Where to Draw the Line | Lining in Animation 

This is why I really love when artists have a sketchy style. You can just see every stroke they took to get to the finished piece and I just love it. Clean styles are cool but I just love sketchy styles all the more

Absolutely loving this channel

pencil and computers are both tools, it depends on the artist to make great things with them.

This is why the 60s were my favourite era in Disney. All the lines where so loose and sketchy a the you could see the rough drafts through the colour. It's such a cool style.

Thanks for reminding me how gorgeous the Beauty and the Beast score is ❤

Art is probably the only place where imperfection can be truly charming. No mistakes, just happy little accidents. :)

Made in Abyss does the same type of thing with dangerous creatures being drawn very roughly; and the more human or orderly characters are drawn with static, uniform lines.

I wasn't sure what made me fall in love with princess kaguya so immediately but i think your explanation is what i was looking for. There's something so organic about how everything moves in that film, it really enchants you

My question is how we can make an animation be as expressive as possible while keeping the ‘contemporary‘ style, so it looks attractive to the general audience, not only us artists.

“A pencil is the simplest tool of any you can have, it’s a little stick at the end that makes a mark... but there’s a line that goes straight down your arm that connects to your heart. You take something that’s hidden from others, and you reveal it to them by drawing...” -Glenn Keane

you basically explained why i find the animation in the jungle book so charming, the xerox method both saved money and the personal touch of the artists

Oh my god, I did not expect to see a clip of Chalkzone. It's been over a decade since I've seen it, and yet it's themesong still drifts into my head at times...

When Isao Takahata passed away, a friend of mine sent me your video, and I really liked it. Now this video got recommended to me... and it was just what I needed... A lot is being said and shown in this video; but this is why 2D is one of my most favorite animation technique out there.... not only because it's YOU and the paper (or how it used to be), it gets really personal and you start living through your work, that's also why I ADORE watching pencil tests, full of life and natural imperfections, that makes it perfect. Thank you for putting this video together, great thoughts, great movie recommendations and your soft and calm voice was also something that I needed. I'd love to see more videos like this from you. Subbed!.

I have enjoyed every millisecond of this video!

This is incredible, thanks for making this!

i love samurai jack ...so style ...!

awesome recollection of Line

Loved this video! Very informative and enjoyable, can't believe it doesn't have more views.

I agree with you hand drawn animations seem to have much more soul.

Great video. I always like those little imperfections in drawings that are missing in other types of animation. Particularly with rigging, it just makes it feel too sterile.

that last scene of Dear Basketball hit hard!! And yes A Truly Awesome Video Anymation👌

thank you, this was a pleasure to watch :)

A comment from Spain. Your animation videos are great. Your knowledge of the medium made animation phanatics like me learn something new. Infinitely grateful. Keep helping us understand what we love, you're doing great.

Your voice is so soothing.

what a gift

oh my god where have you been with this channel??

I love this style of essay, collecting the different ways an aesthetic element can be used. Great work!

Just beautiful

i personally love pencil tests,love the vid

Loved this essay! Makes me appreciate animation so much more

I wish you showed Disney's old colored line style. Lauren Faust said her inspiration for MLP's colored lines came from old Disney films like Snow White and Pinnochio which used colored lines instead of black. It was much more difficult back then, with each line requiring a different physical ink blot.

Awesome video. Thanks for putting this essay together so beautifully. Animation is the most fantastic art and there’s many decisions to be made to get the final piece of art. Whether lines or no lines, 2d or 3d it can really move us.

Great job on this channel, Any-Mation.

I so want to use this idea for my next short...this is so inspirational

Loved the video, thanks a lot

Awesome section i can see in between my work shifts XD Awesome resume and content :3 you got a new subscriber

Woooooow this os one of the most amazing and beautiful video of animation I have ever seen

I found my new favorite channel

Your content is absolutely stunning! I hope you'll get the attention you deserve!

This is so beautiful! :D

I am sad it took until today to find this channel

This was a great video, instantly subscribed.

love your stuff keep it up!

BRAVO!

Great video!

lovely

Such an awesome channel, well made videos, I love it

Beautiful 👏🏻

I sometimes animate for fun, and I always have so much trouble with smooth lines. This is great.

Lol analysing Wolfwalker before it even get a release date, that's some fine work!

SO GOODDD!!! Subscribed

Beautiful video! :D edit I watch Mune because of you it was just lovely thank you :D

Cool

this video refresh my mind about animation need to be outline

yes please more!

I'm in love with the new one piece arc' art line. I wish a lot of anime have it as well

I remember that one moment from Mother's Basement analyzing Jojo Part 2 Opening, when the Pillar Men are shown in rough sketches to show their primal power.

Wonderful analysis! I'm a big supporter of medium and style reinforcing character and story and of course love boiling lines and traditional pencil tests. Your examples and explanations for this are spot on! I'm curious... did you study animation at University or is this a side project for you? Your animation knowledge is impressive! Looking forward to more 'key' and 'in-between' video essays! :)

I love your voice, man!

you have to make more videos. i hope you understand how inspiring youre videos are too artist

This is why I'm trying to not do a sketch layer anymore. I try to draw the lines as I see them and then use that, no clean up.

I love all the films mentioned here. Now I have new films to watch and admire( the ones I have seen here are One Punch Man and Mune: The Guardian of the Moon, and for Mune I'm so happy it was mentioned since it doesn't seem to be very well known but it's beautiful)

Watch the first season of a cartoon show called “Chaotic” - it was drawn in a flash animation style

Loving this new section, what about an Inbetwwen about well...Inbetweens? it's tagic to see how this part is almost always taken for granted :T

Nice! Good thing I had the bell thing turned on. Loved it! And how did I not know there was a Danger Mouse reboot???

Have you seen anything by Tom Law? His short 'This Actually Happens A Lot' is worth a watch, its a good attempt at animating an ink/nib style (usually reserved for one panel newspaper toons)

I’m feeling happy lol

thanks for this ! Any research into different animation styles out there ?

i wonder if you can tag this for easier searching; i tried to show it to a class today and, having temporarily lost the link, i tried every way i could think of to search for it and couldn't find it. (i finally found my previously-saved link.)

I absolutely feel the same way about pencil tests.

how was this video only reocmmended to me now, though i have a feeling that many other people are getting the same recommendations at the sametime. (would still add a recommendation to list the movies in the description below)

Damn

I know this is an old video and all but can anyone tell me what was the interview at the beginning ?

Can someone explain how the lines in Attack on Titan are considered thick?? Especially compared to Rick and Morty or literally any kids animated shows

where can I find the full video of the clip of Glen Keane you used in the beginning????

Glen Keane

Soul.

I'm cursed with obsessive animation. I'm taking too many breaks.

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Rick and Morty lines are way thicker than Attack on Titans. Actually, Attack on Titans' are really thin.

Lines flatten. If you want flat you want to see lines. if you don't, you don't.

so thats why whenever i line my drawings, they look lifeless!!!

Is your nose blocked or somethingÞ

No this is where you're wrong drawing is not something anybody can just do you're talking about art here the one thing you really need to get this going it's ambitious. You need to be ambitious enough otherwise it's never going to happen you got to find motivation you got to find something inspires you to do it. Otherwise you would never develop the skills for it therefore you won't be creating art you'll just be doing something else besides what you should be doing. Which is art that is what you should be doing that's what that is what you should be thinking of doing art should be the only motivation and ambitious you would ever need the sole purpose of doing art or drawing something is for the art itself nothing else that's where you're going to get your ambitious from and you're motivation and what would expire you to keep going and doing more and more and you'll see there's never going to end. Be ready to be alone and be happy for it for your imagination has no end and you're never going to run out of ideas. There are so many fields in the art field that you can get into if you get tired of one or you have completed everything you wanted to complete in that one for you and you just want to try something else and get more creative that way. Ambitious and passion for art is what you need it is the key to being an artist.

This is my big qualm with digital animation and why it never inspires me to drawn.

I mean clean animation in The Amazing World of Gumball is incredible, but nothing gets me going more than rough, bold, sketchy,closely line work. It just looks so organic and natural. Organic things aren't as clean. I really dislike the popular thin lines being used now. I get why they are used, but it is so boring.

1:56 ew, no thanks. I think I'll stick with traditional hand drawn animation.

UNACCEPTABLE

It's sad to see how sterile a lot of western animation has become. There is nothing wrong with CGI if the story subject matter fits it, but it is so often applied to projects and subject matter where it is impairing the expressiveness and emotional impact of the final product. Creating for instance a a sterile mechanized dystopian future or animating a mindbogglingly complex but precision assembly line is something 3D modelling would lend itself to wonderfully but trying to create an abstract work where two spring butterflies swirl around each other and morph into a young couple of lovers dancing through a field would be next to impossible to do well with 3D modelling. The death of cinematic classic 2D animation here in the west is a real tragedy that I hope is not repeated elsewhere in the world.