How I Draw And Animate On A Budget

Trench Gremlin

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Transcript

00:00So I have officially been asked what programs I use to animate, like, at least 10 times, I think.

00:06I mean, both in comments and by friends and family.

00:09Now, I'm not annoyed by it. I'm not saying, like,

00:11UGH! HOW DARE YOU ASK ME QUESTIONS! NYEH!

00:14But having to explain it all those times has kind of got me thinking.

00:18I use a lot of, like, free or relatively cheap stuff to make these videos.

00:24Meanwhile, you always hear people complain about how, like, Toon Boom costs $1,000 and...

00:29Adobe's, like, stupid monthly subscription, and they charge you $200 if you want to cancel it. That's neat.

00:36So I'm going to show you how to get started with just art and animation on a budget.

00:41I'll also go over my process for making animations, but got an important disclaimer for that.

00:47This is not a tutorial on how to draw or animate.

00:51It's just, like, showing you programs and stuff you can get that's cheap to get you started,

00:56and just how I personally do my stuff.

00:58My art and animation looks like this.

01:01So if you want to learn how to do any of that on a professional level, you are in the wrong place.

01:07There's a million tutorials out there that teach you this stuff better than I could.

01:10Like, actual published books.

01:12Like, really think, would you rather learn how to animate from the guy who did this or this?

01:17That also goes for any program I show you in the video.

01:21This is not a tutorial on how to use those.

01:24You can find there's a million places to go to that explain it better than I ever could.

01:30And my credentials for this, if you could call it that, is that these are my most viewed videos right now.

01:38If any of these are familiar to you, I went to community college for two years majoring in digital art,

01:45and by some miracle, I passed and got a little associate's degree for that.

01:50Like, all these class projects you see here got A's.

01:53And finally, I mean, I've gotten far enough to make money off of what I do.

01:57Yeah, look at that.

01:58Look at that $100 a month.

01:59You are so jealous.

02:01Don't worry.

02:01I supplement the rest of my income by getting really, really lucky with scratch tickets.

02:06I'm fine.

02:07All right, let's see how I do this.

02:09All right, so just let's get the stuff that did cost me money out of the way.

02:13That is my...

02:15Hey, get off.

02:16Get off.

02:17Get off.

02:18Get off.

02:19Get off.

02:23Fine, fine.

02:24Stay there.

02:25Whatever.

02:26Whatever.

02:28All right.

02:29He's sitting on my fucking laptop.

02:31There's my frog sticker.

02:34That was...

02:35Forget how much that was.

02:36I'll...

02:38Shut up.

02:40I will put however much that costs on screen.

02:43That tablet, that is a Artist 12 Pro.

02:47Depending on where you get it, that'll cost you like $170 to $220-ish.

02:51Please be kinder to yours than I would.

02:54You can see all the scratches there from going too rough.

02:57That electrical tape around the thing there is because I need that to keep the little outer

03:04casing of the part that connects to the computer on.

03:08At one point, that just slipped off and got stuck in there.

03:10I needed pliers to get it out of the little port there.

03:12And now, occasionally, need to like jostle that around to keep it connecting to the computer.

03:18And that's just my life until I get sick of it and order a new one.

03:24Anytime there's been voice acting in one of my videos, ever since this stupid Brian Griffin

03:30one I made, which I actually made to test out this mic.

03:34Everything since then has used this.

03:36This is in HyperX SoloCast.

03:38It's going to be around like $40.

03:40The suppressor here is a separate thing, or pop filter is what that's called.

03:45But that's going to be like probably like $15, I think.

03:48I don't know what hour much it is on screen.

03:51While we're here, this table we're on is like a sort of artist drafting table or easel thing

03:59that can like, it can flip up.

04:00Like when you see the pictures of like animators working, it can turn into one of those.

04:05But what I used it for was this stop motion video I did.

04:09It was, this was the sort of stage that I had those on.

04:12We'll actually, actually pull some out.

04:14Just left all the stuff I use in here.

04:16Here's a clear figure.

04:20That clay is, you can get it at Dollar General for literally $2.

04:24If you want to do stop motion.

04:27This is the 4K camera I have.

04:30This was like in the $100 range.

04:34This tripod was won by, my dad won it in an auction.

04:39But you can get one of these for like $15, $30.

04:43It's not that bad.

04:43I also have Vegas Movie Studio 17, which is supposedly a neutered down version of Sony

04:49Vegas that's like missing some of the effects stuff, but it has the bare minimum of what

04:54I need.

04:55It's usually around $200, but they're always doing holiday sales where it goes on to like

05:00$80.

05:00So you can try and catch those.

05:02Some, like sometimes Movie Studio refuses to open on my computer.

05:06So if that happens, I'll use this other one that just comes with Windows called ClipChamp.

05:11So if all you need to do is like combine your scenes together, then this is serviceable.

05:16And there's also like free editing programs.

05:18So you can find like DaVinci Resolve, I think for computers, then a bunch on mobile.

05:23So I'll have them just like, and I can just lay in my bed while it work on just make stuff

05:28on my phone.

05:30CapCut is the most popular example of this.

05:33I use that for any like shitpost stuff I made for a while, but it's the same company as TikTok.

05:40So it comes with the same like shadiness that they have.

05:43If you want to avoid that, all the title and ending cards in my recent videos were made

05:49in an app called VN.

05:51That's free.

05:52There's a free version of it.

05:54And this whole first section of the video that was just me talking was compiled together

05:59in another free app called InShot.

06:03You can get a free version of these, and if you can put up with just ads being ran on it,

06:07then these are both pretty reliable.

06:09So basically, you can get like the tablet and microphone combo is $200.

06:16That's assuming you have, you already have like a computer, but if you don't, just add

06:22like that $400, so $600.

06:25And the rest of the stuff I mentioned is kind of extra, like you don't need it or you can

06:29find an alternative, but even if you put all that in there, that's under $1,000.

06:34Everything I listed, if you just buy all that, it's cheaper than one Cintiq or Toon Boom.

06:41Just work any minimum wage job for a month, and you could afford all this if you're like

06:46reckless with your money.

06:48Plus, I didn't even have to buy most of the stuff, just the camera.

06:52The rest of it is I asked for it for either Christmas or my birthday, so mommy and daddy

06:56bought it for me.

06:58Also, also, that's, this is just, if you want to get the exact like combos of stuff I have,

07:05there's other methods of getting material or whatever.

07:08So, I have a friend who does commissions, and every picture I'm showing on screen right

07:13now is something he drew on his fucking iPad.

07:17So, if you have one of those laying around, or you have $300, just buy a little stylus

07:23thing, you can get Flip-A-Clip for free and go to town.

07:27Or, you still have your DS from when you were a kid, you make something in Flipnote, get

07:31one of these little SD card adapters, get it on your computer, go to this site here to convert

07:37it into a format that people actually fucking use, and there you go, you can make a living

07:42just making little cartoons with Flipnote, there's people who've done it.

07:46So, basically, yeah, just any method you can think of that works for you, there's,

07:51either way, there's a bunch of, like, cost-effective options to get into animation.

07:56Everything else I use is completely free.

07:59Audacity for recording stuff, which seems to be what most people use, that's free.

08:04I use a mixture of Krita and OpenTunes for drawing and animating, those are also free.

08:10Little fun fact, OpenTunes was originally developed to help with Studio Ghibli movies,

08:15like, they commissioned software.

08:17So, the same program that helped make Spirited Away was used to make a video of Swingebob

08:23drinking cum.

08:23Just want to point that out, it's funny.

08:26There's other cheap options, again, like, I mentioned Flip-A-Clip, but Blender exists

08:32too, and that's free, even though it's pretty hard to learn, there's tutorials.

08:37If you just want to do art, like, there's some non-animation programs, like, Fire Alpaca,

08:43I think, is free.

08:44I always hear people cream their pants over Procreate, that's just a one-time purchase

08:48of, like, $12.

08:50There's others, you can look up and see what works better for you, but this has gone on

08:55long enough.

08:56Let's see how I make this crap.

08:57All right, first things first, we need our audio, whether it's recording something or

09:02ripping it, this is OniPlay's audio I ripped, and you can either just get, like, a YouTube

09:08MP3 converter, or you can just record it with desktop audio in Audacity, make sure you have

09:14these two settings if you want to do that, and let's see what we got.

09:19So that is one little line of dialogue we're going to, thinking the actual thing I cut

09:29out, Dave's little part there, but we highlight all this, then we, I'm going to export, make

09:37sure you do export selected audio, because if you just do any of the others, it'll, it'll

09:43still save all the recording, even though you just highlighted it, let's name it, something.

09:49I like to do, whatever name, a one, to, just, so it's easy to keep track of, and it comes

09:57up in the order I need it.

09:59So we have that, we will delete this so it's out of the way, and then you just repeat that

10:06until you've got each little part of the audio that you would want to lip sync, like, split

10:11into its own thing.

10:11Alright, so this is, we have OpenTunes pulled up, I just took a project file I already did,

10:16but, like, just imagine this is blank when you get in, so the first thing you would do

10:22is, all your audio pieces you recorded, you would, you would, you can just drag and drop

10:28them in here, like, just get out of your file folder, drag and drop them in here, and I kind

10:34of just have this as, I have this as its own column for all of the audio, we'll see, oh,

10:40the, this little chip in that border there is, that indicates that this is where one recording

10:46stops, and this is, this is where the new one starts.

10:49You can see it's the teenager in 2006 video, I figured, of all of these, that's the one

10:55people would want to see the making of the most, but we'll, so this is Krita, open in here,

11:01I draw every asset in, in this, and any little frame by frame animations also done in here,

11:09so we can see, this is that same drawing of the clouds, it's a still image, we go in here, go back,

11:17back, this, this red rectangle here is like your camera, so we can see this, see how it pans

11:26through, like that, there he is, you might notice, he is not present in this, because he is just

11:36his own drawing, that I did separately, and just laid it over the top, so I can, kind of have more

11:43control of dragging him around, except, I didn't actually tween him here, you can see all the, he

11:50is manually dragged up frame by frame, that's something I like to do, it's the, it's the same

11:55idea as tweening, where you don't have to draw a different thing each time, but, I think it, it's

12:01easier to give it, like, life and energy, like that, it's not, like, robotic, so, my little strat is, so,

12:10this is him, like, he's starting to come into frame, he goes significantly further up, more

12:17significantly further up, but, this last frame here is, he, he just, kind of, slightly goes up more,

12:25that gives him the effect of, like, kind of, easing, easing in there, at the, the end, like that,

12:31and then, this is, this goes fast enough, I just, didn't bother, also, so, you got your key frames,

12:39you just, you can, right click, and, just, set key, for when you want to do that, or, if you just,

12:48like, you're going to just jostle this, see that, it made a new key frame there, have removing parts,

12:53also, the, the title was thrown in and editing, that's not here, let's go, oh, yeah, forgot he is

13:02transparent, didn't bother bucket tooling him in, so, you got this, you can toggle that on and off,

13:10if you want to save stuff as PNGs, you can just do it here, make sure other programs do something

13:14similar, but, thankfully, that does not matter too much, because, here, see the OpenTunes background

13:22here is white, so, when we put the transparent thing over top of it, it just shows it as white

13:27anyway, that's fine, and, also, so, you notice, like, the drawings are 4x3, but, this is full 16x9,

13:36because, in OpenTunes, if you want to, have something be, 4x3 aspect ratio, it also, forces

13:44the resolution to be, like, accordingly low, so, I would have to have this only in 480,

13:50I wanted people to have the option to watch it in HD, while still being cut down for, like,

13:56authenticity, because of what it is, so, rendered it like this, and, just cropped it in editing,

14:04so, this, let's see, let's close it down here, there's more of this, let's pull that up in

14:11Krita, nope, so, this is how that looks here, you can see it's our, sort of, fake 3D perspective

14:20of, what not, kind of, going down this road, see there's no background there, so, I could,

14:28so, I could put, just a separate cloud backdrop in, see, goes all the way, like, that, and,

14:37then, you can, add, like, 2 frames a second, oh boy, we can, so, we can have to, like, pan

14:45down, like, that, add more to this, like, sort of, 3D effect I was trying to go for, again, he's a

14:52separate drawing, here, the wheels, little, line marks on the wheels move, differently, frame by frame,

15:04and, so, we come back out, and, it's the same thing, just mirrored for him coming down the

15:17road, he's a similar deal, where, whoop, that's further back, this is this, and then, we have

15:28just, him as, like, that, little, because he's a separate little thing, I just did those two

15:36drawings, save them as PNGs, and you can flip them back and forth, like, they're, this is

15:43him, so, yeah, just, so, these are in their own, little column there, all right, so, around

15:50this, let's go to that in here, here, that is, here, there is, three frames of it, for

15:59the, zip line, kind of, vibrating like that, you'll notice, he does not have his mouth, he's

16:06missing that, so, let's, but it is in here, let's look at it, is it, is it this, I guess

16:15so, at the very right here, we can just see the frames, like, just as they are, so, that's,

16:23that's one mouth of it, this is supposed to be, like, for E sounds, for O sounds, and so

16:29on, so, cool thing, that I like about OpenTunes is, so, you draw your ten mouth shapes there,

16:37you can come here, click this, go like that, you can do, just have the program do the lip sync

16:44for you, this is, you need a plug-in called Rhubarb, which you can just get for free off

16:49of GitHub, and then, so, you pick which file you do, this is why I save each, like, each

16:58line of dialogue as its own thing, so, I can do this, and you can type something in here

17:05to, sort of, help the program discern what's being said, and lip sync accordingly, you would

17:10click apply, and then it, like, puts in the right order, except, it's not perfect, sometimes

17:17it screws up, like, so, this little gap, or it's, also, did point that out, so this is,

17:24so, like, this, sort of, you have the one, kind of, goes down, that discerns which frame

17:30it is, and how many frames it's on screen, you click this little thing at the bottom to

17:34drag it out, for duration, whatever, and so, this means that it holds on the closed mouth

17:44for that long, this many frames, but, it's fine here, because this is just where you actually,

17:49like, stop talking, but, sometimes you'll get bits where, stuff that's supposed to be saying

17:57multiple words, just have a block like this, because it didn't bother lip syncing that part,

18:01you have to fix it yourself, actually, I think this might be, like, I just, like, I just did

18:09this by myself, because it didn't get as, then, it did really bad, like, figuring out what he's

18:15saying, because, like, the music in the background of this, and in other, only places where they

18:20talk over each other a lot, messes the lip syncer up, then, so, I made this little green hill a

18:28separate beast from the full background here, let's, so, we can, so, more, sort of, 3D, this is

18:40closer, so, it slides faster, see him in the back there, also helps, and what is this, okay, so,

18:51yeah, so, he's, because he's like that, you know, let's open that in, here's how that looks in

19:02open tunes, we'll fucking, there it goes, so, his thrasher shirt, I just took the actual decal and

19:08plastered on later, because, you can just import images into this, like that, but a lot of times,

19:15it kind of, lags it out, and crashes it, so, I try to avoid that as much as I can, we have, so, here,

19:22this is a different mouth, I just did all this lip sync by myself, because, he just says a couple

19:27words, it's not too bad, so, here he goes, let's go through here, and it stops when he gets there,

19:39because, so, when we look at that, yeah, see, so, it pans away from his mouth for, like, the ending

19:55part of this, so, it, like, there's no point in doing his mouth if it's not even going to be on

19:59screen, see it, let's see it pan down to, so, we have that to the tune of the song, oh, my God,

20:10so, this, I just stole the gradient offline, oh, boy, and what's cool about this is, so, I just had to do,

20:21you know, autosave, that's what that is, it's trying to do, so, I could just copy-paste one of these

20:28mouths to the other ones, because they say the exact same thing, that's cool,

20:42oh, oh, this is what fucking breaks, because I just put the actual fucking Naruto footage over top of

20:54this is in here, because, for some reason, I didn't want to just wait for editing, so, that fucks us up,

21:02probably, here is, let's pull, let's pull that up, and this, oh, here's that, also, how it kind of pans,

21:13this is also not a tween, I just did that myself, so, here's how that looks in here, you'll notice,

21:19did not bother drawing his body for this first part, because he, it starts zoomed in,

21:26this part is cropped off, originally, so, then, he kind of just, he shakes around a bit, so,

21:34how you do that in Krita, it's, it's not, you can't do tweeting in this, but you can do my little fake

21:40tweeting, I like, you click this icon here, and you can drag him around, you can squash him up and down,

21:47that's just your free drag tool, let's fix him, and he, so, he does that bounce, so, this is a little

21:56mind trick for you, he, you just do that, you know, it's just another drawing, the, the bounce kind of,

22:03kind of deludes you into thinking there was more movement there than there was,

22:07so, that's, you see that sort of, kind of bounce trick in, like, a lot of older internet cartoons,

22:16from the time that this is kind of trying to harken back to, like, odd ones out, does it,

22:22now, you know how they do it, here's our solid background here, because, let's scroll down,

22:31is it this, yep, see, we just have this, that, and that, just pre-made stuff,

22:37let's see what this is, see, so, it was very important to, like, bucket tool the white here,

22:48because, so, otherwise, he would be see-through in front of this hot topic here, we can actually

22:53see a part where I, like, fucked that up, kind of showed him talking about later, but, yeah, it's,

23:00that's something you gotta really try to remember, if you're, if you have your white, like, drawing

23:04cannabis, it's an easy thing to forget, because it's just already white, looks like, but you still

23:10need a bucket tool of that, here it is, uh, this is more of that bullshit, I just put the actual

23:17jackass footage in here, for some reason, so, let's see how that looks, see, in here, it's just,

23:26blank screen, and then up here, it's, it's jackass, so it's, kind of, looks like, so then, it's not as,

23:37like, nothing going on, just have this still image, because you have this, there's something moving,

23:41and then, here they are, it's the same thing, where, you can just copy the exact same lip sync,

23:49because they're doing it in harmony, uh, let's actually watch the, sort of, bounce thing in motion,

23:55so, let's show that, so, we'll show, he squashes down, we can, should be able to see, like, the layering,

24:06over here, like, all three of these, kind of, have to be their own, actually, wait, I think,

24:12oh, yeah, he's, he doesn't have to move at all, so, he's just part of the TV, okay, and then,

24:18there's him, squashing up, we'll, see how that looks in motion,

24:25oh, and this part, let's, this is, probably one of my favorite, things in this whole thing,

24:38I like how this, sort of, turned out, we have, so, there's Tony Hawk, just in here,

24:43Matt Hoffman, him, this is the same thing, where, he says,

24:49the one bald, and then, something blocked by their, like, derilla noise,

24:54sense, just sound, so, that's, the four syllables, those,

24:59that wasn't too bad, I just lip sync myself,

25:02but, like, if it's a full, like, line, it's, I would,

25:07if there's anything you do want to automate, about animating it, is that, because,

25:11it's such a simple, yet, mind-numbingly, tedious, thing, it's just, like, I would rather use that

25:18time to, like, figure out how to do the, like, hard stuff, and get that over with,

25:24just personally, these squashes, so, here, because, this is him saying, I can't remember his name,

25:32so, that's a, that's a few more words, I just did that, lip sync, with the program there,

25:38and, here, he is, and then, so, all of that, is, it's still images in there, I did,

25:46my little tweening, also, so, these arrows here are, if you, hold on,

25:55if you, like, right click here, that is, sort of, it's ease in, and ease out, interpolation,

26:02which, which, like, it's, it's really finicky in this, you can only, do whatever, there's a certain

26:10amount of space between keyframes, but, that's how you get over there, kind of, like, accelerate and

26:15slow down, which is good, sometimes, it's, makes panning look a little better, so, let's see how this

26:23looks, so, that's how that works, so, this is the keyframe for him being all the way over there,

26:31and then, it snaps back over here, for him to pan in the same way,

26:42and then, this, like, this little thing, where it's, like, moving past the checkerboard, is

26:46inspired by, there was an Ed's World music video thing, that's actually from 2006, that has

26:51similar effect, I think it looks nice, and it's indicative of the time, also, similar thing, this,

27:00this Curious George movie came out in 2006, so, that's why that's there, and that's a, so,

27:09that's good that he's, his own thing in the background is a good thing, so, you can actually

27:13have it, like, go behind him, doesn't, like, obscure him at all, so, he comes in, so, then,

27:32here's, as I'm skipping past the Bliss background, let's see how that looks, here's how that looks,

27:40here, they come up, down, it will fucking load, all right, there he goes, they, when they come

27:49up, his leg is, it's a different leg that's in front, that doesn't really register too much

27:55with this, like, his black pants, so, it's like that, so, it's next there, whoop, and then,

28:13this writing is also its own, like, separate file that can just, so I can just have it tween

28:19through, oh, it froze, like, like, more fucking Naruto footage put over that, that's such a good

28:30idea, this program can totally handle me doing that, it's great, uh, here's how that looks

28:36here, so, actually, something I had to do is, so, his hair, this is kind of bad composition,

28:45this is why, I'm not, this is why I don't want to teach you, like, animating the voice,

28:50like, he should be further away, so this doesn't connect, it fucks with, like, I'm trying to

28:55do, like, sort of perspective, like, this is in the back, but, you have this, and then,

29:00so, where his hair should go, it should go, like, maybe we can, yeah, we can see my little

29:05hacky, like, bucket tool fuck up here, so, it goes into the TV a little too much, so, uh,

29:14when you look at it, so, the, even though this is all one drawing, the way I still got

29:21his hair to, like, kind of go over top of that, not to, it doesn't look like it's, like,

29:26caught in the screen there, is, let's see, this green, this green little column here,

29:33it means, I clicked this brush and actually drew something, so I filled in his hair with,

29:39like, that, but, I, I don't just draw in open tunes because the way this works is,

29:44is, oh, my god, that, I don't like that, I need it to be, it's just instant,

29:50so, we have that,

29:57let's see what else is here, oh, yeah, another thing where, like, pans out to reveal this,

30:07I don't know why, I don't know why I just didn't, it could've just had one frame of,

30:14or, I guess, two for his drum animation, I don't know why I just didn't, just already,

30:19oh, that, oh, that's right, because they, they changed their faces, that's right,

30:23and then, so, when you get to this, this is, so, by this point, we are, we have, like, so, there's,

30:33that's another, sort of, shortcut thing, is, there's only, like, 70 unique frames, and there's,

30:41and there's, certain ones are on screen for, like, certain amounts of time to stretch it out,

30:46and so, my computer, kind of, like, once you get to this many, like, frames of something,

30:53it, kind of, it, kind of starts slowing down, straight in the computer, so,

30:58save that as its own thing here, then, let's go to part two,

31:05is this, this is a weird, weird thing, it's, like, a mix of, like, kind of, like, dragging him across

31:13the screen, and frame by frame, so, if it'll let me in there, see, a sort of smear thing, where he's,

31:20he's, like, stretched out, his fingers are bent back, like that, comes all the way over here,

31:26here, that's him squashing down, but these are all new, new drawings, I think, actually, I think,

31:33nope, those are new, and this is, this part is different, I decided to add more to his legs for

31:41him to be taller, comes down, it's the same, copy-paste of that same frame there,

31:49comes back, this is,

31:51it's a weird little thing here,

31:54let's see, he jumps, that's all just one drawing that I rotated, and then,

32:10so, here's his, here's his Naruto run down the hall, let's see how that looks in here,

32:16I actually bothered to, kind of, put the effect to show that this is the other leg in front,

32:20this time, this time, I need trips, kind of slides a bit,

32:26let's see how that looks,

32:30is it this, no, it's not that,

32:33I think it's this, yep, see the,

32:35so, this is the file for the lockers,

32:39it has their own thing in the back, so they can, so they can pan through like this,

32:43and then, I kind of just, instead of them, like, sliding, this looks more like tripping,

32:53to have them, like, rotate away like this, and then,

32:55this bully is meant to be the main dude from High School Musical,

33:01because that was, that came out 2006, was trying to go for that,

33:04I don't, don't think it looks like him, I don't even think his character was that he's like,

33:08like a, actual, like, rotten bully, but,

33:13I don't know, I still think it's a, that's a fun, like, stupid face,

33:16because I still like this design, even though it's,

33:18doesn't really, indicative of that, more,

33:21more camera pan shenanigans, he's supposed to look like he's sucking the emo dick,

33:26but, it is, that's not,

33:28it, it's just his trombone,

33:31because he plays a trombone in real life, aren't I smart?

33:35Here's this, so,

33:37it's specifically,

33:39it's Fred, Fredberger from Billy and Mandy,

33:42because they had their,

33:44he was like Cartoon Network's mascot,

33:45for a little bit in 2006,

33:47where it was just him over a red background,

33:49same bullshit,

33:50a lot of ads of that,

33:52Sonic 06,

33:55dude, what, dude,

33:56this is blanking out,

33:57what year did Sonic 06 come out in,

33:59help,

34:01here's our dumb looking Steve Irwin,

34:05so,

34:06oh, wait, no, that's up here,

34:07you have three frames to see this fucking Stingray come in,

34:11I held a community tab poll to ask if this was in bad taste,

34:15and,

34:16an overwhelming majority of people said no,

34:19so,

34:20I don't,

34:20have to take full responsibility for that,

34:23meaning that if you're mad at it,

34:25here is,

34:27traced over a,

34:29infamous picture of a LAN party,

34:31is what this is called,

34:32there's,

34:33someone else made a trace,

34:34where it's,

34:34the family guy characters in the positions,

34:36so the,

34:38the nar,

34:39no, not the nar,

34:40so the,

34:40the Halo 2 footage I put over this,

34:44was,

34:44actually,

34:45did it,

34:46did that in post,

34:47like a normal fucking human being,

34:48because this is,

34:50this is Counter-Strike here,

34:51and also,

34:52it's a Stella image,

34:52so it,

34:53it doesn't move,

34:54so there you go,

34:56what else is down here,

34:59it's Madagascar with Alex the Lion,

35:02so,

35:03that's what this,

35:04character is,

35:05this is how,

35:05Blaze the movie fan,

35:07like,

35:07draws himself,

35:08and he's a,

35:10he's a,

35:14separate thing,

35:15he,

35:15so you can,

35:16because I forgot to put him in there,

35:17and it's also,

35:19like when you can't do like,

35:20tweeting stuff in Krita,

35:22it's nice to be able to keep track of just,

35:24these two things,

35:25and not have the third thing in there,

35:26just throw him in later,

35:29what is this,

35:30oh,

35:31here's the 911 smoke that,

35:32doesn't move,

35:38but I did bother to,

35:40animate this fucking rainbow flying,

35:42and there you go,

35:48here's Shoop the Whoop,

35:50another example where,

35:53this,

35:53he says,

35:54four syllables,

35:56I'm not gonna make the program do four syllables,

35:59so I just,

36:01plus you can,

36:03he says,

36:04Shoop,

36:06and then,

36:08whoops,

36:08you can just copy paste the same,

36:10like oh,

36:11so there you go,

36:12he,

36:13he slides,

36:14he slides back,

36:15that's another fake tweening I did in Krita,

36:18here's his,

36:20have this,

36:21so,

36:23you can go to actual animation tutorials,

36:25learn about like ones versus twos,

36:27but,

36:28for this,

36:29if this moved at ones,

36:30it would probably,

36:31it kind of looks too nauseating,

36:32so,

36:33you just,

36:33you just have your one drawing,

36:35you can,

36:35drag it out,

36:36so you don't have to actually,

36:38like have this project file going at,

36:40like 12 versus 24 frames a second,

36:42you can just,

36:44it's 24 frames a second,

36:46but just,

36:47have these,

36:47manually make them on screen for two,

36:50and also just copy paste them,

36:53just,

36:54I don't,

36:55kind of disappointed with this,

36:56I don't think it looks enough like George Bush,

36:58like I didn't,

37:00I didn't accentuate his cheeks enough,

37:02really,

37:06kind of,

37:06looks like Bill Clinton a little,

37:09what's,

37:09what's down here,

37:10Osama,

37:11you don't really get to see this,

37:14but I like him just,

37:15looking straight at the camera,

37:16with his dumb Simpsons eyes,

37:18and then,

37:19him darting his eyes is,

37:22if that's frame by frame,

37:23but it's,

37:23it's the same effect as my,

37:25like fake tweening,

37:26where,

37:27so this is where he like starts,

37:30he gets kind of where he's going,

37:33and a little,

37:33just slightly more to,

37:35have it kind of ease in,

37:37something you could do is like,

37:40we could switch,

37:41like step three and four here,

37:43around,

37:43so it's,

37:47so you get that sort of like,

37:48bounce effect,

37:49like they overshoot and come back,

37:50I'll do that sometimes,

37:52same effect of like kind of just,

37:54adding more life,

37:55even though it's,

37:57not,

37:58not too,

37:59I guess not,

38:00this is groundbreaking animation,

38:02but just little things like that,

38:03to make it look more appealing to look at,

38:06and him coming back,

38:09I think this is,

38:11iPod Nano,

38:13and this,

38:15what I was trying to do is,

38:18it's like,

38:18it slides past,

38:20then,

38:21then he comes in,

38:22I was trying to go for like another,

38:23fake 3D thing,

38:24where like you,

38:26sort of,

38:27so it's like a POV,

38:28of like him looking at his,

38:30iPod,

38:30then it kind of like spins back,

38:31to actually show him dead on,

38:34from a dance,

38:35I put,

38:37here's how his,

38:38here's how his,

38:39head banging looks with,

38:40at like two frames a second,

38:44here's how that looks,

38:45without the filters,

38:46I put over this,

38:47to try and invoke movie maker,

38:50is this the,

38:51yes,

38:51this is it,

38:52so this,

38:54is what I was talking about,

38:55where you don't,

38:56Bucketool the white,

38:57that's supposed to be,

38:58part of his head,

39:00but it's like his own little thing,

39:01I did not fill it in,

39:03so now it's orange,

39:04and then something really weird is,

39:06I,

39:07I guess I,

39:08may I remember to do it there,

39:10but,

39:11not here,

39:11I don't know how that,

39:12fucking works,

39:13how the,

39:15here it is,

39:15wait,

39:16one, two,

39:18this is our vacuum joke,

39:22it's something,

39:23something that doesn't really show up in here,

39:25but,

39:25like,

39:26if you're just gonna have a still image on screen,

39:28like at least have like some kind of,

39:30either,

39:30I mean this is,

39:31this is fine,

39:32because it's like literally like two seconds,

39:34of just being there,

39:34and then it cuts to something else,

39:37but,

39:38what I'd like,

39:39what I'd like to do,

39:40if it's,

39:40if you're just gonna hold on a still image,

39:41for really long,

39:42is,

39:43just have it like,

39:44kind of pan,

39:44like zoom out,

39:45just as like,

39:46movement,

39:47or some kind of movement,

39:48here is Wii Sports,

39:51I guess that's where he starts,

39:53that's frame by frame,

39:55and throwing that,

39:57then my weird hybrid kicks in with a jump,

39:59so,

40:00I actually,

40:01I didn't quite remember,

40:02how this looked,

40:03this is in,

40:04like when you fuck up,

40:05Wii Sports bowling,

40:06everyone in the back,

40:07like jumps,

40:09so,

40:10I was looking it up,

40:11trying to remember how it looked,

40:12and,

40:13I was like,

40:13oh please god,

40:14I just hope they don't spin around,

40:16please tell me they don't,

40:17and they,

40:18they sure enough,

40:18they spin around,

40:19and I was like,

40:20fuck,

40:20I have to actually,

40:22draw that,

40:22it's more work,

40:23except,

40:24not even too bad,

40:25because it's just,

40:26it's like four frames,

40:28of them spinning around,

40:29and I didn't even change the body,

40:31just the,

40:31head and arm placement,

40:33or,

40:33the ball for their hand,

40:34and also,

40:37I don't even think,

40:38they're rendered like this,

40:39in the bowling,

40:39it's,

40:39didn't earn that cheat,

40:43come down,

40:44they,

40:44see this is what I was,

40:47talking about a little,

40:48earlier with Osama's eyes,

40:50they,

40:51yeah,

40:51they squash down,

40:53like that,

40:54to sort of,

40:55you can,

40:55that's another little,

40:56effect to,

40:57sort of,

40:58punch that up a bit,

40:59here's this,

41:01I,

41:02love,

41:04be,

41:05ing,

41:07uh,

41:08uh,

41:12oh,

41:12that's right,

41:13this is,

41:14so you can,

41:15you can very easily,

41:16pinpoint this,

41:17where I just,

41:17got sick of making it,

41:18wanting it,

41:19wanted it to be over,

41:20and there's like,

41:21barely any,

41:22anything,

41:23past this point,

41:23I just,

41:24in this section here,

41:25I just flashed a bunch of,

41:27like actual pictures,

41:28stuff from the time,

41:30on screen,

41:31rapid fire,

41:33still image,

41:34I don't,

41:35I think 2006,

41:36is a little late for this,

41:37but I just didn't,

41:38know what else to put there,

41:41another still image,

41:42but,

41:43see this is what I was,

41:43talking about,

41:44like if it's gonna hold on,

41:45these still images,

41:46the little strobe effects,

41:47I put in is like,

41:49like bare minimum,

41:50to like,

41:51make it like,

41:52a little,

41:52add more life,

41:53here,

41:54not a total slideshow,

41:57here's their memory,

41:59memory book,

42:00they're looking at,

42:01something funny about,

42:03this is,

42:04so that is the,

42:06robot baby,

42:07from the,

42:08PS3 commercials,

42:09one last little,

42:10thing that was actually,

42:11from 2006,

42:12but,

42:13someone in the comments,

42:14thought it was,

42:15clerk,

42:15it was a clerk,

42:16like,

42:17if you know,

42:18who's schmorky is at all,

42:20you would know why,

42:21that's a pretty insane thing,

42:23to put in here,

42:24but that is not,

42:24what this is,

42:25I meant to,

42:26I thought about,

42:27putting one in there,

42:27because that is,

42:29like,

42:29you know,

42:29like,

42:30it's like something awful,

42:32it's pretty,

42:332000s-ish,

42:34I probably could have put it,

42:36like,

42:36back up in this,

42:37like,

42:37montage here,

42:38if I wasn't a lazy fuck,

42:40but,

42:41it wasn't,

42:41did not,

42:42it was not meant to be,

42:43and we have,

42:46let's see what,

42:47this is there,

42:48oh yeah,

42:49this is where it,

42:51reveals that they were just,

42:5230 year old fucks,

42:54looking at,

42:55looking at memories past,

42:57so,

42:57that's kind of what I wanted to go for,

42:59with the,

43:00so,

43:00that's what his pink glasses are,

43:03that he has throughout the video,

43:04it's supposed to be,

43:05literal rose tinted glasses,

43:06because they,

43:08I mean,

43:08they wrote the song as a joke,

43:09but,

43:11I don't know,

43:11it's still,

43:12it still kind of,

43:14fits the mold of like,

43:16really,

43:16like,

43:17superficial nostalgia bait songs,

43:19so I kind of,

43:20so it's kind of,

43:21invoking that a little,

43:23he,

43:24he has his own lip sync here,

43:26and,

43:27like that,

43:28and then what is,

43:29this is where it fades to black,

43:31the,

43:33so yeah,

43:33the,

43:33the Windows Movie Maker credits,

43:36are not on this,

43:37obviously,

43:38but,

43:38they're not actually done,

43:40in Movie Maker,

43:41I don't,

43:41think there's a way to,

43:43download it in,

43:43current day,

43:45I don't,

43:45like all the archives,

43:46I looked up for like,

43:47how to find it,

43:48just aren't around anymore,

43:49it seems like,

43:50so,

43:51what I did for that,

43:52was I,

43:54if I just,

43:54like,

43:55screenshotted a,

43:56old video that had the,

43:57Movie Maker,

43:58the,

44:00and then just put my own,

44:02text over it,

44:03and then,

44:03seems like that,

44:04tricked people,

44:05I don't think anyone,

44:06noticed,

44:07unless I like told them,

44:08so,

44:10kind of,

44:11kind of been away from,

44:12Krita for a while,

44:13let's see what,

44:15what it is,

44:16oh,

44:17this is him,

44:17sliding back,

44:19it's the same thing here,

44:20to like,

44:21kind of resize him,

44:22is how I did that,

44:23and then just drew the mouth over him,

44:25seems,

44:25I think we,

44:26kind of just,

44:27you kind of get the gist,

44:28of like how stuff is done,

44:29so,

44:31so,

44:31when we save this,

44:33we go to render,

44:35you can,

44:36you can save it as a video,

44:38like an mp4,

44:39but,

44:40image sequence here is,

44:42it saves every,

44:43individual file as,

44:45or every individual frame of this,

44:47as its own png,

44:48so that's how we get the,

44:50that's how we keep,

44:51we're able to keep the,

44:52transparent effect,

44:53and just have like a,

44:55have like a,

44:55if there's any kind of walk cycle,

44:58it's really useful for that,

45:00so,

45:01you,

45:02you discern like,

45:04which frame of this is the last one,

45:06you name it,

45:07file location,

45:08all that,

45:09and then,

45:11so,

45:11for naming it,

45:12whatever you want to name it,

45:13make sure you put,

45:14a period at the end of it,

45:15so,

45:17let's,

45:17let's pull one up,

45:18alright,

45:18so here is,

45:20how that looks,

45:23how each frame of this,

45:25when rendered as,

45:26image sequence looks,

45:27it's all in its own folder,

45:28it's named,

45:29dot zero zero zero one,

45:31and so on,

45:31look at this,

45:32a fucking shadow ghoul,

45:34and,

45:36so this is how,

45:37open tuners,

45:38these image sequences,

45:39so if we,

45:40come in here,

45:43we,

45:44we just drag any one of these frames,

45:48into,

45:49whatever,

45:52see,

45:53see,

45:54it can tell that they're all,

45:55supposed to go together,

45:56so every frame,

45:57that was in that folder,

45:58gets put in here,

45:58and you can,

46:00something needs to be on screen,

46:01for a certain amount of time,

46:02you can,

46:03drag it like this,

46:04and,

46:06there,

46:07you go,

46:07that's how,

46:08we,

46:09get our creative stuff,

46:10into open tunes,

46:11to do all this crap,

46:13and then,

46:16so we kind of went in a weird order,

46:18but,

46:18I like to just,

46:19draw it,

46:20and create it first,

46:21and,

46:21having the,

46:24having just the,

46:25like,

46:26audio here,

46:27is good,

46:27so you can like,

46:28just come back to it,

46:29see what you need to put in the animation,

46:30and then,

46:33so yeah,

46:35so I like,

46:36draw everything,

46:37and create it,

46:37do that,

46:38to get in here,

46:39and then just drag it around as I need,

46:41put the lip sync on,

46:43get any like,

46:45additional assets in here,

46:46like,

46:47just,

46:48ripping sound effects,

46:49or whatever,

46:50and,

46:52there you go,

46:53that is,

46:53how I make this garbage,

46:55everything else I made,

46:56is like,

46:57done similarly,

46:58but,

46:59I figured this one,

47:00like,

47:00this,

47:01this is the popular one,

47:02and it has probably the most going on,

47:04to look at,

47:05so,

47:06there you go,

47:07hope you,

47:08hope you learn,

47:10how,

47:11like,

47:12how,

47:13like,

47:13easy it is to,

47:15at least get into animation,

47:16not necessarily,

47:17like,

47:17do it good,

47:18but,

47:19it is accessible to anyone,

47:21with a computer,

47:22basically,

47:22it,

47:23as long as you just have a computer,

47:24and like,

47:25some money,

47:26that it,

47:27this is,

47:28this has never been easier,

47:29to get into,

47:30so,

47:31hope you enjoyed.

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