Man I’m sure the Who Framed Roger Rabbit animators would’ve killed for this technology back when they had to add shading and highlights manually for each frame lol
@@elleroy9775 Incorrect, Richard Williams Animation Studio did both the base animations and the shading layers. Ken Ralston and ILM did the optical compositing, the process of aligning all the layers onto a single strip of film for each shot without notable quality loss
I'm glad you stress the usefulness of Blender, since it REALLY IS one of the most versatile programs for sculptors and animators. Also, great tutorial!
Theoretically, you could get a cleaner effect by using multiple keyframes. Though, for the best possible effect, some manual cleaning is probably needed. It is potentially a huge time saver.
@@danielawesome36 i think he's talking about the art style that vector art delivers. everything tends to be super abstract and reduced. like simple geometric primitives. it feels cheap. hand-drawn cartoons like the ones in the video are much more vivid. unfortunately, you don't see that anymore.
@@danielawesome36 vector is fine and relatively underrated, it just has a terrible reputation because companies and artist have used vector based animation software to make cheap, low effort or just amateur animations with it to save on budget and what not so its most commonly associated with stiff and flat looking cartoons and not the "fluid hand drawn 2d quality" that people worship, despite it being relatively capable of delivering good animation that is on or near the same level
If i'm not mistaken you can still download it's latest version, just can't remember where if it was in microsoft's site or somewhere keeping an archive of old programs
It may be different for some people, but you MAY still be able to use Windows Movie Maker 10, and obviously still use Windows Live Essentials that has a "newer" Windows Movie Maker (it sucks, don't recommend) in Windows 10. But personally for me, ever since I updated to Windows 10, they kept removing WMM10 from the system, and I was able to reinstall it until the second update, and now its just an error. RIP.
Now you too can rewatch the cinematic classics in a remaster that makes them look like they were made for TV in the late 90s! We’re even going to add in some brand new scenes and redo others! Then we’ll discontinue sales of the originals, because these new versions are so good nobody could possibly prefer the old ones. You’re welcome!
If you've seen the movie Claus, the makers created a similar program to do most of their shading and it's insane, I nearly thought the movie was 3D but it's a fully hand drawn 2D animation. I also met the lead animator!
Klaus Light and Shadow (KLaS) works in a fundamentally different way, though. It's essentially just a more efficient way of shading with shapes and feathering, nothing Photoshop can't replicate. (Apart from the special trait of Light and Shadow layers being tied together. I don't know how to replicate that) Granted, they do have a tracking system that's, in their words, powerful, but in more complex shots they still need to steer it manually. And arguably it takes a lot lot more time than colouring traditionally, but hey. The results speak for themselves.
Your voice reminds me heavily of Nerrel, in specifically timing and the way you speak. It's clear, to the point, and allows to quick transitions into dryer humor. This is a heavy compliment from me and your work is outstanding.
This is very interesting. And i'd like to utilize it someday. Though the jitteriness in the inbetweens still might be too much to be used in a full fledged animation
Dang, I didn't know EBSynth has an updated app until RUclips recommended me this video. I still have the old "Ebs" purple logo, lol. That's awesome, thanks for making this video!
Just used EbSynth for the first time, and I used it to finally fix Eddy's eyes from that one scene from Ed, Edd n Eddy Season 3 Episode 1B "Momma's Little Ed", when he says to Ed, "Don't make me have to kick you out." The results turned out 100x better than I was expecting, like it was magic. Just think about what this software can do to speed up production, fix minor mistakes to make each episode seem flawless, I hope this stays free forever.
fantastic tutorial. i love that you also showed how to accomplish everything within blender too instead of just telling us to go buy AE (and krita and such). keep it up!
I'm so happy how technology makes things easier, this is amazing, I will always be grateful to these creators, this is a great tool. And thanks to you for teaching
It's kinda Janky tbh.. there's potential there but so far it's a bit too rough to get animation that looks just as good or better than the original. Currently the non shaded looks better/smoother.
This would definitely make shading a lot more easier if you personally drew each frame and knew where to draw on each key frame and breakdown to look more clean, you can also use Blender like the creator of A Fox in Space using grease pencil and the lighting technique.
in fairness, he is using animation that already doesnt need improvment. The technology would probably look more acceptable on an amateaur furry character or something I hate bloom lighting though, all of this overexposed lighting technology can go to hell for all i care
That's absolutely incredible saves so much time it auto making the tweening which is amazing and I'll definitely keep it in mind while doing my work on the bambi scene it looks great but it completely changed the feel to where it looked like it was night time
man, this would be perfect if you could do multiple keys for one sequence. I love the idea of this program but I kinda can't use it unless there's a good way to get rid of the artifacting.
Very impressive software-wise, and a fascinating experiment, but don't forget that the original animation drawings were done with linework that already gave the impression of volume. They weren't designed for this kind of coloring. With the shading too soft and smooth it feels more like a flat object with a bumpy surface, rather than something made fully round. This process should be applied to characters that have been designed with it in mind.
This looks really cool, and it seems it could be real useful. I think this program seems to struggle with the softer, airbrush styled of shading, and might do better with firm cell shading. Not to mention, as much as I too love Blender, it has a strange relationship with colours, and is likely the main reason for why the final products end up looking so. Crusty. I avoid using Blender if I need exporting of things with colour, personally. But I'm sure another editing program, it might clear up the crust and with cell shading, you'd have something akin to perfection! I'll keep this program in mind.
I'm sure that because you used so little keys that this is why it artifacts so much. However, it interpreted quite a lot. Like, I think the best way to do it is have the character on a transparent background, shade your actual keys of the base animation without inbetweens and then composite after. I have a short clip, I might try this on eventually.
@@shivorath Worst case you can do 1 frame, render, pick the best frames, correct them and rerender using them as keys. Could save a looot of time, but hard to tell from a youtube video.
Damn, I wish I saw this video when it came out, but now I can apply it to any animation I choose fit. It's a huge game changer/time saver. Also, I just used Windows Movie Maker not too long ago. If you want to do is just click and drag some clips together, with some light editing, I think it's the program to use. It also has silly 3D effects and filters that I couldn't help but used for into/outro cards.
I have 3 keys because my character turns around, when I came back, the running was done but when I import in into AE as image sequence, some of the frames lost, do you know why?
One of my favorite predictions (of many) from the 1990 sci-fi novel Earth by David Brin was that eventually all "flat" movie classics would be remastered as 3D (actually full stereo 3D). One of the characters made a living redoing Star Wars as 3D in his home studio. How Brin could have thought in 1990 that would possible I'll never know. Now we're seeing fans uprez old Babylon 5 and Star Trek episodes to 4K with new 3D models and FX. Amazing.
@@jones1618 The only problem at the time was recording or rendering and displaying full 3D. We've already reached a point where that level of 3D is entirely possible on a home computer (well, an expensive workstation, but still), we just don't have affordable 3D displays / holographic systems for consumers yet. Cinema had experimented with 3D projections already by the 90s, with things like blue and red glasses, etc, Star Wars had holograms in the movies, Westworld (1973) already had CGI... By comparison Asimov started writing his first robot story in 1939, when the fastest computers at the time ran in the single or low double digits Hz (not mega or gigahertz, just hertz).
@@matiasjopia2850 At the cost of quality? My man, have you seen Mushoku Tensei? They use 3D a lot and nobody bats an eye because almost nobody recognizes they're using 3D outside of some very obvious cases like the dragon. Or watch Paperman, it's entirely 3D.
I tryed ebsynth since open beta (purple) I was amased at how to some open Styletransfer neuronal networks can generate Keyframes for different styles in Videos. :)
Though I don't think I can use it. Thank you for this video and your reference to the free software......... Blender. I didn't understand some of the stuff in it but I suppose that others familiar with advanced animation will get it effortlessly.
Man I’m sure the Who Framed Roger Rabbit animators would’ve killed for this technology back when they had to add shading and highlights manually for each frame lol
Sure. But the 3D effects in Roger Rabbit were not made by the animators, but by "Industrial Light & Magic"
Hopefully not literally
space jam in second place by a little bit
@@elleroy9775 Incorrect, Richard Williams Animation Studio did both the base animations and the shading layers. Ken Ralston and ILM did the optical compositing, the process of aligning all the layers onto a single strip of film for each shot without notable quality loss
@@tyjuarez YOU ARE TOTALLY RIGHT!
Somehow I get the feeling the author is particularly fond of Blender.
Blender is Life
Blender is Love
@@nex_overway I would spread open my cheeks for blender anytime.
@@rr.studios now there's a true blender user
@@nex_overway blender is eternal
Where you get that idea? 🤣
2 years later:
Now blender can use EbSynth!
Blender can create a model from your wishes!
Blender can create a game from your wishes
Blender can all
Blender can even cook for me
Blender gave birth to me
Blender raised my neglected children for me
@@nachokat4710 hahahahahahahaa
Blender is all
I'm glad you stress the usefulness of Blender, since it REALLY IS one of the most versatile programs for sculptors and animators. Also, great tutorial!
some of these frames are a little "muddy" - but I could imagine using this to actually do think "ink and paint" so you wouldn't even have to do that.
Theoretically, you could get a cleaner effect by using multiple keyframes. Though, for the best possible effect, some manual cleaning is probably needed. It is potentially a huge time saver.
@@TheTomimt How do u manually clean it up? WOuld u mind sharing? I'm very new to animation.
@@dovrob You can put the frames back into your animation and color over any rough spots.
@@L_Aster thanks mate
This is how modern tech should be influencing 2D animation, not making everything look like shit with vector art
Yes.
Or making shitty live action remakes of said animations and completely disregarding everything that mdae the 2D animaiton great to begin with.
I have no idea what the issue with vector art is. Can you tell me? Honest question.
_I am so confused._
@@danielawesome36 i think he's talking about the art style that vector art delivers. everything tends to be super abstract and reduced. like simple geometric primitives. it feels cheap. hand-drawn cartoons like the ones in the video are much more vivid. unfortunately, you don't see that anymore.
@@danielawesome36 vector is fine and relatively underrated, it just has a terrible reputation because companies and artist have used vector based animation software to make cheap, low effort or just amateur animations with it to save on budget and what not
so its most commonly associated with stiff and flat looking cartoons and not the "fluid hand drawn 2d quality" that people worship, despite it being relatively capable of delivering good animation that is on or near the same level
You are so skill
yes
Very
very skill
I know, why waste time use big word, when you can use small word to explain?
You're a time traveller right?
You have made this tutorial the same way I talk with my friends... By mentioning Blender whenever I can
_Did you just say B l e n d e r ?_
I particularly like Blender for frying steaks! With Onions!
This perfectly repersents the saying "work smarter, not harder."
“Blender doesnt crash constantly” oh if only that were true.... (cries in 3D)
YES 💀
Now i know about roaches
as someone who is very fond of blender myself, i approve of this video
"Windows Movie Maker of course."
I would die to use Windows Movie Maker again
Darn Windows for nuking it with their update!!
If i'm not mistaken you can still download it's latest version, just can't remember where if it was in microsoft's site or somewhere keeping an archive of old programs
It may be different for some people, but you MAY still be able to use Windows Movie Maker 10, and obviously still use Windows Live Essentials that has a "newer" Windows Movie Maker (it sucks, don't recommend) in Windows 10. But personally for me, ever since I updated to Windows 10, they kept removing WMM10 from the system, and I was able to reinstall it until the second update, and now its just an error. RIP.
This is very similar to the texturing tool that was used in the film Klaus.
I thank you for your kind words about blender *I’ve wired the payment into your account*
For god's sake don't show Disney this or they will try and re-edit everything as the "improved edition".
omg and then they will sell it- jesus
Now you too can rewatch the cinematic classics in a remaster that makes them look like they were made for TV in the late 90s! We’re even going to add in some brand new scenes and redo others! Then we’ll discontinue sales of the originals, because these new versions are so good nobody could possibly prefer the old ones. You’re welcome!
@@khulgarulfsson8067 Bingo.
As long as the original is available I'd buy that
And put them in an NFT or something.
If you've seen the movie Claus, the makers created a similar program to do most of their shading and it's insane, I nearly thought the movie was 3D but it's a fully hand drawn 2D animation. I also met the lead animator!
Klaus Light and Shadow (KLaS) works in a fundamentally different way, though.
It's essentially just a more efficient way of shading with shapes and feathering, nothing Photoshop can't replicate. (Apart from the special trait of Light and Shadow layers being tied together. I don't know how to replicate that)
Granted, they do have a tracking system that's, in their words, powerful, but in more complex shots they still need to steer it manually. And arguably it takes a lot lot more time than colouring traditionally, but hey. The results speak for themselves.
Your voice reminds me heavily of Nerrel, in specifically timing and the way you speak. It's clear, to the point, and allows to quick transitions into dryer humor. This is a heavy compliment from me and your work is outstanding.
I would like to see someone use this technique to make a well shaded animation look simple.
FINALLY SOMEONE THAT APPRECIETES BLENDER PROPERLY
When you check out a vid assuming it's clickbait, but it turns out legit. I've been pleasantly surprised!
5:42
funktilda: Guess which free software you can use.
ME: Blender?
funktilda: Windows Movie Maker, of course.
ME: F*ck!
Good humour
This is very interesting. And i'd like to utilize it someday. Though the jitteriness in the inbetweens still might be too much to be used in a full fledged animation
I make psychedelic music videos so im PUMPED to try this on my next project
The Robin Hood one and the Aristocats looked the best out of all of these, definitely gonna give this software a try
Love the deadpan sense of humor! I am interested in using Ebsynth much like you. Thanks for paving the way.
Dang, I didn't know EBSynth has an updated app until RUclips recommended me this video. I still have the old "Ebs" purple logo, lol. That's awesome, thanks for making this video!
Just used EbSynth for the first time, and I used it to finally fix Eddy's eyes from that one scene from Ed, Edd n Eddy Season 3 Episode 1B "Momma's Little Ed", when he says to Ed, "Don't make me have to kick you out." The results turned out 100x better than I was expecting, like it was magic. Just think about what this software can do to speed up production, fix minor mistakes to make each episode seem flawless, I hope this stays free forever.
The fact that you mentioned blender more than once made me subscribe
fantastic tutorial. i love that you also showed how to accomplish everything within blender too instead of just telling us to go buy AE (and krita and such). keep it up!
Krita is free, and so is Blender. Paint Tool Sai is also like 20 bucks.
Man, this was an awesome video, AE, PR, even B3d, all together shown. Thank you for posting this.
I love your sense of humor.
lmao dude I love your sense of humor, really enjoyed this ad for blender
this is absolutely incredible.
I love your dry comedy delivery. Subscribed
That’s actually amazing. Thank you!
There's potential here, but I feel like a step is missing, the character colors look like its 144p
They all look amazing, I'll definitely use this later. It'll definitely help my significant other as well. Thank you again
I'm so happy how technology makes things easier, this is amazing, I will always be grateful to these creators, this is a great tool. And thanks to you for teaching
That windows movie maker joke actually got me
i haven't used blender in a few years (since i haven't really been into art as of recent!!!) but somehow this video makes me want to use it again
That's an awesome tutorial! Thank you for making it 😊
Thank you for illustrating why I should use EbSynth.
Oh darn, I actually want to try this when I got something to try it on, this genuinely seems fun to do.
It's kinda Janky tbh.. there's potential there but so far it's a bit too rough to get animation that looks just as good or better than the original. Currently the non shaded looks better/smoother.
This would definitely make shading a lot more easier if you personally drew each frame and knew where to draw on each key frame and breakdown to look more clean, you can also use Blender like the creator of A Fox in Space using grease pencil and the lighting technique.
in fairness, he is using animation that already doesnt need improvment.
The technology would probably look more acceptable on an amateaur furry character or something
I hate bloom lighting though, all of this overexposed lighting technology can go to hell for all i care
That's absolutely incredible saves so much time it auto making the tweening which is amazing and I'll definitely keep it in mind while doing my work on the bambi scene it looks great but it completely changed the feel to where it looked like it was night time
i’m so weirdly entertained by the commentary in this HAHAHAA
Wow! Really appreciate this! Been kinda looking for this subconsciously. Thanks man.
This looks a lot like Princess and the Frog or Enchanted with its lighting effects.
This is a very clever use of ebsynth
0:25 Bambi smoked weed
this was a great tutorial, can't wait to try the software out!
man, this would be perfect if you could do multiple keys for one sequence. I love the idea of this program but I kinda can't use it unless there's a good way to get rid of the artifacting.
it looks a bit heavy-handed. I'd like to see the effect a bit more subtle
So fun I can’t wait to try
Very impressive software-wise, and a fascinating experiment, but don't forget that the original animation drawings were done with linework that already gave the impression of volume. They weren't designed for this kind of coloring. With the shading too soft and smooth it feels more like a flat object with a bumpy surface, rather than something made fully round. This process should be applied to characters that have been designed with it in mind.
Amazing video and great humor! :)
This guy made me laugh 5 times in 6 minutes
BLENDER CAN DO EVERYTHING. YES MY FRIEND
brilliant, homie!
This looks really cool, and it seems it could be real useful. I think this program seems to struggle with the softer, airbrush styled of shading, and might do better with firm cell shading.
Not to mention, as much as I too love Blender, it has a strange relationship with colours, and is likely the main reason for why the final products end up looking so. Crusty. I avoid using Blender if I need exporting of things with colour, personally. But I'm sure another editing program, it might clear up the crust and with cell shading, you'd have something akin to perfection! I'll keep this program in mind.
Wow! A Blender Ad! 👀 10/10
Imagine the possibilities from great companies... New remakes coming? More agility on new animations? This is great.
Ver nice technics, thanks for sharing.
Very interesting. Would be cool to see it done on the line animation (without background) that might get rid of the tearing..
wow
thats actually super cool!
Thanks, I will probably use this for my animations as drawing shading scares me while leaving it in flat colors will make it feel lazy.
I subscribed because you suggested the possibility of animating a neon version of that rabbit, just so that you know :D (jk aside, great video!)
I'm sure that because you used so little keys that this is why it artifacts so much. However, it interpreted quite a lot. Like, I think the best way to do it is have the character on a transparent background, shade your actual keys of the base animation without inbetweens and then composite after.
I have a short clip, I might try this on eventually.
Never tried this, but I imagine probably best to have at least 1-2 keys for each second of animation. Still way better than doing every frame.
@@shivorath Worst case you can do 1 frame, render, pick the best frames, correct them and rerender using them as keys. Could save a looot of time, but hard to tell from a youtube video.
1:22 XD
Glad to see some recognition for my old pal, Blender.
5:33 WAIT WHAT?!?!? 😳 🤯 Guess I have to update my version of EB Synth
Excellent.
Very excellent tutorial, dude.
Serious but funny at the same time, nice.
I subbed I hope you make more interesting videos like this
Will try this thanks
Author is in love of blenders free service “
Damn, I wish I saw this video when it came out, but now I can apply it to any animation I choose fit. It's a huge game changer/time saver. Also, I just used Windows Movie Maker not too long ago. If you want to do is just click and drag some clips together, with some light editing, I think it's the program to use. It also has silly 3D effects and filters that I couldn't help but used for into/outro cards.
I have 3 keys because my character turns around, when I came back, the running was done but when I import in into AE as image sequence, some of the frames lost, do you know why?
Imagine showing this software to Walt Disney. The potential he would've seen in it.
Alternative title: how to make classic animation look like 90s bargain bin animation.
It would be an interesting exercise for Disney to do frame-for-frame remakes of their earlier animations completely in 3D.
One of my favorite predictions (of many) from the 1990 sci-fi novel Earth by David Brin was that eventually all "flat" movie classics would be remastered as 3D (actually full stereo 3D). One of the characters made a living redoing Star Wars as 3D in his home studio. How Brin could have thought in 1990 that would possible I'll never know.
Now we're seeing fans uprez old Babylon 5 and Star Trek episodes to 4K with new 3D models and FX. Amazing.
@@jones1618 The only problem at the time was recording or rendering and displaying full 3D. We've already reached a point where that level of 3D is entirely possible on a home computer (well, an expensive workstation, but still), we just don't have affordable 3D displays / holographic systems for consumers yet. Cinema had experimented with 3D projections already by the 90s, with things like blue and red glasses, etc, Star Wars had holograms in the movies, Westworld (1973) already had CGI... By comparison Asimov started writing his first robot story in 1939, when the fastest computers at the time ran in the single or low double digits Hz (not mega or gigahertz, just hertz).
Thanks for a tutorial on how to make any classic animation look like dog meat.
Yooo I love dunking on other video programs with Blender. The compositor and video editing tools are dummy good.
The technology is going to get so good it will probably convert 2D animation to 3D
@@matiasjopia2850 and that would be a lot easier to create they could probably already do that
That sounds like the worst thing ever
@@IYamJayJay and too bad it’s going to happen one day
Would love to see and replicate how klaus did their lighting with this tool if it can someday
@@matiasjopia2850 At the cost of quality? My man, have you seen Mushoku Tensei? They use 3D a lot and nobody bats an eye because almost nobody recognizes they're using 3D outside of some very obvious cases like the dragon.
Or watch Paperman, it's entirely 3D.
Lol, saw Joe ranting about this in the livestream and then I get it recommended. RUclips knows just what I want, it’s scary
Oh I feel like a kid on Christmas finding this
u deserve more subs and likes-
Awesome!
that claus style shading looks off in so many ways , although in claus they took their time to make it look good lol (in kiss the frog too btw)
They did do 5 years to work on it with a bigger team, also they made their own plugin shader for the movie so they’ve got more time to spare.
Imagine „Roger Rabbit“ with this technique.
The bunny looks like its on speed.
Instructions unclear: I can't get this to work on Windows Movie Maker
Diferent but similar than Klaus
I tryed ebsynth since open beta (purple)
I was amased at how to some open Styletransfer neuronal networks can generate Keyframes for different styles in Videos. :)
Though I don't think I can use it. Thank you for this video and your reference to the free software......... Blender. I didn't understand some of the stuff in it but I suppose that others familiar with advanced animation will get it effortlessly.
Blender users: internal screams of excitement
Reminds me of the graphics in Who Framed Roger Rabbit or Space Jam.
Very nice
The thumbnail is just the movie vs. the box art on the dvd
Blender do be making miracles... You guys should download it 😳
I'm surprise Blender didn't sponsor this