I tried animating on paper.... 

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I was INCREDIBLY excited for this one. I was always like `kay, she did flipaclip, when is she gonna do paper?'

I’ve animated on paper before… It’s.. okay so long as you have a lightboard.

Since I don’t have a drawing tablet or anything digital, I’ve ONLY been able to animate on paper. It’s been very tiring

One of my friends animates on paper! It’s really easy for her because that’s how she animates but for me, (and especially others) it’s very challenging and I don’t recommend it! Thank you so much for all the likes! I really appreciate it! Have a nice day!

This was really good, and I liked your singing of TGWDLM. The storyboard fitted the song well. Yeah, hand drawn animation is difficult when using just a window to make the next frame. I've tried, and gave up because of joint pain. I intended to make my own lightbox to keep my costs down, but that project failed. I found out I am terrible at DIY.

"oh god it's the bugs again"

"coloured pencils, a regular camera, and a window" sounds like me trying to animate in sticky notes when I was small

This brings back so many memories of when I used to animate traditionally by erasing/drawing every single frame on the same piece of paper with no keyframes or window/lightbox, and then editing them together in a gif maker haha! The animation turned out really nicely as well, I can't imagine how long that much have taken to line every single frame.

This suffering is something I’m looking forward to (I havent seen North draw much on paper)

love the tgwdlm cover! it helps me mourn the fact that the Twisted soundtrack has for some reason been removed from spotify :(

I've tried animating on paper before and it was a nightmare, so the closest i've gotten recently was just some stop motion. Cant wait to see how you handle it!

Omg It looks better than the project I've been working on for 3 and a half years :,)

I was expecting the translator voiced cover xd, but many shots turn out pretty good in my opinion! and at this point we can all agree there no limits to on you making yourself suffer attempting to animate in so many ways :D

This turned out amazing!! I've always wanted to try paper animation and this has really given me the spark to do it (with more tools hopefully lol)

are we ignoring the fact it sounds like she sung this? :0 If she sung then it was AMAZING-

OMG you animated hollow knight on paper? I can not wait to see it!

I can’t wait for this- it sounds awesome ;w;

That is amazing! You are so good at animating, I hope someday I’m as good as you!

Omg I love this! I love your improvising lol. I’m trying to get into animating, and I want to try digital and traditional to see where I stand stronger. I’m more used to pencil drawings, but digital art has Back buttons and Erase tools ;-; Thanks for being such an inspiration!

WOW! This animation turned out amazing! :0 I don't have any idea how you made it look so good but great job!

with these working conditions (no scanner, no actual light to see throught) i am amazed on your determination and how it ended up

HOLLOW NIGHT IS LITERALLY MY FAVORITE GANE EVER IM SO HAPPY YOU GOT INTO IT

Aaaah the singing is so good! I didn't even realize that was the original

Woahhhh the final result is so amazing omg.

I mean, it looked preetty hard, and it turned out really nice, it got the aEstHeTIc :)

I saw the animation and had no idea it was a challenge that's how great you are

This came out looking really cool!

Ahhh just like the good old days I love old paper animations But they sure as hell are a long time to make. Is still easy but takes long But there is something special about paper animations and anyone who does it Earns my respect 👍

You should try making flipbooks! It’s fun

the starkid fan inside of me is screaming in happiness at the song choice

I can't animate on anything but paper so lol, this was exciting to see ngl

Wait your singing is so good wha -

You should try making a amv backwards so last frame first first frame last so you will have to draw a character walking Backwards so when the amv is done it will be walking forwards

This turned out super good!!

Beautiful singing voices

This is so cool still honestly! Dont put your self down and learn from mistakes! :D

this is so good!

To be honest it’s better than I animate on my iPad

I think you did amazing with paper!!

Me and my sister were scrolling through youtube on tv and saw this was premiered seventeen minutes ago, so i decided to get on my computer and comment. Not very important but oh well. My sister and I love your art and animations btw :]

the fact that she animates better on paper than how i animate on a device

actually like how it turned out! all of it! :)

Think I wanna do that too just as long as I know what I'm getting into

that mozart requiem at the beginning.. perfection.

North, don't kick yourself for ONE animation shot looking a bit off. You're animating on *paper*. Plus, If this is your first time, it's absolutely amazing!

Traditional animation my beloved 😋

Depending on your budget, the traditional way of making the panning shot is via "multi plane", where each cell or drawing is put onto stacked glass panes, and each pane is moved around to create a sense of depth. You could try get acrylic panes, and legos or stacking cups

It looks good!

"so, after all that work, what did i end up with?" as a person who only does drawing on paper, my guess would be trauma

i will always watch your bug videos

I'm too unfamiliar with digital art to animate, and need so much more practice and general technical knowledge before I try making a full animation and not just one movement or slightly moving drawings, so seeing that animating on paper is a thing and is possible is actually really encouraging! :D I have a lot of ideas for fun animatics, so I'll definitely be trying this. I still really want to learn how to animate digitally, but this seems like a good alternative to just get my ideas out for now :]

this is so cool!!

when you threw that paper thing it looked like one of moons nerons i think thats funny lol

I swear you're gonna make me play hollow knight

This is so cool!!

As someone who just uses IBS paint and the occasional traditional art, I want to try this. Traditional is actually some of the cleanest art I make. Of course it looks trash when colored.

Legends said that in this video,North will scream/cry i pain

It was really good! (The stream)

I clicked on this when I saw hollow knight lol anyways great work

Apologies for the pain you went through, but at least it was worth it right?

For a min I thought it was u singing the song 💀 Anyways…THIS LOOKS AMAZING!

DUDE IM SO GLAD ITS HOLLOW KNIGHT I LOVE HOLLOW KNIGHT (legit JUST got the dream nail)

A cool idea would have been to have yellow paper and put holes in it purposefully so it looks like bugs were eating it or something.

you put your own pain into that cover didn't you?😥👍

This was pretty cool

Animating on paper is apart of traditional animation, it was commonly used on the animation industry before computers were came in scene. The paper wasn't used but rather using cel sheets (paper but transparent) and trace-painting the animation papers by outline first to then color, backgrounds were normal paper in which did well for the old animators before. There are traditonal animation techniques, one common way without onion skinning is by flipping and rolling. Using your 3 fingers, one finger for the current frame, previous and next frame that lets you visualize it. At least you did good along with paper animation, although it was limited for your standards. (Why did I type for this comment :/)

Jokes on you north, this viewer ENJOYS the hollow knight content :)

Personally when I animate on paper, I put the papers in a binder and instead of using a lightbox(or window) to see the other frame. I just flip it like a flip-o-rama.

Actually had to try animating on paper once due to the fact that I don’t have a tablet/stylus and can’t consistently draw/animate digitally, plus I have a lot more experience on traditional art. It was so hard having no access to symbols, a move tool, and of course, ctrl+z. However, the only saving grace for me was drawing really hard on the paper so I could see the imprint from the last frame.

SO GOOD AH

Hey northflowo how ya doin XD greetings from london

Very excited for this! Knew this was going to happen eventually o-o After edit: t h a t l o o k s p a i n f u l honestly wanna do this now lol That looks absolutely amazing though! That looks so hecking epic

I tried animating on paper last week with my only animation experience being with my finger on an iPhone 7. I made key frames then used tracing paper to do them again but erasing parts to draw them differently so that some parts stayed still and some moved. Most of my drawings I actually really liked and they lined up well, but what went totally wrong was that I have no computer so to put the animation together I took pictures of the frames with my phone and put them in FlipaClip... I was not satisfied with the end result but I think if I had had better technology to put my drawings into it would have turned out really nice.

YOU UNDERSTAND MY PAIN

I made a PMV with paper before I got a light table and it was a pain qwq but now I have a light table so paper animating is a lot easier for me now.

Me: I understand Rip the tablet and the glove (we have the same glove!)

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO TRADITIONAL HOLLOW KNIGHT NOT YOUR SEED TGWDLM ANIMATION!!! THIS WORDS ARE WEIRD TOGETHER BUT IS A GOOD WEIRD

I’ve tried it, and trust me: it’s a pain.

Before I got a tablet, I used to try to do animations on paper. But comic style. Yeah I’m so glad I got a tablet lmao

I CANT WAIT!!!

Cool!

YOUR FINNISH

I nearly jumped out of my chair at 0:46 because I have also used the window as a makeshift lightbox! :D In the past I animated my frames on paper and then scanned them so I could trace and color them digitally (at the time I was not confident in my digital sketching skills). Ah, the memories.

I kinda wanna see what tf hollow knight is now

northflowo... how

I know that you'll never do this again, but it helps to put a phone flashlight under a Tupperware/glass container and put the paper on that 😂

The classic way, the tried and true way

This is interesting

One time at school I was bored so I ripped up a notebook paper and animated on the tiny pieces. Guess how the animation turned out? *garbage.*

ee can't wait

❤️❤️❤️

"I wouldn't abandon my fanbase for hollow knight" no but you'd do it for goofy scug game

Great video! I would personally have enjoyed it more of it were around 9 minutes or so, but everyone has a different taste in video lenght. I reread my comment after 9 months, I feel like I should clarify: I didn't mean the animation should be 9 minutes. God no. Never. I just wished you would've talked about the process a bit more

Windows as lightboxes in Finland, oooff.

Rip the trees 😭 lol

“It’s not an animation about hollow knight.” Me who likes warrior cats and hollow knight: *;-;*

Yay! We get bug kisses!

Okay, I have never animated-but I can't draw on computer lol. It's because I don't have the right tools for it-and I don't think I would be good at it anyways. (As long as I don't like-draw on computer [or whatever you draw on] every single day- or just much, idk) So I draw on paper. So I'm pretty excited to see this video. edit: buut I don't use markers lol. I usually just have a pen and a-what's it called in English? Eraser? Well, anyways, I usually only use those, and sometimes I color the pictures.

Me:*Sees the thumbnail and press it* Phone:*loading and lagging* Me:*Throws Phone*