Twinkle Nora Rock Me Dance Reanimated | 2D Animation

Always wanted to reanimate that dance of hers ever since I saw it way back haha. A shame the Japanese studio wasn't given the time or the budget to make it any better, which they very well could have(the first one was ok). No amount of auto-interpolation is going to make the dance work, the keys and in-betweens are all over the place (some are held for 20ish frames lol). So I decided to take a crack at it. Opentoonz is pretty kicka$$, I'd say.
Credits to @kenny lauderdale for the reference video: • Video
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2D animation, Opentoonz, Shotcut, anime, Twinkle Nora Rock Me, pencil test, classic anime, bad anime, reanimated, 2D animation process, animation meme

[@FullchainAnimation]

I remember watching this on VHS eons ago with my fellow taks/best friends (now passed away)...we would play it over and again and tear up laughing at how wonky these parts were. So even though a lot of people say my version is 'improved' over the original, I wouldn't want any other version of TNRM than tthe way I found it so many years ago. We laughed at/with her clumsy charm and celebrated just having any anime we could find at specialty stores or comic book shops that doubled as pirate bays for bootleg anime. The notion of this under-budgetted series of colored storyboards (lol)existing is one of my true happy thoughts.

[@thehermit8618]

Now it looks as if Nora is dancing a well rehearsed dance routine and her friend is barely keeping up

[@FullchainAnimation]

😅

[@francotamayo94]

Don’t forget he is the best dancer in the galaxy.

[@robertanderson9447]

Nora's dancing may be really awkward, but she's having too much fun with it to care. That's the vibe your re-animation gives me, and I love that. It fits with the way Nora herself generally acts.

[@FullchainAnimation]

That silly girl we love to root for :)

[@d_trich]

I feel like the original animation was extremely disrespectful to the in-betweeners... But there weren't any in-betweeners, until now

[@Riinkun]

your version of this adds a lot more life to it, I love how much more movement you added between the key poses too even though it would have been much easier to just have her bounce on the spot there too

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thanks! I think I put a lot into it because I had some pent-up frustration on behalf of the animators who worked on it who probably didn't have the budget and time given to them. I remember actually liking the show back when and thought it was charming in a clumsy sort of way. But yeah..had to do it 😄

[@hobomike6935]

one of the best things about the overlap is that Max's expressions make it look like he's jealous of how much extra frames and detailing she gets, in comparison to his shabby slideshow dancing. 0:22

[@FullchainAnimation]

haha true, now that i looked at him

[@IToastMySocks]

Sounds accurate for a self insert lol

[@cadekachelmeier7251]

I have it on good authority that Max is the best dancer in the galaxy.

[@digitaldannie7635]

Your version makes more sense and is actually amazinga charming

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thank you 😊😊😊

[@Snuzzled]

What this really shows is how amazingly awkward that dance is lol. That one move where she has her leg bent, arms straight out, torso twisted one way and head twisted another? What even is that lol. You made this 99 percent coherant but that one frame.... that one frame just can't be salvaged.

[@FullchainAnimation]

Hahaha i was afraid to say it...whoever planned out the key poses can't dance 😄 It's true, you can smoothen her moves but there's no saving her awkwardness (like a little kid messin). Didn't want to change the mains but..dam...😆

[@Snuzzled]

I adore what you did with the spin though, how you gave her a little rebalancing hop since the spin was so slow. But yeah, the choreographer definitely can't dance! 😂

[@FullchainAnimation]

@@Snuzzled yeah..something had to be done 😄

[@hobomike6935]

I was actually gonna ask you if you just _INFERRED_ what she was *trying to do* based on what little frames you had to work with as reference, or if you were just replaying the frames sped up over and over and then "brushing" the movements together with in-betweens. there's so few actual movement and posing from the source material you kinda have to just "guess" and "fill in the blanks" as to how she actually moves; it's hard to tell if she actually lifts her legs for a little kick, or if she's just stepping to the side to do something with her waist and arms.

[@JohnSmith-nj9qo]

If this anime was actually animated Nora would've been remembered as a cute derpy bounty hunter instead of a cursed anime.

[@FullchainAnimation]

haha you think? strangely enough, I'm a fan of that picturebook of an anime. I didn't really intend to one-up their animation style, this was just curiousity XD

[@alexv3375]

That's some seriously good stuff! I especially love how you did her hair bouncing/flipping and her expressions changing as she moves.

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thanks! 😊

[@Danariya1]

I'm so used to seeing this anime having characters move with a pace of a slide show presentation that watching Nora move this smoothly feels wrong Amazing work, you've nailed the artstyle and the movements feel so alive and bouncy!

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thanks! It's my 'What If' take on her :)

[@TheBlueStarGal2]

You put waaaay too much effort in this. Fantastic job, my condolences to any pain you suffered lol. But this truly shows that a lack of in-betweens is not the main issue here. These poses are super janky, and they definitely don't match up with the music. This proves to me that this is less of "ran out of money before we could finish" and more of "knew we couldn't finish in the first place so rushed this as much as possible". Poor thing needs to be reworked from the ground up, but you really breathed some needed life into it with what you had. So again, beautiful job! I wonder if I should start a reanimate project on this lol

[@FullchainAnimation]

True, and Japanese animation isn't really known for its dance scenes, it's just not their strength lol. The only way to truly 'fix' this is to ignore all the given poses completely like you said. I made sure to use the mains though, for more of an homage rather than a retcon. I agree, those poses don't even fit the music haha (I bet they didn't even have the tune when they made it). I'm glad it's making you think of a reanimate project, that's cool 😊

[@TheBlueStarGal2]

@@FullchainAnimation yeah, you really can't even imagine what the in-betweens where _supposed_ to look like. Like, none of these moves flow into one another in a natural way, so it really makes it seem like there was no plan to add them to begin with. And even if the poses where amazing and it flowed perfectly, half of the dance sequence is recycled reverse shots, so it would _still_ be super janky regardless lol. And you just made me notice that anime doesn't really have dance scenes, but I wouldn't say it's cause it's not their strong suit (cause it wouldn't be too off from a fight scene), I think it's just a cultural preference. But yeah, idk if I should be a part of a reanimated project, or bite the bullet and just remake the whole dance scene. Probably neither, but it would be cool to try lol

[@jamessmithsr.5737]

Why only 300 views? This is criminally wrong. This deserves more.

[@FullchainAnimation]

hahah..thanks much 😊 Glad you liked it and, much more, get it. Maybe that cold algorithm will just up and wake up one day? 😄

[@stephenhaag2358]

I love the way her hair moves

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thanks, it was the main thing that I was left unsatisfied with in the original 😄

[@joadarium9605]

We need this whole OVA reanimated 😭 anyway great job!!

[@FullchainAnimation]

Lol thanks. Im kinda two ways about it. I mean, i actually like how janky the original is, charming in its own way

[@NIDELLANEUM]

I like how this (well made) reanimation makes Max's "we are the best dancing partners!" look like he is unaware of how badly he's dancing, while Nora is all into the dance

[@FullchainAnimation]

😂😂😂

[@KaisTheFireWarrior]

I remember hearing that the film was intentionally made in very noticeable frames to simulate manga because the creator of nora liked the manga or something like that

[@benderchump]

And there’s the animator dancing beside her😂

[@FullchainAnimation]

😄

[@RicardoCon94]

I'm actually kinda happy people are still making content of this OVA lol.

[@FullchainAnimation]

Its Legend lol

[@francreeps4509]

Now she looks like she's awkwardly dancing but having fun as opposed to the short guy who can't dance at all

[@FullchainAnimation]

Exactly what I was going for 😇

[@DarrenTAnims]

Great work. And I love the composite at the end. It really brings it together 😃

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thanks Darren! I used Noise and Blur filters to match (kinda) the VHS look on the original. I'm loving how Opentoonz was truly designed for old dogs like me who came from traditional 😊😊😊 phew...now I can finish up on that last monster challenge we were doing haha

[@DarrenTAnims]

@@FullchainAnimationOpenToonz really fits to how I remember animation being made, so fits to how I like to work too 🙂 I can't wait to see your completed monster

[@FullchainAnimation]

@@DarrenTAnims I'm sure to be compelled to do that today, it's a great way to implement whatever something new I've learned in OT. When I tested the month-trial on AdobeAnimate, I found they hardly added anything different from the (now) free Flash MX. An expensive program that has no clue what 2D animators need. I mean...no shift-trace?? Clumsy timeline management too.

[@THE_Dodge_Morningstar]

Wow! That's really an amazing job. 😁I especially like how it makes it seem like the little guy is trying to learn the dance, watching Nora while trying to copy some of her moves, so the different animation makes sense. You're ridiculously talented

[@FullchainAnimation]

haha...yeah that IS how it ended up looking, unintentionally XD

[@hobomike6935]

@@FullchainAnimation I would commission you to repair Max’s dancing as well if you had a link or the SuperThanks feature enabled 😂 very good animation quality

[@FullchainAnimation]

@@hobomike6935 wow thanks mate thats a big compliment! If my plate wasn't full right now I'd have taken that on haha.

[@stheteller7470]

Finally the animation slaps well enough that I can appreciate her design! Excellent work!

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thank you 😊😊😊

[@coolandlongmusicalbumsmusi3666]

I don't know what the original "animation" but this is a huge improvement!

[@FullchainAnimation]

😂thanks

[@fullmetal-animator]

Beautiful spontaneouty and motion in the primary and secondary actions. And the timing and spacing is just bang on. Even the fact you fixed how the feet weren't even planted in the original is a major plus.

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thanks very much! Nora still doesn't know how to dance, but at least her hair is moving 😄😄😄

[@MobiusGT]

man this looks great, i would definitely rewatch the train wreck that is twinkle nora rock me if it was reanimated like this

[@FullchainAnimation]

awww :) time for a gfundme page? lol

[@MobiusGT]

@@FullchainAnimation make it happen, I'd contribute.

[@FullchainAnimation]

@@MobiusGT wow...Ill have to notch that in as a pet/dream project. For now my plate's pretty full though>.< but I might bring it up with a friend who's familiar with how to get grants for short films :)

[@MobiusGT]

@@FullchainAnimation no worries, literally everything is more important than twinkle nora rock me, that said fingers crossed it works out.

[@rosskwolfe]

Dang... You took a hilariously unfinished scene and made it legitimately awesome. Well done, sir... well done.

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thank you :)

[@alexp.7068]

When the roughs are better animated than the original

[@jcrewq]

This is pretty charming actually. Flattering how you make the animation flow like that

[@rushnerd]

I uploaded this full movie to youtube and I come back here every so often to remind myself of what an amazing movie it could of been. Absolutely love your animation!

[@FullchainAnimation]

Yeah, I still like it as is, but it could have been so much more.

[@kurrydraco]

This is really cool! I also love the way the hair moves, it's really satisfying

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thanks! I felt the original version's hair was begging for more movement, glad you caught it😊

[@074_edwardmuzhaffarghifari3]

Even your " roughs " are way more fluid than the original, great job 👍👍 what app do you use btw ?

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thanks 😊 I used Opentoonz on this

[@Noonenowhere112]

Omg it's so cute 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 I wish that it was the original lol , kinda sad the anime didn't get the same amazing animation you did. Keep it up!!!

[@FullchainAnimation]

Tyvm😊 Im sure they just didnt have a budget or time to get it done nicely back then, I jus had to lol. Took forever though so I get why they didnt do it any better 😅

[@tariqshareef2877]

Fantastic, huge improvement.

[@PalmistsHouse]

I love the way you've animated her hair!

[@Igorcastrochucre]

You could've just redrawn the frames and add some in-betweens, but you went the extra mile. You are awesome.

[@BrigadoonZyphoon]

Terrific!

[@pipipsy]

How does this have so little views, it's so good-!

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thanks 😊 I hope it does get more views 😄

[@Xylospring]

I love How bouncy the hair is! So much love for that hairflow.

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thanks! 😊

[@pachi1014]

thank you for not animating her sidekick that closely resembles the director HAHAHA but yeah anyway this is really good!!

[@FullchainAnimation]

🥰

[@thereseclairecreates]

Omg this amazing!!! I love it! It's giving me cool world vibes a bit!

[@FullchainAnimation]

Ooo thanks! I do like the animation in CoolWorld 😊

[@icantchooseamaindps6322]

Why does this have 4k views and 611 likes THIS IS A MASTERPIECE IT NEEDS MORE

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thanks for that 😊

[@andresmu9375]

Man, this is amazing!!!

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thanks!

[@Ratciclefan]

You did it It's actually animated now

[@ElectricPoodleArtInk]

Wonderful job! I like how much spark you added to her dance! :D

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thanks very much! 😊

[@ElectricPoodleArtInk]

@@FullchainAnimation You're welcome!

[@yukinomose5728]

I love the face expression of Nora so far

[@Mark_nobody3]

No way, it has been decades and you Brought part of a old gem back to life, you are a incredible person

[@gabsy_ferreira]

The hair movements 🥰

[@HauntedCicadaSongs]

absolutely stunning!!!!!!!!!

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thanks very much!😊

[@Synetik]

This is awesome!

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thank you !

[@M.S.Y.C]

much better

[@Deuteromis]

How dare you try and improve this dance scene it already was a masterpiece!

[@kejiri3593]

This looks very good!

[@poodled7794]

Amazing work dude!

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thank you! 😊

[@ruibarata6259]

niceeee!!! X)

[@lebro4401]

Twinkle nora rock me but animated by Disney

[@FullchainAnimation]

cheers :) recently ran it through Flowframes to turn it 48fps, looks pretty cool >kzbin.info/www/bejne/bWitmmiemd-qp68si=GH59Ew03CbHaIhRu&t=222

[@nicy8711]

damn you are very good doing animation I envy you because I can even animate but everything is orivel, but you are very good seriously continue that one day you can go far

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thanks for that 😊

[@Yukkuri_Yakumo]

Damn this is good

[@shia8938]

The poses really looks dynamic and it looks like 3D animation since there's a lot of moving parts huhuhu

[@UnModern]

Very coolstuff

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thanks! :)

[@vinzer72frie]

very nice

[@RamiOmarRaheem]

Lovely, keep going.

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thanks, will do :)

[@DennisTamayo]

Wish you can be a future animator at Toei Animation Philippines.

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thanks, that sounds great :) I'd probably have a hard time at the start adjusting to the clean style of anime again, most of my years were in Western-style animation studios. Years ago I worked for a small Korean-owned studio doing subcon work for Japan, but that was a long time ago XD

[@CartoonspaceNet]

Excellent moves, very well done. 👌😊

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thanks! Have you given Opentoonz a try? It's the easy timeline management and shift n trace feature that got me hooked.

[@CartoonspaceNet]

@@FullchainAnimation You're welcome. I only know it exists but never seriously tried it maybe I had it installed once but I got scared of the interface since I was so used to P2D :) I should try it again..

[@FullchainAnimation]

@@CartoonspaceNet lots of tutorials for it so the learning curve is less steep.

[@loisannebarin6995]

This is so well made!!

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thanks very much 😊

[@alanmcmillian]

This is really nice, especially how she stays on beat with the awkward keys. It looks like it's on ones. Did you try it on twos to emulate how it might have looked in a typical anime budget?

[@FullchainAnimation]

I stay loose with the exposures, anywhere from 1s to 4s in motion, while some situations call for 2 frames for a Hold lol. Its cool how you caught that I stayed to the poses they made for her, adjusting the timing so she's to the beat. Those awkward dance poses are still so charming to me haha.

[@alanmcmillian]

The whole anime looks like they just went to the tie downs from the keys and skipped the in-betweens. I would think that any animator would have to animate to those key frames no matter how wonky. Did you use timing charts? I didn't see any notations on the first pass. Also, I didn't know the individual frames were still called exposures. Must be a holdover from the days of optical down shooters

[@FullchainAnimation]

@@alanmcmillian oh..I didn't bother writing a chart since I was doing the inbetweens myself anyway, just adjusted freely as I went. You're right about 'exposures', we were still using those monster Oxberry cameras ( was fun to chat with and watch the cameramen do their thing)

[@alanmcmillian]

@@FullchainAnimation That's very cool. I've been learning about the finer points of animation because of a video game project. Sprite animation is a different beast but I try to learn as much as possible about all forms of the art. If you started working with actual cameras you must've been in the business for a while.

[@FullchainAnimation]

@@alanmcmillian started as an assistant anim in 1987 lol

[@kategorospe8147]

💟👏🏻

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thanks Kate! :)

[@Panalo_TV]

panalo to derik,,idol

[@FullchainAnimation]

😄 Thanks Jay!

[@JBarista08]

So full chain, did you work on the 2000s Disney cartoons like house of mouse and do you have more Disneytoon animations

[@FullchainAnimation]

I'd left Toon City(Manila) before they started on House of Mouse. But I was around for a lot of TV series there like Aladdin, Timon and Pumbaa, Duck Daze. Years later I ended up at Disneytoon Australia for Lilo n Stitch 2, Bambi 2 and Bro Bear 2 (i liked Lilo and Bambi, but BroBear not so much). I kept very little of my linetests sadly, but I have some that I will post here in future :). Also I'm looking for the videos that have my scenes in them so I can compile them. I did some for Warner's Looney Tunes and the Animaniacs reboot.

[@JBarista08]

@@FullchainAnimation Anyway, what softwares did the both studios use for the coloring process of their films and TV shows?

[@JBarista08]

@@FullchainAnimation And did Disneytoons Australia still use C.A.P.S for coloring even when it's parent studio stopped or did they just us Toon boom

[@FullchainAnimation]

@@JBarista08 I'm not completely sure. They might have used Animo? Used to be industry standard.

[@FullchainAnimation]

@@JBarista08 I guess I was too busy animating to notice. I don't even know what the color department looked like or where it was haha

[@vincentveryvile5051]

Now just remove that oompa loompa to the right and it's perfect!

[@FullchainAnimation]

😄

[@danielhoover2394]

I love this! This is amazing!! How long did it take you to make this?

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thanks! It took 5 days because it kept crashing and I'd give up for the day lol

[@danielhoover2394]

@@FullchainAnimation You know what would be cool? If some KZbin animators came together to do this as a project. One would handle the minor action scenes, another the major ones, someone to handle the dancing (such as you 😁), and someone to handle everything in between. It's a cute anime, just so badly animated. Judging by the well drawn story boards, they were really going for something.

[@FullchainAnimation]

@@danielhoover2394 ive always had a soft spot for it, even enjoying how wonkily it was made. A major reanimation project is part of my fantasy for it too. Probably be game if someone hosted the map lol

[@sargentsteve7148]

They are dancing on extremely low fps

[@RaginKavu]

Too much fluidity. Go to Ghibli or Disney, you're not Nora material.

[@gunstarr8]

Hmm, interesting. Makes me wanna see the whole thing fully reanimated.🤔📝

[@FullchainAnimation]

Me too :) maybe theyll do a reboot one day, I'll take a 3D version anything. I just do like the character, seems wasted.

[@lauramaue]

Oh man, it looks so much better now that it has, y’know… inbetweens lol

[@FullchainAnimation]

😅hey now, some of my best friends are inbetweeners lol. srsly though, the old sleeping weeb in me likes the wonky version the way I saw it years ago. this is just an exercise an animator HAD to do.

[@hisnotsolonely2961]

CONGRATS YOU ARE BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL ANIMATORS!

[@MazingerDestro]

The irony is that this well animated clip is how the average good production anime movie looked back then

[@FullchainAnimation]

True 😊 I cant even bring myself to categorize Urotsukidoji under p*rn, it was so well-crafted.

[@MazingerDestro]

@@FullchainAnimation 🤣

[@MazingerDestro]

Would you mind if i use your clip in a video explaining each step of animation? ​@@FullchainAnimation

[@FullchainAnimation]

@@MazingerDestro sounds cool actually, go for it 😎

[@MazingerDestro]

@@FullchainAnimation 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️

[@Dragonrider1227]

That’s really good!

[@naturalistmind]

Imagine if the person who made this anime got to see all those hot frames...

[@ZZtheDark]

Nice going,yo.

[@FullchainAnimation]

Thanks much! She wouldn't let me sleep haha

[@ZZtheDark]

@@FullchainAnimation I know. Nora drives everyone insane. X_X

[@FullchainAnimation]

@@ZZtheDark haha yeah...its not even that I hated the anime, quite like it actually. But I'm sure most any old anime fan who happens to be an animator too would feel some sort of itch to try something with it.

[@ZZtheDark]

@@FullchainAnimation Tbh,I watched Nora's OVAs and read some of the mangas and read about her creator and its quite interesting. Something a lot of anime fans would love to see.