After the Spider-verse | What's Next for Animation? 

I'm SO glad you mentioned Paperman! I remember watching that when it first came out and being floored with the concept of 2D and 3D blending together. It created such a beautiful end product, and I'm ecstatic that we're seeing the legacy of that concept start to take greater shape.

This movie sets a new bar for 3D animation. I hope more studios embrace this kind of challenge to think outside of the box and try to replicate what makes 2D so special. "Hotel Transylvania" kinda tries to do that by incorporating Genndy Tartakovsky's signature style with the "stretch and squash" fundamentals of 2D animation, and it works.

those test animations from Prince of Egypt make me swoon

I hope this channel covers Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal one day. It shows what happens when an animation genius is given full creative freedom for a smaller project.

I Lost My Body is a SERIOUSLY underrated movie. Simply BREATHTAKING film.

0:54 i think this applies in a general sense to just about any kind of art. Everything about it should lend itself to the story you want to tell. Animation, music, voice acting, character design, everything.

I'M SORRY DID YOU JUST SHOW LUPIN THE IIIRD? NOBODY TALKS ABOUT LUPIN! OH GOD THANK YOU SO MUCH!

"The art challenges the technology and the technology inspires the art." John Lasseter

My favorite style of animation is when CG areas and 2D characters are combined. Things like Grease Pencil will probably allow for some more great content like that. Also, I hope that ITSV will prompt other companies into putting a lot of work into both their stories and animation.

Animation is limitless. With Phil Lord and Christopher Miller at the helm,, the sky is barely a barrier for them to smash through.

I've been wondering this myself after seeing spider-verse and Klaus, hopefully the next animated movie at this level breaks even more walls

11:50 so basically... its not that technology is just making CG more realistic, its that 2D animation is improving as well as 3D animation to stylize it in many different ways.

Still think Klaus should have won the Oscar in 2020.

Great video. Spiderverse and Klaus are great signs of what's to come for both CG and 2D animation. If I could make one addition to your video I would say the 2D sections should have also featured anime from studios such as ufotable. They are another group of creatives that have been pushing lighting and compositing in 2D to create something less flat and have been evolving their techniques for many years before Klaus. Klaus is a huge step forward in complexity and texturing, but they deserve a mention as well.

The fact that they managed to achieve smear frames in a CGI format is mind-boggling.

Ending song is in so perfect sync with this topic. 1990's Spiderman animated series was one of the first series I remember to feature 3D + 2D animation. It was so cool to watch as a kid and it didn't overdo it. Some things are wiser to just animate using a 3D, like a cityscape / transitions. It would take forever to draw.

we do need more people like Bakshi. Ok, I may not really enjoy most of his films. But, by Jove,he always went into his films with all he had... even if that often wasn't enough, he at least gave it an honest attempt. and that, I can respect more than most Hollywood productions I struggle to even tell apart.

This video has giving my a bunch of new things to watch

3D animation can look like a comic book, painterly, water colour drawings, etc.

Really well done. I have read about the techniques used in Klaus and Into the Spiderverse but this video really put into perspective along with all the other examples just how experimental 3D animation has become recently. As someone who was always kind of bored by the look of 3D it's really exciting. I also kind of hope that incorporating more traditional 2D animation into the 3D blockbusters we'll get more of an interest for quality 2D movies again.

I got the chills with that ending theme. Best youtube animation channel ever created!

Those last few seconds, that "works cited" list... I know what Ill be doing this summer :D Btw, stellar work! You've just been pumping out new stuff left and right lately, take it easy hahaha For real though, thank you so much!

You're channel creates such a calm healing energy that I need so bad during this quarantine. It's your voice mixed with the allowing for pause, quiet music, and just overall love you clearly display with each topic. P.s. I wish more people would talk about Klaus.

That "Bagel!" boink always makes me smile.

I want to see the technology used for Klaus, the manipulation of lighting and shading, to be used in anime. Anime seem to be stuck in a rut at the moment, with all the 2d traditional styles limited by its style and technology, and 3d anime not capturing the aesthetic well enough.

oh man you just killed me with that drop

Sometimes the freedom CG gives the camera can be a bit funny, though. Watching the Japanese series Beastars when that came out, I felt like I could make a drinking game to take a shot whenever there's a dramatic circular pan around the characters. Felt like the cinematographers just got carried away xD

Thank you for this video. As an animation student, I can feel it in my bones that we are on the brink of a renaissance of animation, and this video illustrates beautifully how that is so.

Potsu - gazebo is my favorite Potsu track

machine learning style transfer is gonna be the next game changer mark my words

Fantastic video, really interesting points made! Can't wait to listen through the entire any-mation back catalogue

This is such a good love letter to the craft, thank you for making such a comprehensive video on the subject!

This was another great inside,and the spiderman at the sing...I had not heard it in years,glad to hear it again.

What a wonderful video! I love 2D animation:D Klaus and Spiderman into the spiderverse were my favorites. It really drives me as a illustrator and concept artist:)

I wish I could compile all the clips he used so I knew all the works he referenced because there are so many I haven't even heard of before! Thank you for this video!

5:56 Well let me tell you the good news, We don't need the monitor. Ahhh!!

I’m so glad things like this are happening in animation! I’ve gone through many fazes throughout my life on how I thought about animation. For awhile all I wanted was realism in art. It was what I was being taught at the time an though I didn’t have much interest in art at the time myself, my interest in video games pushed that value forward. But once I moved past that faze I’ve started to realize the beauty in stylization, and since have held value in both ever since. And while keeping up with the realism present in both film and video game animation is both interesting and impressive, I can’t deny how much more the medium of stylized animation means to me. And to see how well studios have managed to integrate CG with 2d gets me extremely exited for the future of animation. I hope that I can be a part of that future too!

I just hope that studios don't sell their narrative aspects for just visual aspects, that would be a devalution

I've had this question since seeing Spider-verse, so thank you so much for making this video! It was also a great crash course on animation from the last 15 years ^_^

wow this is amazing!!! I hope my animation skills get as good a there's seeing that there are infinite possibilities to making an animation thank you so much this video was really helpful to me as person

I hope more movies that involve 2d animation like Spider-Verse and Klaus come to the big screen.

I'm about to binge watch this channel...

Today's special effects are fantastic, but sometimes it seems that the filmmakers think that special effects can compensate for a good story, which it does not.

This is a fantastic video!!!! Thank you for taking the time to create this. Animation is getting a wider audience with every passing day, and it's videos like this that really excite me about what the future could hold for the medium!

your videos never fail to give me the warm fuzzies. awesome video

best video about spider verse out there

Wow I didn't even know you were back ive been waiting you to do more video essays, and of one of my favourite animated films of all time, yes!!

Rad video man. I got nothing profound to say. I just love animation. That’s all.

This is an awesome essay! I feel like there is one subcategory that wasn’t highlighted though that falls sort of between hand drawn and 3-D modeled animation which has also been making leaps and bounds lately and that is Flash animation and other styles of limited animation usually used for TV. I realized this when I watched Disney’s Tangled series. I really did not go into it expecting them to be pushing their medium but the way they use textures, light, and pay homage to classic limited animation like Warner and UPA is truly incredible and blows away previous uses of Flash technique like Johnny Test, you tubers, and the like. I’d love a video reviewing limited animation in TV (why they use it, innovations in it like Warner’s abstract style), how that evolved into the use of Flash and how that industry is innovating today especially on new networks like Netflix which has been so fast and loose on their funding of these projects! I think innovation happens in the presence of difficulty and that Disney closing its animation department has caused (or contributed to) that in cinematic animation lately, but that the limited budgets and content restrictions of TV animation has always forced them to change in really interesting innovative ways and a video highlighting that would be cool.

Perfect use of the outro song!

Excellent video, I really enjoyed how well you managed to collate a lot of different artists takes on the topic. Will definitely be supporting you on patreon when I can afford to! Also finishing the video with the oldschool spidey theme gave me chills, excellent decision.

This essay is utterly brilliant, thank you!

Another phenomenal video essay. I truly believe the success of Spiderverse has started a revolution in animation. Everyone I know of in the art department in my college loves this movie, and will take it as inspiration. Others will as well, and since the audience proved that they loved it, that can mean by the time others like me begin to work in the industry we won't be as restricted in storytelling as studios were before

DBFZ used those exquisitely in converting 2D to 3D.

The algorithm sent me here and I'm so happy it did! Looking forward to digging through your older videos :D

It is so good to see another video from you, thank you

Thank You ! You'r great!.

6:36 Omg that looks amazing! I'm so glad you said what movie in the corner, what's cool is I just saw Saber Spark's post that he has a video about White Snake in the works! I saw that litterally right before coming back to this video and I was paused here, crazy.

What an amazing video... more people need to see it

ⁿᵃʳʳᵃᵗᵒʳ --> music and interviews

I really enjoyed your video so I'm commenting to raise your engagement score and encouraging others to do so as well.

Oh, I saw some Milt Kahl pencils in there. Nice choice!

OMG! Klaus wasn't all 3D? AMAZING!

"Using every trick in the book" the movie

this was wonderful! I love how these videos fill my excitement and dream to become an animator when I become an adult in a few years. something I've been really curious about is how 2D animation usually handles fog. It's one of my favorite ways creators can make a mood for their story, I especially love how Kurosawa uses fog and wind in his stories, though I've never really seen the effect work as well in 2D animation. I wonder if there's a way to make it feel more like actual fog without just using some pre-done realistic fog. I definitely want to figure out how to create that same eerie or calm feeling I get when I walk through it.

Great video man! Always love your work.

I've been looking forward to another video, thanks a lot Cole!

Great video !

Thanks for this!!!!!

Love your work!

Awesome video, keep it up!

Loved this!

Great video man. Keep it up.

This video is so cool !

Love this channel

Amazing work man!

Wonderful video. Thank you

give 👏 Klaus 👏 the recognition 👏 it deserves 👏

Brilliant video!

damn I don't remember when I subscribed to you to you but I am so happy I did

Great point! Excited for the future of animation too now

Lupin the 3rd the first and Spiderman into the spiderverse have each individually made disney sit down.

Beautiful vídeo :)

Been really enjoying your videos, this one in particular put into words the feelings I've been having with animation as a medium in film lately and just how special and provocative they have gotten outside of the confines of Disney. Spiderverse and Klaus have made me very excited for animation in film in the future. Amazing video!

All I want is to see more 2D Frame by Frame animated movies to come out and not just Anime.

wait a minute is that the op for the 90's spiderman !!!!

I think animation is really getting its footing and experimenting thanks to Netflix and Hulu and the such. Sure we'll get more of the basic egg-white films but we're definitely going to get allot of new and original stuff

I used to work at a second DVD/Bluray/Game trade in place (not for long, fuck that place) and they ALL said that they thought they had a scratched or faulty disc when they first watched this movie. They didn't get that the animation was supposed to look like that. I think this may be one of the issues that the movie faces, that the general audiences don't understand it. (I love the movie so much I'd marry it, but stupid people think it's "weird and broken")

5:50 Omg that's so weird but cool

Arcane is the next

10:08 Buñuel en el laberinto de las tortugas. Merece también que le pongas el subtítulo de qué película es!!! ;)

Even tho they are of lower quality, cg anime projects have used these frame modulation techniques , smears and extra limps and 2d lines blend with cg before spiderverse since maybe the early 10s. Yeah spiderverse is extremely polished but it didn't revolutionize these techniques, just did them in very high qualify

Beautiful :'))

Ooh,good title.

great!

How?!? I just start studying shots from spider verse last night xD

You should analyse anime adaptation in mixing 3d and 2d like dorohedoro, grappler baki etc.

This Vid made my day. I'm curious what your thoughts are on video games impact on animation. Now that we have Castlevania and the upcoming Arcane series, video game's influence could change how animation is perceived and bring in more teen and adult audiences. The trailers for League of Legends have really interesting animation styles. KDA has similar vibes to Spider-Verse.

Ok so after watching the bad guys , entergalacaltic , new puss in the boots movie and the latest trailer of TMNT: Mutant mayhem we need your reaction and a new video of this topic ❤️❤️❤️

Is there a list of all featured movies and shorts?