Welcome to the Mind Palace is a concept animated series about a guy whose personality traits are "personified" as little people in his head. The Mind Palace itself includes everything from memories to life hacks to random stuff that happens. His "Sides" take on adventures of their own in His head, as he tries to go about his daily life.
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Thanks for the video! Please may you make a short video on how it sounds while drawing with the normal nibs and if possible, drawing with felt tip nibs as well Thanks once again and it's ok if you can't if it's inconvenient!
I’m glad you found a tablet you truly liked that you use full time besides using iPad when you go out and about. This video was informative to know about the tablet.
how about the costs? how much did you pay per keyframes/inbetweens/voices, average cost per video etc? Just the ballpark is already helpful enough thanks
Let’s look at animation only, as an example. Assuming I am a terrible studio that pays super low: I pay $30 per shot, for every part of the process (4 steps I pay for: roughs, cleanup, inbetweens, coloring). I have 57 shots on one of my recent animations. 57 shots x $30 x (4 steps of the pipeline) alone is around $6,840, and that’s if every shot is consistent. Some shots I’ve paid over $200 for, some for lower than $15 sometimes. This will dramatically increase costs, especially for bigger animations and if I want to pay my team fairly while also trying to, y’know, actually *pay rent* and such. That’s not even taking into consideration paying for voice actors, background artists, character reference artists, compositor, digital software, etc. And this animation itself only turned out to be like 6 minutes long. Imagine trying to make a 30 minute long anime episode with just my small team. This is why I do 90% of the shots myself, to save on costs. Why do you think indie productions need so much funding? It took Critical Role nearly $11 million to help produce just the first season of The Legend of Vox Machina, before Amazon Prime picked it up. Animation. Is. Expensive.
Summary: BASIC - Red Lines (Highlights): Shows where light is hitting a subject - Blue Lines (Shadows): Indicates where the shadow is supposed to be ADVANCED - Green Lines (Gradient Markers): Shows the transition of gradients - Green Lines (Blushes): Indicates different types of blushes - Red/Magenta Lines (Patterns): Separates patterns to make them easier to see without the line art making things confusing
This is the first time I've heard someone mention RETAS. Hardly anyone knows it used to be the anime industry standard (though it has now been replaced by csp)
Yeah..I only mention Retas so often in vids because it’s basically in all the legacy footage we see from anime studios nowadays, which is more or less all we have outside of the occasional RU-vidr touring an anime studio 😭
I appreciate your interesting positive take on this. When you have haters, you are successful. When you have fans, you are successful. Keep pushing ahead. :D
Personally I use Retas for this. It's slightly faster. Especially for coloring since it will auto color the color lines (you can see this in the violet evergarden clip).
I would love to use Retas more when I have the chance, but I’m iPad only. Thankfully CSP is more accessible, and the method I’m showing can be done with most drawing software anyways.
I'd like to point out a few downsides of using CSP for coloring instead of a tool specialized for it like OpenToonz or Retas PaintMan: 1. Fewer coloring features: those programs have tools designed to make coloring easier and faster. 2. No pixel check: with CSP there are no functions to check if you have missing stray pixels 3. The line smoothing feature in CSP is not great. The algorithm used is far inferior to OLM Smoother and PSOFT anti aliasing, leaving some lines to still look somewhat jaggy and weird. I know OpenToonz has a smoothing algorithm but I haven't seen it so I can't speak about its quality. Using CSP still has the advantage of only having to use/learn one software, so I'm not trying to dismiss this video at all! Just letting people know what the alternatives offer :)
