how not to make an animatic

documenting the absolute mess that was the process of making this animatic • 【天官赐福】The Answer to Ev...
programs used: clip studio paint, adobe premiere, adobe photoshop
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[@hisbiscuss1204]

I was like "no one can write worst than I." Bestie, what kind of enchantment table doctor handwriting is this 😭. Love your commentary tho

[@ferdbirb]

LMAO im a normal human being i swear

[@maplehockeylove6339]

@@ferdbirb Hua Cheng we know that's you

[@anuselessmemberofsocietyha7893]

What kind of spell are you planning

[@PandyDaize]

My handwriting isn't completely garbage, but I could barely read it today after speed writing I don't even know what I was talking about thank the lords my teacher didn't ACTUALLY read it! I spelled so much wrong and there were spaces where there shouldn't have been spaces, some spaces were too big, words were spelled incorrectly. I can't write. Just type everything!

[@nobodyasked12345]

I think it looks pretty what......

[@markfromfacebook]

the references part hit me the hardest. "person hugging umbrella" "person hugging the umbrella" "hugging the umbrella" "PERSON EMBRACES UMBRELLA" LIKE SAME however i am glad you created the animatic bc it is so beautiful and i actually have it screen recorded on my phone for when the internet inevitably goes down so THANK YOU FOR GIFTING US ALL WITH IT

[@vahilus]

I need someone to make that google meme where "person embracing umbrella" is in the search bar and google asks "do you mean Hua Cheng?"

[@fangurks]

"i actually have it screen recorded on my phone for when the internet inevitably goes down" SAME DUCKING SAME I have so many thousands of fanart and Insta "incorrect quotes" saved on my phone, and also so so many edits and animatics downloaded (I use a youtube downloader to keep the quality tho, no screenrecording on my watch) and, like, my storage is dying every day, butt I just. Cannot. Risk it getting lost someday and me never being able to rewatch it again.

[@nameless1767]

This is why you need a test subj- I mean model For referencing For me I use my brothers And me Everyone and everything is my reference If I stare at you for too long I did not fall in love with you You are not mesmerizing You are just my t. Drawing reference

[@TheXIIWizard]

@@nameless1767 is the test subject part a treasure hoarder reference?

[@nameless1767]

@@TheXIIWizard fortunately yes 🤔

[@katzianxero]

this video spoke to me on SO MANY levels

[@hakurere3337]

I love you and ferds videos :((

[@xiera4966]

Heyya Kat... Thanks for giving us french hualian again.. I still didn't recover from them😂😂😂😂

[@EveseveE]

Oml I love every one of ur videos ❤️ I try to catch your streams when I can!

[@itsstarryo]

im sobbing because i felt way too perceived

[@cuhwphee4440]

3:44 THIS IS SO RELATABLE OMG I LITERALLY JUST END GIVING UP ON SEARCHING A REFERENCE AND JUST " fuck it i' ll do it myself" 😭😭

[@saltydinonuggies1841]

Camera timers a freaking life saver

[@raizensamson6723]

At this point, if I need an overly specific ref image ill skip even trying to search and do it myself

[@rokamayono8590]

Same, I get so frustrated I just pose for it myself and guess form there. I need to stop making my poses so specific

[@wildmaknae_]

At this point I usually just fire up 3d software (or just,, csp and it's 3d models) and do whatever I want there

[@adamf.charles5857]

Oh boyy, I relate quite a bit to it. Personally, I completely skip the no. 2, "planning" part, I just dissociate while staring blindly onto the wall, replaying and repeating the same song over and over, trying out different outcomes in my head. This part takes me quite a long time, but after few months I have perfect version of the video I want to make. Also - this process can be done with multiple song, so my playlists is basicly movie series for me, at this point XD

[@anna84259]

Same here lmfao

[@golfwang8084]

Same

[@mcbedo6568]

same lol

[@eitakou]

Same, its faster to imagine, crop out and edit them around lol

[@thecheerfulnecromancer2257]

Personally I have a google doc. It contains a single table. On one side is the lyric. On the other is what will be on screen during the lyric. That is it. I do not thumbnail, I do not sketch, I do not storyboard. I completed an entire animatic that way and I was flying by the seat of my pants the entire month it took.

[@evrenviggiano2969]

i know that this is a "how NOT to make an animatic" but i think you gave me a tip for something to actually do next time i'm planning one. make the thumbnail sketches so tiny that you physically can't add any detail so you don't take super long only on the thumbnails. it's genius, it's brilliant, i wish i had thought of that before

[@hen4716]

Im gonna do that for my art scketches whenever i do digital and enlarge it when i finish 👌 I have that same habit and your onto something life changing oml

[@lilmao4482]

@@hen4716that, or make a timer when you’re drawing thumbnails lol

[@spoopyblues214]

I originally used to use lined notebook paper and make rectangles before drawing out the idea, but then I'd never finish anything because once in the program I'd try to put so many more details... only this year have I thought to just take a picture of each individual thumbnail and draw over it to keep it simple lmao

[@_Kamura_]

Yessss I just did a storyboard and I struggled with that

[@estellezarieth9801]

"Person embracing an umvrella,hugging umbrella" OMG i like search "royal amazing cool outfit" and it would say 'search not found...' and I was like **intense angriness*

[@butterqueen767]

“Person cherishing umbrella”

[@aanginsepoy]

honestly, with the flaws you mentioned, i actually really like the kind of "raw" art like yours. and what makes this really perfect is the song. it's really fits the story. these whole combination make me cried hard (bonus point: i got to know zou shen and his angelic voice)

[@saltydinonuggies1841]

Some of my favorite animatics have rough sketchy lines. I love that style honestly.

[@edenontheorbit9778]

Your comment tho is literally me now

[@cookieconkle]

your "planning" is very relatable, even if its absurd how messy it is lol. I'll make a sketch of an animation and it'll just look like crazed scribbling

[@inichan8786]

I LITERALLY WISPERED IN SYNC "We don't talk about 2B"!!! I KNEW IT WAS COMING!!!

[@ivylaa]

I didn't get it- What is 2B? (sorry-)

[@anotherordinaryfellow6935]

​@@ivylaa You got your answer now?💀

[@paavniM1176]

@@anotherordinaryfellow6935 can you explain what it is 2B???

[@anotherordinaryfellow6935]

@@paavniM1176 The Alphabeth A-B and the Number 1-2 So chronologically, =2B (This is a damm lie)

[@paavniM1176]

@@anotherordinaryfellow6935 I'm sorry I still don't get it- is it like something artists do???

[@meliza4276]

I feel so identified with so many things, but the sketches, friend we had the same sketch teacher

[@unebanan8037]

OK BUT THE SEARCHING FOR REFERENCES PART WAS WAY TOO RELATABLE, "PERSON EMBRACES UMBRELLA" SFHDSKJFHDK MOOD 😭 In all seriousness though, thank you so much for sticking with the animatic for so long and sharing it with all of us?? It was really inspiring and beautiful and it motivated me to start drawing/making art again, which incidentally got me through the end of the school year lol. I remember watching it at first and going OH MY GOD IS THIS REAL because it was a) full color b) gorgeous, your art style is adorable and c) lasted the whole song, which also fit the story of TGCF so well. So yeah, thank you for blessing us with your masterpiece, we appreciate all the hard work and thought you put into it ❤️

[@ferdbirb]

Thank you so much for your kind words!! it was all worth it then 😭😭😭 ALSO YEA I ENDED UP HAVING TO MODEL ALL THE POSES IN THE MIRROR AND TAKE A PICTURE OF MYSELF LIKE AN IDIOT

[@unebanan8037]

​@@ferdbirb For sure!! ❤️❤️ And omg lol 😂 honestly though at least it gets the job done. Unfortunately my lil brother is becoming less and less willing to play "dress up games" aka me forcing him to do the poses for me 😅 so don't worry, you're not the only person taking pictures of themself in the mirror bc of the internet's lack of useful reference images

[@moonlight_wolfiez2667]

@@ferdbirb thats what i do, it was embarrassing specially cause a sibling was recording me 😭

[@Zer-ut6hd]

@@ferdbirb my photo gallery completely agrees with you- I, on the other hand, am crying in the corner in art block 😔

[@darkside2554]

i was looking for a reference of someone holding a head. here are the following searches i remember: -person holding face -person holding face first person angle -person cupping face in hands -two people holding each others face -couples cuddling -pose website -reference website -dog -KZbin

[@lenehjx]

THE PLANNING-MY HEAD HURTS PLS I CANT STOP LAUGHING AT THIS I LOVE THIS VID SM Making animatics requires 5 stages of grief

[@plsarguewithme2665]

i somehow feel honoured to find this masterpiece in my recommendations

[@ariagrace8117]

And I feel great joy and an odd sense of community to find someone in this comment section who's a fan of The Taxpayers.

[@tiramiisu0]

same honestly

[@rosedoodle]

this is so painfully relatable, this is my experience with every art project i've ever worked on, good job 😭👏

[@paigecrystatia]

Rosedoodle!! I Never knew you watched these videos, :0 but same… the planning part gets insane lol, I have so much respect for animators that make series because I always get so burnt out

[@shimo4838]

thank you for the “raw” and “flawed” content, it’s what people appreciate more over a so called “aesthetically pleasing and productive” process, because it’s true, and it’s relatable (pls that reference part was me, I was trying to draw xie lian with the umbrella and DEAR GOD I COULD NOT FIND ONE) ….so I pulled out my traditional chinese umbrella I’ve left collecting dust in my closet for years and became a model in front of my mirror, pen in hand and all.

[@melindacao624]

The writing spoke to me very much. At the beginning of the year my handwriting is beautiful, by the end it’s just scribbles in my notebook.

[@e.m.4495]

Oh man the initial planning draft, even the handwriting hits close to home. All hail chaotic visual artists, this is why we dont go into poetry or writing.

[@greydungeon2384]

3:35 - 3:48 Absolute pain of trying to find references

[@thylabyrinth3998]

As an animation student, all of this relates to me. From how long to plan for an animatic (that isn't a complete animation yet), to looking references at google and hope that the search engine can find what I'm looking for is just... *y e s* note to self (and probably people who relates to this): Remember to plan and not just think everything in your head because not planning results you to wonder on how to start you animation even though you can see it in your head (if that makes sense in anyway lol).

[@honeytearays]

The song during the drawing phase I can't-

[@hooralsuwaidi2853]

3:31 , I’ve never heard someone saying “fucking bullshit” so gracefully wtf💀

[@mikismusic]

oh my god this is too relatable even just not making an animatic and just drawing this is too relatable-

[@Insorainity]

"No one can write worse than me" Me: are you challenging me?

[@ruchick6155]

"Oh, you're approaching me?"

[@dragomegaman3711]

@@ruchick6155 yare yare daze

[@STAYLennyz]

@@dragomegaman3711small small daze

[@hellod7961]

YOU DARE TO CHALLENGE ME YOU AMATEUR?!

[@SpaceBeatVT]

The Drawing/ Depression montage spoke to my soul so deeply that I rewound it several times while hysterically laughing and crying

[@Kictor]

This is absolutely amazing! Incredibly intriguing to see the genuine creative process through this hilarious lens. I love your editing style & sound effects voice over etc I could watch you explain anything and it would be super entertaining I’m sure xD

[@onelijayamaha8746]

As someone who only does the "drawing" part, 3:24 to 3:50 was HELLA RELATABLE!! Especially the GODDAMN REFERENCE SEARCHING 😭😭😭 THE background song is PERFECT

[@xina9032]

I've randomly gotten this in my recommendation even though I've never watched your animatic (I will now though), I love your energy and humor! TAKE MY SUB!

[@lazulianwater]

Your animatic is still the best amv I've yet seen for tgcf. I can tell it's rough just line art wise but the emotion that it conveys is undeniable. And the way the frames move, especially during that ghost turned savage scene, gave me all the feels. I could tell so much heart went into this project, thank you so much for spending all that time to give us such a beautiful video. I'm now addicted to that song. :)

[@hylianexpected1171]

OMG the handwriting, SAME

[@MusicFreakthe4th]

I felt the planning part so badly 😭 Sometimes your thoughts just get so messy, or you start making plans in 3 different places, because you write things down at the most random times and just use whatever's closeby Luckily the referencing got solved with 3d models now, there was this one time I took a reference pic of myself, holding an open umbrella in a low perspective, full-on loungewear looking like an absolute mess. Then when I was drawing the pic, a friend was watching it while I streamed it in a call, saw the ref pic in the background and was like "uuhhhh was that you?" Most awkward silence ever 😂😂

[@buttercupkat]

"I'm a person who can't do anything without complaining in multiple ways, so sorry about that." This is the reason I'm here! Keep up your hilarious ranting.

[@__fafa__]

The animatic was beautiful and it was cool seeing the process of how it was created.

[@naguiar2930]

1:49 I don't speak English very well so I couldn't understand this even if I tried ;-; but I've been wanting a video about that animatic for a while, I love your animations, thank you so much for reminding us of those scenes and making us suffer and cry

[@ferdbirb]

thank you so much!! and don't worry i can assure you that no native english speaker can understand it either lol

[@cookieconkle]

@@ferdbirb can confirm

[@mssa222]

@@ferdbirb can confirm ig (??

[@randomcommenter8057]

I love watching animators rant like this one. Makes me feel better about myself 😂

[@uwuangel1998]

Omg your voice is adorable ;;; Anyways thanks for all your hard work and sharing your passion project with us! Would still remain subscribed since I really enjoyed just listening to you ehe

[@jojoslameerrand9305]

this was probably not your intention but this really inspired me to like,,, try and make my own animatic? it's set my expectations pretty realistically and i dont feel as much pressure to finish one. you broke down the process really well and it does feel like a much less scary process (somehow)

[@noellerutledge8789]

This is honestly one of my favorite animation related videos ever. I have a lil collection of them that just...."encapsulate the animator's experience" I call it

[@dazzle3b73]

5:03 that's it, everytime i'll start planning an animatic i'll laugh this laugh of _despair_ 6:55 this is just yes this is _✨art✨_

[@cuddlefishbandit]

I once submitted a 90-something frame animatic in the span of a week to a class for a two-minute animation which I never actually finished by semester’s end. (Photoshop’s animation feature is my personal hell, and the encoder can eat my shoe.) That said, for better or worse, apparently they still show the animatic as an example for the class, so that’s worth at least some of the hell I went through to make it.

[@sephiachayady351]

FERDDDD THIS IS SO RELATABLE 😭😭😭😭 the holding umbrella refrence :') the coloring and drawing 💀💀💀 but the video is so nice i enjoyed ut a lot :D thankyou for making my dayyy

[@AnbaLen]

The animatic was a masterpiece but THIS IS ALSO A MASTERPIECE. I love the effects and humour pacing and ugh. My brain got tickled by this video.

[@sonder2823]

You make great animatics with amazing art and beautiful colors while also being funny as a person?? Wha- YOU HOLD TOO MUCH POWER

[@nansifyanimations]

3:36 BRO THAT’S SO MUCH LIKE MY PROCESS WHILE DRAWING I’M LITERALLY CRYING. I’M SO HAPPY I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE- GOD. I’M HONESTLY SO HAPPY 😭😭😭😭😂 bro I also loved the song behind it. Honestly. Relatable

[@TechnicallyArtist]

This is my process minus the finishing the thing part. It's been like 9 months and I ain't nowhere near completing the animatic I'm making. I'm currently social distancing from mine jsjsjsj Also YES NEEDING EXTREMELY SPECIFIC REFERENCES XDDD that's was so fucking relatable xD

[@ferdbirb]

hope you can finish it!! best of luck to you it's a hard life out there

[@csrain891]

It's nice to know how your masterpiece came to life. I can't draw if it kills me so i can't imagine how much time and effort you put into that animatic. i had the whole thing on repeat for a week and until now, me and my friend still thinks its a masterpiece. thank you for your hard work!!!

[@nagsicle]

Bro I legit sobbed to the animatic It was honestly still good in my eyes

[@dalsta7724]

And what a Glorious mess it is. I like your style. Revisiting the animatic brought back the same feelings as before. Well done.

[@Anxxie]

literally this is my second favorite tgcf animatic, it surprise me a LOT the "short" time you spend working in it. its seems to be make in a year and a half love this video too!

[@nmr7203]

2:52 "Colors ... I don't know anything about colors"

[@eggsxolotl]

I related to this in so many levels-

[@commentbot9510]

Saving 7 versions is so relatable. I usually have like 2 that say final and then I realized I needed to fix something

[@BlankGalaxyGamer-3-imlazy]

Ferd saw a berd then got called a nerd

[@Aldersnap]

3:25 I absolutely lost it at this part this is the most relatable thing-

[@bioluminosity]

perfect encapsulation of that "wait, I'm a someone" moment at 1:00

[@meandmybrogotbreadcrumbs]

This explains art and animation pain in one video

[@lionblaze0384]

those planning sheets are so real. if ur thumbnail art doesn't look like this you haven't degraded your brain enough to make animatics

[@ten-chan1015]

I want to express my appreciation and... uh... respect and... commiseration ... about the woes of... animation, editing... all that sort of shit... (don't look at my yt stuff, because none of my animation efforts ever made it into... anything more than a lackluster shitty gif no one ever saw) and... I just don't have the words... uhm... from one artist with shitty handwriting to another... I feel you.

[@sleepincarnate2988]

I came here because I wanted to make an animatic and I was curious as to how, but I will now refrain until I stop being frightened-

[@leftyfizz]

I *LITRALLY* *P U K E D* Thats what happens when I look at anything I've created

[@pinkishhaven5158]

Siiiiiis you're like my spirit person😂 Literally what I would be like if wasn't shy

[@yushihuangstrophywife2081]

I am so so sorry for laughing at your suffering but this video gave me such a heady rush of serotonin T_T thank you for going through so much to make such a beautiful animatic!!

[@ButterflyColors]

Oh my god the googling super specific reference was so relatable

[@Memoiegotlost]

Struggling to find a reference is so relatable

[@pixie3153]

The relatability chemicals I'm giving off right now are immaculate.

[@TheDremCatcher]

i love and hate how the "looking for reference" part was VERY VERY RELATABLE

[@fralencococia4760]

I AM GLAD YOU UPLOAD THIS AND NOW I LOVE YOUR ART STYLE EVEN MORE (and your memeable personality)

[@ChrisCipher]

"person cherishing umbrella" killed me

[@Ssshmb]

I CAN FEEL THE ANGER HELP I'M DYING 🤣

[@Axe-wieldingFox]

tbh this made me feel so much better about my own process - NOT because mine is ANY better! But because I recognise this so much, except I often get stuck on just listening to the songs and making a storyboard mentally - and then when I wanna write it out I get it all jumbled... But on the off-chance that I actually do manage to make a storyboard, it literally looks like you made it based on the one you showed here lol. I thought that was a sign that I wasn't doing good enough or wasn't motivated enough if I "couldn't even make the storyboard look good" or "professional" but seeing that this is also your starting point, and then how amazing your final product is makes me feel encouraged!

[@szekart8259]

I could go into a long essay about how much I feel this, but all I can say is Mood.

[@bucky.barn3s207]

Here I am, hopelessly obsessed with the animatic still. After having watched it almost a year ago. 🥺💕

[@-themastermind-5843]

OH MY GOD I REMEMBER WATCHING THIS BEFORE I GOT IN THE FANDOM AND I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING, BUT NOW I DO

[@ArcticaTheFox]

I'm completely convinced making big projects is just a different state of consciousness that when we get out of, nothing makes sense and it feels like you blacked out for a couple weeks before returning to normal functioning

[@KaiseaWings]

'Oh.... Well fuck.' I felt that in my *soul* Basically the feeling any time a new creative project takes over 'oh gods DAMMit not again'

[@mixxeph]

I relate to the searching up poses so much it hurts 😭

[@cryptid7322]

THE DRAWING THE SAME LINE LIKE THREE MILLION TIMES OVER AGAIN I FELT THAT SOOOO HAAAARD

[@boi2805]

The searching for poses to refer to and NOT GETTING THE ONE YOU WANT BUT YOUR TOO SHY TO TAKE YOUR OWN PICTURES OR GET OTHERS TO POSE FOR YOU is such a FUCKING MOOD

[@MarTheWorstGaymer]

The search for the right umbrella reference was so insanely relatable

[@Cage-CatYT]

This hits real close home! Making a good amount of my tf2 animation memes (my higher one comes to my mind), it took a lot of my time and I went through these stages 5 times in 3 weeks

[@breezyfeer]

I don't know what I'm doing here because I don't even know these series. But this video popped up in my recommended so now I'm going to watch the show to apreciate the animatic when I see it.

[@sushiroro8522]

As someone who plans to do another animatic but also now a longer and full song, this popping in my recommendations is a sign 🎉🎉 Ngl this is horribly relatable, especially the planning and references part like omggggg

[@stellapassfield590]

Your planning pages look like mine when I start thinking of a fanfic I wanna write. Its a mess and I only vaguely know where things went but it is still my demon love child which I cherish and cringe away from in equal amounts. I love this.

[@childofwelp]

good god i remember watching this video AGES ago when i had no idea what tgcf was and its still hilarious 😭😭

[@itoko05]

Omg 😭 this is gold Also you’re handwriting looks like mine 😂😭

[@kefiraofmasbolle]

LOL as a writer I can definitely relate to this on a spiritual level-I really appreciate the thought and consideration put into your animatic! It was amaZinG 🥺💜

[@20luchian]

Literally the reference part ended me! Even doing one digital drawing I spend sooo much time looking for a reference for a certain pose that's similar to the one in my head, and end up almost losing my shit. 😂

[@Itzaric]

god, i'm a writer but I really felt that part at the end. my handwritting is chicken scratch, and if I don't rewrite my outlines into my computer in the next few days while it's still fresh in my mind, I will completely forget what I wrote and just waste that outline.

[@under_cal]

the handwriting is just very nice to look at incomprehensible scribbles

[@fruitylooperies8166]

I'VE NEVER FELT THE FrUSTRATION OF THE LINEART MORE AHHHH

[@blackstar-nr5ds]

My mom seeing my planning : it seems so... complicated Me : it is Her : u understand this? Me : yup Her: and you made it , u understand this and you can make this even if it is difficult and needs a lot of effort Me: totally Her: ....and you still failed math Me:...

[@cottoncatpersonal]

this is a great video to watch while I've been stuck in a animatic for a month

[@rhiannon5313]

This is so relatable 😂😭😭. I swear, everything Ferd puts up on this channel is comedy gold.

[@gloriousgarlicbread]

BRO I just wanted you to know that I legit think abt this video randomly sometimes, like its in my mental list of great videos with great advice and great storytelling totally not made on crack

[@youarenot8144]

AAA te amooo, sos una geniaaaaa, tu animación quedó hermosa y me encantó que explicaras el proceso, MUCHISIMAS GRACIAS!!!!

[@TheOmega669]

Honestly I was hooked from the first "Hi". The rest was gravy. But what saucy gravy it was.

[@yutamalva1486]

I have never related to anything so deeply on both spiritual and physical level this made me wheeze and cry

[@dull_demon4717]

i feel like a time capsule of this channel has been dropped into my recommended- this is all golden

[@rainIiIy]

HELP IM LITERALLY LIKE THIS IDK HOW PEOPLE CAN DO THESE THINGS SO CLEAN

[@NoiseDay]

I love that you acknowledge that even you can't read your own handwriting