Being a key animator in Japan with Ken Arto from Yapiko | TVPaint interview

[@leafydragon]

so amazing wow! I've been studying Japanese and am also an animator type. very valuable to see behind the scenes because I find it hard to find videos on the anime process.

[@crimmerz2000]

Lol I talked to a foreign animator of black clover on discord he said he just uses google translate to message with the studio but I guess if you want to move up to be a director of animation you should know Japanese

[@crashfan11]

@@crimmerz2000 I don't know about that...

[@pauljerome01]

@@crimmerz2000 so much for studying japanese LOL checkmate weebs

[@crimmerz2000]

@@crashfan11 its true, hes known well on the animation discord there are a few other animators that freelance for japanese studios there also

[@ra-tz9hg]

@@crimmerz2000 That sounds super interesting- could you give me resources to the server or whatever please?

[@jamesandrew6188]

First time in my life I have so beard person in japan .

[@mdeavr]

He's half japonese

[@deedin6082]

Hideaki Anno, Hayao Miyazaki, Mamoru Oshii...

[@dalia5728]

this is amazing i love all the new videos! super interessant

[@TVPaint]

Thank you Dalia, I work hard on making them as good as possible. 😉 - Benjamin

[@Haradas]

Une vidéo avec Ken Arto ? YES ! (┛◉Д◉)┛

[@bleachno9]

I've watched a few videos with Ken in them since watching Trash Taste and I've noticed the way he speaks in french is really cool. He almost speaks it in a way similar to native spanish people speaking French. Perhaps due to the similar phonology between japanese and spanish.

[@StudioArtFX]

This was a great video. More and more I find myself using the new sketch panel and the colored pens to mark my shadows and highlight. Still it is a *shame* that BONES has to *print* all that clean, digital, layered work to *paper* so the key animator can make corrections. Then, they have to scan it back in to work on it more. The industry is *struggling!* Processes like this need to get updated quickly.

[@inisipisTV]

It's quite tricky, especially a lot of studios are working 24 hr 7 days a week none stop. Converting to 100% digital requires a lot of down time as well capital. Especially a lot of artist working on a show are free-lance workers doing their job at home, most of them don't have the funds for the hardware and software to use. A lot of scenes are even handed out to smaller studios that are usually just a condo with 4 to 6 artist working. Compounding the fact that a lot of studios are using different software system to their animation. Toei here uses Retas-pro, others uses Animo or ToonBoom etc.

[@StudioArtFX]

@@inisipisTV And let's not forget outsourcing. I worked with a Chinese outsourcing studio in Shanghai for a while, doing overflow work from *Korean* studios, who were doing outsourcing work on Japanese projects. Everything was pretty much done on paper. (at a few cents per drawing I might add) When considering the cost of things like Cintiq tablets (and we had a deal with Wacom China) or iPad Pro tablets and the software, necessary for each artist, the upgrade costs add up quick. On the slip side, though, *not* doing it, is just kicking a can on a string a little bit further down the road.

[@sentrazyven762]

Who's just going around looking for Ken Arto's works from Trash Taste?

[@oleghrozman4172]

Wow! Non-japanese animator work in anime studio?! So i still have hope to work in Bones studio! Thank you!

[@kdvr766]

Japanese studio usually out source outside japan, its pretty common. I actually did a few in betweens of this series and clean ups.

[@bryangonzalez853]

@@kdvr766 wow can we see it?!

[@sohankunjera1704]

@@kdvr766 btw how we can do internships remotely in studios like bones for beginners?

[@tecnomancer6683]

Sorry, I do not speak much English and I did not understand much of what he was talking about, but the little I understood was already a great learning experience for me, excellent vídeo! ( i use google translator)

[@TVPaint]

Thank you! I'm glad it helped you.

[@somaeleric3456]

thats our BOY

[@ashketchup.01]

very nice. ken arto is very good

[@mikysb1434]

The explaining is good, i don't like how he explains the sō sakuga kantoku, i think that the role should be translated to Animation Supervisor, because he is the one that gets the corrected shots and edits them to correct them even more, this is actually called supervising.

[@Shayed07121997]

amazing video. loved the insights thank uuu

[@Thunder-ky3qm]

this got recommended to me after trash taste

[@arcaneraccoonart]

I saw this video in recommended and thought it was Mike Shinoda on the thumbnail lmao

[@greatneos]

Half japanese half caucasian.

[@Brenners2010]

Am I right in saying that Yapiko don't entirely animate in TVPaint? They seem to have have a workflow where the lead animator works exclusively on paper and the other animators use TVPaint? I wonder why this is? Is it not possible to have a workflow that uses TVPaint exclusively? Any helpful information would be great! Thanks

[@MINISWISS1]

so inspirational

[@greatneos]

His mustache and beard reminds me of mike shinoda, and they are both half caucasian half japanese.

[@ViktorSoponyai]

Amiga Forever! ;)

[@kuyajaypi]

Great video! Is it possible to give some information on the toolsettings for the sketch panel? I also want to make use of it, but I don't really know how to use it to organize the celshading for the light, shadows and gradients as he explained it. When I filled in the colors, how do I make the lines disappear? Once I delete the colored lines, the Color Layer changes as well since the borders disappear. Also: Which pen-tool does he use in combination with the 3 points spline? If I use the Black Pen brush, the size of my lines are way thinner when using my tablet due to the pressure sensitivity.

[@Shinkami_Chuu]

Maybe try the YT channel Striving for Animation, they have very complete videos about storyboard to 2nd Genga/key (and they plan to do every step of animation after that in the future). Very instructive.

[@subhasishmandal2023]

Trash Taste Thanks KZbin for recommendation.

[@animassauro6687]

Incrível!!!!

[@markusbluebird3229]

What software is that

[@Henbot]

Seems inefficient printing it all off for paper only to scan it again. Insightful video certainly

[@TVPaint]

That's the point of getting to full digital animation in studios. ;)

[@samuellubota2181]

ou j peut telecharger tv paint animation 11 gratuit ?

[@LucasTbooker]

What language is he speaking? Beautiful!

[@sakurachannel9624]

It sounds like French

[@allenwalker2453]

Yep its french

[@Flackoshiggy]

Le français

[@erichidalgo2155]

I ever seen animation stroryboards

[@geokorf]

Mac from Philly anyone :)

[@belikejjf549]

Came here because of trashtaste

[@ZaquWasTaken]

i got reccommended this bcus of Trash Taste

[@samhue4194]

Me too

[@debo12347]

Is he ken xyro?

[@junior-qv4og]

Stp c quel logiciel ?0:23

[@sofianefedlaoui9835]

junior c’est sur tvpaint c’est un logiciel d’animation payant il y’a aussi une version d’évaluation mais la contrainte c’est que tu ne peux pas enregistrer ce que tu fais

[@ryad9973]

:)