#animators on youtube

[art-appreciation-dog]

Hugo's Mind Palace (Pilot)

[saeriibon]

tribute to jerboas

[funnyshorts]

[karakt]

I saw the new tadc episode and I am moved

[sparrowlucero]

The greatest injustice ever faced is that I almost certainly started the still thriving "clown husbandry" tag on here, but any discussion about it (from a know your meme page to a youtube video with 500k views) says it's a joke of "unknown origin" or credited to this post, likely bouncing off of mine (which was actively circulating at the time with like 30k notes):

This is a tragedy for many reasons, most of all because it wasn't just an offhand joke but actually a direct response to some of the funniest online hate I ever got:

They're erasing the truest history of tumblr: its desperate need to seethe and argue over every obvious joke with more than 10 notes.

anyways here is the canonical pet clown. according to me

[studio-obake]

ghost in the rain

studioOBAKE https://studio-obake.com/

[psie-smutki]

Goofy tyrannosaurid playing in the snow ☃️

[cutetanuki-chan]

I couldn't put it as a thumbnail so here's just Gideon seperatly

this is the dumbest thing ever but I had so much fun with it

[swampjawn]

Time to talk an unnecessary amount about floors!

Episode 6 of Dungeon Meshi was produced in collaboration with a smaller studio, Enishiya - and it went way harder than I expected, for being made up of two relatively simple and self contained stories focusing on one character each.

And you can really see how those extra resources meant the animators could give full focus to both halves of the episode. Let's take a look at one piece that stole the show.

The first half was handled primarily by episode director/storyboard artist Keita Nagahara and co-animation director Hirotoshi (or Hiroaki? [1]) Arai. It's actually kinda insane how much of this section can be attributed to these two.

But the real star of the show is the second half, Chilchuck vs the mimic, led by co-animation director Toya Ooshima in his first animation director role for TV anime!

And the biggest aspect that knocked my dang boots off was something that's very consistent with Ooshima's style: background animation!

By animating the backgrounds rather than using painted still images, Ooshima and the team of other similarly skilled animators are able to create these beautiful dynamic camera movements that wouldn't be possible otherwise. Like these cuts by Takeshi Maenami where the camera becomes an expressive part of the scene, zipping forward and backward, and tilting to emphasize the speed of this murderous hermit crab. (Maenami's style is also very recognizable here - snappy timing and quick camera movements)

Or this cut by the incredible Kaito Tomioka which cleverly combines a traditional background for the walls with a fully animated floor. The level of detail in these tiles is just completely insane, and used to great effect with this wide, diagonal angle, and the way the camera tentatively drifts forward before reversing direction, and the tiles blur out as it speeds up.

I don't think I'm the only one caught off guard by how much they full-assed this little side story, but it was a pleasant surprise!

I broke down the entire episode in this video here. A lot of research went into this one, and I think it's the best one of these videos I've made so far, so if you're at all interested in more of this type of analysis in video form, I would really appreciate it if you checked it out, or re-blogged this post! Thanks

[1] It's listed as Hirotoshi on Anime News Network, but Hiroaki on a key frame that Studio Trigger shared on Twitter, so I'm not sure which one is wrong.

[anyaboz]

How I made the puppets for Nobody’s Wolf Child’s “Selkie” music video.

Full Video

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[monkey-wrench-series]

Monkey Wrench Ep 4 - Plague Walker

Shrike & Beebs are forced to take a break during their current mission

Voice Cast; Shrike Sanchez - Jacob Barrens Bulldog

'Beebs' Browns - Jean-francois Donaldson

Tyneen - Niko Vargas

Ricket - Zane Schacht

Campion Ajax - Eli Harris

Disco Head - JP Brown

'Agent K' - Lou Haroldson

News Caster / Waiter / Weevil Receptionist - Lacey Deline

Officer Armstrong - Vinny Vinesauce

Jaw Bone - Vargskelethor Joel

Weevil Engineers - Michael Kovach

Bar Tender Dave - Cadaver Dave

Stage Presenter - Alex Rochon

Additional Voices - Matthew Pantano

Music - Ockeroid

Sound - Matthew Pantano

Voice director - Ashley Palmer

Spanish Consultant - Bertha Trevino

Guest Animator - Doobus Goobus

Animators

Episode 4 OST

OH LORD what a monster this one was. Originally we were going to do the hybrid animatic style but after getting a good half of the ep done and watching back I personally didn't like how it ended up looking so I decided to knuckle down for an additional 3-4 months to get it fully animated.

It nearly killed me.

I hope you enjoy this cliff hanger episode.

Ash & I are already getting ep 5 set up. It's gonna take a while before we can start the ball rolling though, so I appreciate the patience from you folks!

KARA plush is live!

We have new shirts and various other goodies in our fourthwall store!

Now if you excuse me, I'm gonna go into a coma for the remainder of the year.

[blumineck]

OK, I know I usually talk about fantasy archery in a positive sense, but I think there’s also a place for (hopefully constructive) criticism of tropes that could do with improving!

If you like this sort of thing, here’s the full video:

Remember,

[turbomnstr]

[bonbon51691]

Hand of Gods-lyricstuck MAP part 1