hard not to.
+ You know that Tim Burton started as an animator for “The Fox And The Hound”. - Yep.
+ You know that Tim Burton worked on “The Black Cauldron”. - Yep
+ You know that “Vincent” was Tim Burton's first success at stop motion. - Yep.
+ You know Tim Burton did not direct Nightmare Before Christmas… OR… Coraline. Tim Burton had nothing to do with Coraline! Henry Selick, yo.
+ You know that Don Bluth walked out (with over 30 other members of staff) halfway through The Fox and The Hound. - Yep.
+ You know a Mac is what you really want to be using. - Eh. I’m quite fine with my Duggan here.
+ You refuse to watch any movies by Don Bluth because face it... they are awful. - Says you! I quite enjoy Don Bluth movies, but there is a certain style of animation that always shows up and it annoys the shit out of me.
+ You want Tim Curry or Jim Cummings to voice a villain in a film of yours because they are just brilliant. - Yes, unless Jim Cummings does a Cajun accent. Then I just staaaaaaaaay away.
+ You demand to know why Basil of Baker Street : The Great Mouse Detective is such an under-appreciated film. Also Vincent Price makes a brilliant villain. - YES I DEMAND THIS REASON.
+ You want to cry when you hear the words from your tutor "it's good but if you re-do this bit" with the knowledge that you have just drawn, fine lined, scanned, colored and edited together at least a minute's rough cut. - You guys know that ad they play in front of movies where it’s some CG hedgehog and the producers or financers are like “Yeah, that’s great, but could we put a hat or pants or whatever on him, that’d be better?” And then it goes to the animators and they’re all “FUCK YOU”. Yeah. I looooooove when that happens.
+ You say you do animation and your friends who don't do it say "are you mad? how can you stand drawing that much?"
+ You try to be sneaky in using repeated frames and hope nobody notices. - ALL THE TIME.
+ You spend a lot of time listening to music while coming up with concept art or waiting for rendering. - Or DVDs. I’m getting sick of everything that I own.
+ Someone (from outside the knowledge of animation) looks at your work and goes ''is that it?'' despite the fact you have just been spending at least 7 hrs a day for 15 weeks working on it and you feel the sudden urge to thump them. - I’d like to do more than thump them.
+ You have practically no social life when animating during crunch time. - You guys have noticed I’m not posting lots, yes? Or doing anything aside from drawing all day, all night?
+ Looney Tunes not only make you laugh, but the artwork and animation is draw you back to watch again and again. - I was quite depressed to go to school and find out that not a lot of people grew up watching Looney Tunes and weren’t big fans. They are AWESOME.
+ Anything.... literally anything... can happen. =^^=
And basalt and I were trying to psyche ourselves up for animating yesterday, because, let’s face it, it’s the holidays and I need a break from working. So she drew this for us for inspiration, and I need to pimp its awesomeness (click for bigger!):
And yes, she did animate, too! No slacking off there! UNLIKE ME.