I'd like to see more traditionnal animation like this...

Blond · Jun 2015

https://vimeo.com/126287950

...on the big screen.

That level of shading and coloring is simply mindblowing.

Better than CG.

Lamont · Jun 2015

Blond wrote: »

https://vimeo.com/126287950

...on the big screen.

That level of shading and coloring is simply mindblowing.

Better than CG.

I think there is some CG in there...

No there isn't, it does look CG.

Makkon · Jun 2015

The lines are absolutely hand drawn. It's possible that, per shot, they made a library of shapes that are hand painted (think Rayman Legends), and they morphed these shapes per frame to the match the motion and laid them under the lines. The frames are far too smooth for each frame to be hand painted and rendered.

There's absolutely some aftereffects stuff going on in those shots too. Things like sun beams, and even rim lights, can be masked off.

This has me pretty excited!

MrHobo · Jun 2015

I dont think this is entirely hand drawn. There is defienatly some CG in there. Im even more convinced after reading this:

"Sergio Pablos will talk about SPA Studios’ accomplishments and goals, explaining how a small studio from Spain manages to originate a hugely successful franchise like "Despicable Me" and how it consistently participates in projects for internationally renowned studios like Universal, Blue Sky, Dreamworks or Warner Bros. He will also present a sneak peek of the studio's latest project, "Klaus", where his creative team has experimented with bridging the gap between traditional animation and CGI."

From this link in the description: http://www.annecy.org/programme/index:rdv-200000301730

JordanN · Jun 2015

Cartoons have been using CGI for a while now. Even the Lion King in 1994 used CG for the running sequences. The animators are just very clever to blend it in with traditional animation.

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Mstankow · Jun 2015

Black Cauldron is the earliest Hand Animated film I know of to use CG. Only 3 years after Tron and Star Trek 2.

Lamont · Jun 2015

In the article it says 100% hand drawn.

Makkon · Jun 2015

I'm certain the character lines are. The rendering absolutely is not frame by frame hand painted.

aesir · Jun 2015

There's a cartoon brew article that says:
THERE IS NO GEOMETRY.

So, no 3d guides. All hand drawn. Just nutso good artists.

here: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/interviews/sergio-pablos-talks-about-his-stunning-hand-drawn-project-klaus-exclusive-113621.html

"SERGIO PABLOS: I can’t go into too much detail, but I can tell you that no geometry is involved, that the end result depends greatly on the artistic ability of the creators, and that it mostly takes place during the later stages of production, which means that it does not affect the way in which traditional animators work."

JordanN · Jun 2015

aesir wrote: »

There's a cartoon brew article that says:
THERE IS NO GEOMETRY.

So, no 3d guides. All hand drawn. Just nutso good artists.

here: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/interviews/sergio-pablos-talks-about-his-stunning-hand-drawn-project-klaus-exclusive-113621.html

"SERGIO PABLOS: I cant go into too much detail, but I can tell you that no geometry is involved, that the end result depends greatly on the artistic ability of the creators, and that it mostly takes place during the later stages of production, which means that it does not affect the way in which traditional animators work."

Damn, that's crazy then.

I only know one other movie that did that but the actual animation took several decades to complete. The Thief and the Cobbler.

Props to the artists for having the patience to do that. There's a certain charm to having all your vanishing points drawn by hand.

Muzzoid · Jun 2015

Are you trying to shoot for a 1.00 thread posting per day statistic or something? 1/7 of your posts is a new thread O_O.

MrHobo · Jun 2015

aesir wrote: »

There's a cartoon brew article that says:
THERE IS NO GEOMETRY.

So, no 3d guides. All hand drawn. Just nutso good artists.

here: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/interviews/sergio-pablos-talks-about-his-stunning-hand-drawn-project-klaus-exclusive-113621.html

"SERGIO PABLOS: I cant go into too much detail, but I can tell you that no geometry is involved, that the end result depends greatly on the artistic ability of the creators, and that it mostly takes place during the later stages of production, which means that it does not affect the way in which traditional animators work."

Thanks for the article, Im really excited now.

Chantel-sky · Jun 2015

JordanN wrote: »

Cartoons have been using CGI for a while now. Even the Lion King in 1994 used CG for the running sequences. The animators are just very clever to blend it in with traditional animation.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLmAT6t5kL0

Thanks for sharing that, found it very interesting.

Insane that it's all hand drawn, looking forward to it.

Eric Chadwick · Jun 2015

I bet this was done in ToonBoom or similar. Combine hand-drawn with deformers, etc.
https://www.toonboom.com/products/harmony/features

kaptainkernals · Jun 2015

They say at the bottom of the cartoonbrew article:

"Most of the animation was done digitally on TVPaint."
http://www.tvpaint.com/

Which looks a lot like toonboom

Muzzoid · Jun 2015

Tvpaint is raster.

Joebewon · Jun 2015

I think there's still a good amount of people who love 2D animation, but I think it's just mixing the 2D & 3D well.
I think this music video does a great job of mixing the two together:
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Plus, I'm just a big fan of the art style of the hand drawn stuff!

Gmanx · Jun 2015

Klaus does look pretty amazing.

Even back in the Animo days (running on Steve Jobs's NextStep OS) we had animatable digital gradient fills and such but this is very impressive.

RN · Jun 2015

"Convincing 2d that looks like 3d.... Wow"

The name Sergio Pablos stuck in my mind after seeing his character Dr. Doppler from the film Treasure Planet (Disney, 2003). It's some very fluid animation.
He was the supervisor for that character, that you can see at 2:33 here: http://youtu.be/sTa-8RzsAbg

DanglinBob · Jun 2015

It really looks great... I want to see it

SugarRave · Jun 2015

This is the kind of animation we need more of. It's great to advance technology but I fear what would happen if we became too dependent on 3D.

JordanN · Nov 2015

Bumping this, because I didn't see this posted anywhere.

The studio doing Klaus posted a demo reel and you can see small glimpses of how it's done
https://vimeo.com/125894516
There is 3D involved! But funny enough, it's in the program I least expected to use (Nuke).

I'd like to see more traditionnal animation like this...

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