Traditional Animation // Animating on Paper

[@christinevergara5357]

My dad was an animator for Walt Disney for a little over a decade and ever since I was a kid, I had always wanted to learn traditional animation. He’s been a really hard alcoholic and can’t really teach me anymore. Thanks so much for uploading this!

[@zarastorm4981]

Wow that is so cool

[@christinevergara5357]

@UlookBeautifultoday. Michael A Toth is his name

[@HwoarangtheBoomerang]

:(

[@ammonweser4839]

I've been watching several animation tutorials, and it seems the way you're doing it isn't the way professionals are teaching it. What I've seen them do is start off with opening and closing positions; then they draw the position that goes in between the first and last frame; then they draw a position that goes in between the first and middle, and middle and last (1/4, 3/4). Depending on how fast they want the animation, they'll just keep "halving" it by drawing more frames in between the positions that they have. This seems to make sense if you're trying to control the motion more (ex. start off fast, but then slows down) I do appreciate how quick this tutorial is.

[@garbageman4412]

I’m pretty sure what you’re talking about is pose to pose and straight ahead animating. Pose to pose is usually used in most things like walking. But straight ahead animating is used on stuff like fire where you can’t like predict how it moves and you can’t tween it, so you do one frame after another.

[@garbageman4412]

Also this is one month late.

[@MrMarsFargo]

Yeah, it depends how much dialogue is in that scene. Like, in a scenario like this they'll still do that but usually there is more freedom to time what's in between. With heavy dialogue scene, they have to do that and then draw every mouth position, time it in the animatic, and slowly narrow it down by eliminating more and more of the frames in between.

[@nishathfathima5977]

Thanks for this comment

[@ti2218]

I used to animate with the stop motion camera on my 3DS when I was younger, primarily using stick figure characters. Now that I'm older and more experienced with detail, shading, anatomy, poses and perspective, I'm excited to get back into it. Thanks!

[@kizzysnow4392]

I'm actually doing that now!

[@F1nchDuh]

You use the straight ahead method instead of pose to pose. i learned by drawing the key main frames Then did the imbetweens

[@grace_edge]

I've been trying to get more into paper animation but I was never able to properly align the frames to do it. This is extreme helpful! Thanks!

[@Pypahsart]

very glad it was helpful!! xx

[@Randamu-Chan]

I don't have a light box : ( Is there any alternatives?

[@Sophie-pz8rb]

what did (for very small pieces of paper) is i took a plastic lid to use as my surface then i wrapped my fairy lights around a pencil and held that under the lid. It worked well for me since i just wanted to make something small. I hope this helps!

[@Randamu-Chan]

Trash Thanks man :)

[@catzaj415]

A light under a plastic box like a phone light and cover it with the box and put the paper over the box and bam a diy light box lol

[@FuatKarakahya]

an Ipad

[@just3ntime]

Randamu Chan dbmier A4S lightpad is for about 30 dollars, very cheap compared to regular lightboxes, which can be up to 200 dollars.

[@takesonetoknowone20003]

You can draw every frame with movements and with out mouth and have the moving mouth saved,it saves you time and makes the animation look food if done corectly

[@sam.k2501]

This was pretty helpful. From the get go I knew that traditional style animation was the way to go for me as the thing I'll be makimg hopefully soon would be perfect for this style. So thank you very much for this little tutorial, I'm sure there's alot more to it than just adding layers on top of each other but for now it'll do for a little test run. Cheers!

[@esmineldraaybara6975]

My only problem is how to convert the hard copy into soft copy, I have drawn 90 pages and I dont have a scanner or money to get my drawings scanned. Clicking photos is a pain in the arse, it always gets the wrong angle or some shadow or something like that. Any help or ideas please?

[@TICSTUDIOSLLC]

Hey Pypah! This literally taught me how to get started animating and I've been already posted two animations up on my youtube channel. I'm working on my first big animation and I'm doing all my animations hand drawn. Thank you for this video, it literally helped me get animating!

[@503dude8]

This is really cool. I couldn't imagine how long it would take to do an entire 90 minute movie by yourself!

[@tita4ewaz]

I was a animation major for a short time in the late 90's and this is the simplest most accurate tutorial of how cel animation works fundamentally. It also seems tedious but it just has this great quality digital can't do in the end. Thank you for making this video!

[@BillSchiffbauer]

Nice! Old school, on the cheap and the result looks great!

[@yoshispongegirl]

As a future animator who's finding digital animation a bit of a struggle and has a grandpa who is an artist, this helps me a lot as truly, I just want to draw and animate like this. It feels right to me.

[@srenhaandbk7904]

lol i love how "this is the oldschool way, before everything was so digital" and it's like, a third of the video is computers and scanning xd I did learn from this, don't get me wrong, just found it funny.

[@animationcell]

Thanks for this video. I used to animate only on paper, then did some ToonBoom before retiring. I have a tip for you, thought, if you are going to animate without a peg bar. You can draw 3 X's on a piece of paper that you tape under the drawn layer. In other words, if your drawings are taped on top, your paper with the X's should be taped at the bottom. Let's call it your registration drawing. Then, you insert your registration drawing under each animation drawing and from it you trace the X's. When you scan, you will have registration marks on all drawings. You can erase those in your software and your drawings will all be registered. This is hard to explain without visuals, perhaps I will just soot a tutorial.

[@austing.8517]

Awesome. Great tip

[@lyrasupreme9813]

Thanks I bought 30 Frames of tracing paper just to realise I don't know how to use it this helped me even though mine is a bit low quality because I photographed it on my phone

[@zect556]

If I were her, my eyes will be completely hurt after finish it....

[@zoyaishfaq4004]

Can you tell me how many drawings needs to draw in one second or how many drawings required for two frame??

[@skyfallunoPretzel]

Something simple can take alot of time and still be simple Although I would like a tutorial on how to use the animation software ( what she used to put the images togother and create the animation.

[@zackphy]

Most traditional animation uses key scenes and in-betweening instead of the straight ahead style you're using. That is unless it's a scene of something like fire or a flurry where key scenes would have no clear path between them and need to flow together randomally.

[@tailnottale6128]

Honestly, I think I prefer animation on paper instead of digital

[@maiassaghir3769]

What is the application she used to collect the pictures?

[@hera7859]

Im doing a skateboard traditional animation and just the picture is the hard one i cant get the angle perfect!!!

[@yoboibeerus1387]

I tried to animated a minute out of the secret of NIMH. It took me about 2 months.

[@sohamshet18]

Wow this blew my mind off I love Walt Disney and was fascinated on how he used to make animations and this video really opened my doors to animation.

[@izzyfnt8966]

what machine did you use to scan the papers, and is i expensive? Does the Photoshop app and such cost money?

[@IsllayGirls]

A simple printer, which includes a scanner (you just need a scanner, but a device that only has a scanner is usually more expensive) costs about 80 dollars, and is good enough for the job. Photoshop costs money but there are other programs you can use, like GIMP or other free alternatives.

[@littlemais]

you can download a scanner app on your phone and use some drawing apps to outline your animation or frames.

[@lvbboi9]

maiguk can you recommend me a scanner app?any,i just need one

[@nicothethey4221]

Photoshop is 1000$

[@mauve8762]

Yes you have to rent it it costs quite a lot

[@maya97249]

Amazing, thank you for demonstrating the process!

[@MarkBenge]

you captured a bit of emotion in her face i think it worked

[@jacintaprotar2232]

This was so lovely and very helpful :) I am going to try go back to basics for my final assignment for this year at university. Thank you!!

[@Pypahsart]

good luck! x

[@laurarosamenesesvillegas4736]

I search a Animation of orange-haired girl chases her grandmother in a boat where she goes with death to an island with mist at the end, the grandfather takes her with birds.

[@lpsnadiastars1193]

You are pretty

[@krazykittengamermc1297]

n0 Sh3 iZ N0t!!!

[@mathildecolls]

@@krazykittengamermc1297 ok

[@random_user9302]

@@krazykittengamermc1297 Opinions, opinions. We are free to have them, but not free to put others down with them.

[@khorps4756]

random_user actually we are, it's not illegal to put others down for their opinions, with our own, even in totalitarian countries it is allowed

[@random_user9302]

@@khorps4756 Everyone's natural right is the pursuit of happiness. By limiting them of that, you are infringing their rights.

[@joel0906]

I have light pad but using many papers to animate makes me think i will waste paper😂🍃

[@_murdocisking_]

I wanna do this but I don’t have a light box😢😔

[@biancaking2502]

Peole who dont hab a light box just go to your glass table and add a flashlight at the bottom i want to try this but we dont have a glass table

[@matthewmarsden513]

very fun and nice, BUT use a pegbar

[@jacobm9961]

Just subscribed... great video. Question, can you scan them and do the same things you were doing but in iMovie? And also what is that called, the software that you were doing, can you add voice recorded audio to that?

[@sydmarvel]

I have the exact same questions. Did you ever figure it out?

[@EmileFeik]

@@sydmarvel hi - i knows its been a while, but i don't think imovie would be very good for this kind of thing. Mainly, because the minimum length of a clip allowed is 0.1 seconds i believe. this means all animations would have a very slow frame rate

[@jaya_surya_a5118]

What application she used?!

[@folol1620]

I have a question which pc program are you using ?

[@132_-.]

What is the name of the software

[@oh_oatmeal]

Are there any free alternatives for final cut pro? Thanks

[@randyhendrickson4735]

Yes. Davinci Resolve. It's better at Color Correction than FCP and it does editing and sound just as well. Free.

[@vaangh]

I first animate on the paper then i go on digital to trace it helps with doing sakuga like yutaka Nakamura does i think he does that

[@lifeisbeautiful1037]

Thank you so so much because i Love to make Animations in 5 years old age i think 🤔 how animations are made And this Date i learn my Dream ❤ Thanks for uploading ❤❤

[@river9139]

if animating was easy, i wouldn’t be searching it up for help 😀

[@cshrayproductions4837]

I never knew how hard animation actually was until attempting it!! It makes me really appreciate the effort that goes into each frame we see!

[@angelstarfire]

Thank you! I don't have a light box but I'll use my tablet's light

[@maxdevick7518]

this is how i want to animate when i get my light box, great insight, i cant figure out how to do backrounds though, i am new to animation and i can't figure out how, do i redraw the backround over and over again or something? any tips?

[@dorixom9052]

If you want to make it LOOK like an old animation, you should take pictures.

[@kevinsupreme_ph36yearsago59]

This is how japan creates anime nowadays, even there's pen displays & graphics tablets.

[@lucasreimer4500]

I used sketch paper, then those copy machine transparent sheets and paint the back with white, and I have this box thing that illuminates light throughout it and then I found a old tripod (it’s small) and found a phone holder and made a ghetto thing i take pictures with, it’s a pain in the ass but it’s cheap

[@somebodystrange6]

I tryed doing it even though I only drew 6 frames and made a loop lol.

[@saloaaa8766]

Using a window or getting a light and putting the paper on top of it works

[@saloaaa8766]

oops I meant to put that for another comment

[@alexfranklin7833]

How would I add backrounds

[@AngelicaJBM]

super helpful Thanks!!

[@merza16465]

What is the name of the program?! Do you use a program on your computer?

[@galleryofrogues]

Final Cut Pro I think she said. Pretty universal editing software.

[@strawberrypie1173]

Wow

[@himmelferseartspaultv9981]

thanks and nice music pop out on the video... its vibey

[@leilagem1799]

hi :)) what light box are you using? The one from ur college

[@najdiy]

what application do you use

[@doozeschanyt9554]

What the name of the background music tell me please someone

[@spenklenk]

J. Cole - Wet Dreamz (Instrumental)

[@Mr.M1lkMan]

best vid on this stuff yet.but not ready for me to subscribe

[@joellerma6572]

You know about a program to import the animation into a full scene whit moving background?? I was searching for a program or a tutorial for this for 2 days and i try like 10 different programs and i don't have good results, i don't have one of this drawing tables and i feel like everything didn't work

[@justicemagagane5737]

I never done this before no. I never done this before noooo

[@AnimationPlaysYt]

What happens if you can't scan your animation?

[@theyusishow]

tell me the name of that software please ;)

[@brokendreams8355]

i hate that the people who talk so much before the video

[@omondipierce]

bless you yhis just helped me so much 😭🙏🏿

[@da1king0fwakanda56]

You earned a sub when I heard Wet Dreamz 😂

[@iamRio007]

How to bring all those drawings in motion

[@dragonballz2410]

The character looks a bit like you.

[@waitisthatcobalt]

Hey this is cool, I watch a ton of anime and animation in general and I wanted to give it a shot 😂😂😂 Thats a JCole instrumental in the background playing right?

[@mewik5304]

im so glad i found your yt channel

[@jerartist127]

neat

[@tigerfishh1377]

Great tutorial I just learned something new thanx xx

[@FriedFrogLegsAnimations]

Hey thanks for the tip

[@alex-iz5jv]

Can I do this in any editing software? Cause all I have is I movie on my phone I’m just taking pics

[@aimanpendragons9968]

thank you...this video really help me 😊✨

[@chirantanneog9992]

Legends see this video after 4 years

[@nisha.07]

What's the name of your video editor that you used to animate the drawings?

[@briannaspeer8221]

How would you colorize this?

[@lathithan1064]

Imma do roughly a 100 framed animation in 24 hours. I've never done animation before well only in primary school on the corner of books and I drew stickmen. Whew, wish me luck

[@sadik_77]

Thanks for the idea

[@st.blackeye1851]

Why not do that digitally

[@rogercrownover5950]

...and that is the true magic of paper animation when using a 4b grade tombow mono pencil....and have skating with a pencil fun!

[@MrCoconutcat]

I like this video because I'm a paper kind of a person especially when it's made of post consumer products

[@MrCoconutcat]

I like this video because I'm a paper kind of a person especially when it's made of post consumer products

[@takesonetoknowone20003]

Save yourself time if you want to retrace the picture make a note and number of times you want to retrace it and when you scan the frames duplicate that frame into the amount you want it to

[@thesefooscartoon]

That’s sick 🤟🏽

[@segaoldschoolsega925]

Oooooohhh scanning …….

[@alvarooliva7109]

What paper did you use????!! Please im desperate

[@alvarooliva7109]

Thank you!! And also would i be able to make a 6 min video using this method?

[@marktwayne9796]

@@alvarooliva7109 Well people make entire shows with this method so I think you're safe.

[@isabellaboudreaux2252]

how do you make titles doing hand drawn animation??

[@manuelgaleano7862]

How i can transform one frame to two frames in Photoshop ??

[@kaleighmarchand2047]

My friend is an animator. Also he inspired me to do this.

[@yenn9085]

Watching this in 2022

[@TheBlueed]

thank you so much !

[@lindsaythebe231]

Can I use a smaller size of paper like A5

[@amfvideos6810]

Probably.

[@ArmadusMalaysia]

Goodness, you gotta scan each drawing one at a time?

[@princeradipati1806]

Cole, Cole world🎶

[@Mad.SwizZz]

Love it 🙏🏿

[@thedrumdude1780]

What software did you use to make this

[@frederickphoenix]

Thank you!