#animation process

[empty-movement]

Revolutionary Girl Utena, episode 6: Nanami-sama, Beware!, Shot 90

First drafts in white, with senior animator corrections in yellow, depicting the process of getting that zooming shot of Nanami JUST RIGHT! These aren't the cel and its final sketch, but rather the process leading up to it! And because this episode is one I have the storyboard for, I can even show you the storyboard! This is a really awesome end-to-end slice of Production Life in 1997!!!! I have lots more I'm making, including some scanned by other lucky winners of these auctions. This and frankly a fucking comical amount more coming with a site update I'm finishing up now!

I just have to finish these, which because of their shape require two scans each and stitching rip me, also this isn't the entire shot Tumblr won't let me post such baka hueg content

[thirdchildart]

I'm still working away on this!! I'll stream a couple days next week (probably Tuesday and Thursday?) while I keep at it!!

[michaeladrianwright]

Knight Process

[scurviesdisneyblog]

The main goal is to adopt the Sanders style and convey it throughout the film with extraordinary uniformity and commonality. We’ve done our best in the Cleanup Department to emulate it, to capture its essence, while not being able to duplicate it precisely. - Christine Lawrence-Finney from Lilo & Stitch: Collected Stories from the Film’s Creators. 

[wily-art]

For anyone who was curious on how I animated this effect!

[vrihedd]

Animation breakdown ✨

Painted in Photoshop, rigged and animated in Spine2D, composed in After Effects.

[xtaleunderverse]

Rough animation from one of the fight scenes in Underverse 0.8 part 1. Worked on this from the last stream, haven't made more progress because I'm animating another fight scene that has bigger spoilers.

[debbie-sketch]

Hi everyone! This time I wanted to show you my tiny animation based on the mural by Rufino Tamayo "Dualidad". I also share some of the process that goes in the creation of the idea. 

[lucafuwafuwa24]

for some reason i managed to do prettier shading while trying animating in krita for the first time.

[thingsaday]

My favorite line in rick and Morty is when Rick comes out and says “it’s Mortin’ time”.

[deepsi0]

Btw I'm still working on this

[empty-movement]

OLD SCHOOL ANIMATION NERDS, I SUMMON THEE TO ASSIST

Hey! Vanna here! So I recently, in a rage at the loss of the end-of-series lot of production materials, bought a cheaper lot I had been curious about, and I kinda struck animation history gold with it! Try as I might to pull the whole context together, I need y'alls help accurately naming and identifying what I have!!! There are MANY MORE of these, all from the same episode, an Utena one, a LOT of Nanami, and a group shot even, all following this similar formula. But let's be honest, Vanna and Yasha wanted that sweet Touga smugness. Analysis and questions below the cut! These aren't ALL the sheets, there are ones for the face shape and sleeve also but to demonstrate. Also, fucking amazingly, I also have the storyboards for this episode, so I can even tell you the shot number is 287 ISNT THAT COOL

So Utena fans. You may or may not know, but episodes 6 and 8 had very chaotic productions, and did end up getting swapped in the end. Per Ikuhara's directory commentary in the Nozomi Blu-ray:

He makes explicit reference here to Akemi Hayashi, credited as the animation director for the episode. I can't recall where I saw it now, but I know the difficulty of drawing Touga on model is mentioned somewhere in all the production stuff I have.

Now. Here's the problem. I DON'T FUCKING KNOW WHAT THEISIWEUGWEYGF what do I callll these. My understanding is the the douga is the final line art, transferred onto the cel, and that is the only thing that you call a douga. A douga is the 1:1 match to its cels in a sequence. With an anime like Utena, it's pretty often going to be included with the cel, if you obtain one. These are douga, the final line art that creates the animation, scans donated by JadeSabre and edited into sequence. The frames are numbered in the top right, and there are no notes or anything drawn on the sheets.

Now. That is NOT what I have above. So none of these materials are douga, they are...genga? Help? (This will get wild with Nanami, where I even have a green sketch that is clearly like, VERY FIRST draft of the shot...)

What I have are the key frames, to my understanding. Meaning these represent a point much earlier in the production process. On first glance, the white sheets are significantly cleaner, but they are also so far off model they're flying along with the Voyager probes in interstellar space. They're very capably drawn, don't get me wrong, but they're clearly done by someone who is not on the Dorito face bandwagon. This is apparently pretty common? You get your initial key frame sketches (genga??) made, and then the animation direction (Hayashi??) grades your work by making messier, but more on model versions of the shots. These are the yellow 'correction' genga?

The douga of this shot are likely with the cels. There are 11 distinct cels of Touga's face (others for the sleeve), guided by the 4 key frame sketches I have here. Looked at individually, I can even see where the filled in frames struggle a bit more to be on model than the key ones, even in the final product.

So clearly, what I have are some pretty early process materials where there was a bit of a back and forth about how to draw the characters. The others I have are similar corrections, but this is the absolute most drastic one. It's like they said 'just do it like kinda shoujo and we'll iron it out later.'

The question I have is...can I safely assume these yellow correction sheets are actually Akemi Hayashi originals? Or would there have been another person in this process doing this correction work instead? Would there be a way to know who drew the original ?genga? That may not be possible to ascertain, but it would be really cool to try, since this episode was a Chaos Production, since I have the actual storyboard for it, since I now have a neat piece of context about what the Chaos might have meant. This shot always stuck out to me in the first arc, because it's true that for a lot of the first arc, Touga and Saionji look....far more like the first drafts here. The strict adherence to the Hasegawa style gets enforced later in the series, but this is an example of the exchange that needed to occur to get folks on board with what was a pretty unique art style.

PS. This is torture, the shape of these means I actually need to make two scans of each one and stitch them together, which is nervewracking when you want them to overlap properly and also you don't want to wreck your toilet paper ass production materials pressing them into the scanner bed. Also several are fucking taped together and lemme tell you, 25 year old 'clear tape' don't stay clear and don't stay sticky.

Basically, any context or knowledge anyone can impart I would appreciate a lot! I know I've got something really cool here, but I am struggling to get much clear information about it, because Google is broken.

[thirdchildart]

Ok, after this there are only TWO SHOTS LEFT to animate! (They are the longest, most emotionally heavy shots, but still!!!!)

[xxthebubblewitchxx]

I forgot I wanted to post these! I always like to watch the progress so I wanted to share it too! :)

[gingerjangle]

the task was "30 sec - 1 min animation of a childhood memory" lmaoooo, we only had like 4 or 3 days to work on it so took it as an opportunity to expiriment a bit in after effects,,, kinda getting the hang of ngl

last one was a quick styleframe