Can I just take a moment to admire the video production? Like seriously the only thing that equals the modern and slick editing is the videos content itself. Like DANG everything looks so clean
I'm reminded of one of the unit spotlight videos for Total War: Warhammer, where they likened dwarfs attacking to "coiled springs". The game has a (relatively) realistic aesthetic and the units are often seen from a great distance, so they needed to do some squashing and stretching to effectively sell, for example, a dwarf smashing an opponent over the head with a great hammer as tall as he is.
@@Jeff_the_Hobo This one, in fact. It's pretty short, but gives a good demonstration of exactly this principle: th-cam.com/video/S69sIifVvlY/w-d-xo.html
It's incredible how you come up with new things to say (and, of course, new examples to focus on) every time you do an video on Squash & Stretch. Given how many times you've done that by now, that's a good thing...
This is excellent, and so well done. I remember the original Squash and Stretch attempt had essentially distilled down into Jak and Daxter: the episode. That was good for a focused dive, but this feels like the whole picture, especially the applications on models with more rigid, realistic proportions. Can't wait for the rest of this series! (But you probably can; take a well earned break.)
I’m replaying Mario 64 at the moment, and I’ve actually noticed that Nintendo was doing some light squash & stretch even in what was one of their earliest attempts at a 3D game. When you punch and kick, Mario’s fist and feet stretches and grows for just a split second during the apex of each animation. It’s barely noticable, but it definitely adds a bit of extra “oomph” to each hit. Of course there’s also the title screen where you can stretch Mario’s face, even if that’s not the type of squash & stretch where talking about here :P
Nathaniel Grizzle It’s not really used for added momentum or sense of force in the animation, though. It’s just there for the player to mess around with (and at the time, for Nintendo to have an impressive tech demo to boast about, as that was its initial purpose). Mario’s punches and kicks on the other hand squashes and stretches for the purpose of an added sense of momentum and force.
Mario's been growing his weird hands and feet in each Smash game as a direct reference to Mario 64 (since of course Smash64's model was practically the same one). Also in the DS remake if you hit a Goomba with the third hit of a character's attack, the Goomba flies into the air and gets super stretchy before it dies.
I was waiting for that McCree shot.. but I didn't realize the reason Widowmaker is blue is because she's literally made of rubber (4:43) Edit: OK Dan, that edit and timing of the credits background was just you showing off.. wasn't it? :D Thanks for listing the music ^^
I don't know if you ever had fun getting stuck on a rounded ceiling with someone else, but there they get stuck in the stretched state, and lucio and widow are uncanny
@@lucianodebenedictis6014 That _does_ sound fun, in a Goat Simulator kind of way. Except it's surprising because it's not in a crappy game built on the principle that bugs are funny, which can be good or bad depending on if the surprise is funny or frightening.
I've had clients push back very hard against both squash and stretch, and smears, very much to the detriment of the final product. Even if these fundamentals are old news for most of us, it's a powerful tool of reference to source to back up your position; being able to have credible veterans of our specific industry showing the value and extensive pedigree of these principals is a handy tool in a demonstrative way. Even if it's not directly informative to practitioners, your series is still useful as a top notch source to reference when trying to avoid wasting time educating team mates and clients as to why they should step back and let the experts do what they were hired to do. I for one have pasted links to your previous entries on more than one occasion, and have you to thank for shaving hours (if not days) of educating others after being asked "why does that limb look broken" or "is this a rendering error on that frame?"
This turned out great! Even when I already know what you're talking about, something about your delivery just makes it new and exciting and I walk away feeling like I've learned a thousand lessons in a single moment. Keep it up, Dan!
One of the reasons I think Jak and Daxter are as animated as they are, is Naughty Dog had experience with Crash Bandicoot. To get around the limitations of 3D animation at the time, instead of using a skeleton and joints, they instead made the character entirely out of vertexes and textures. That way they could exactly control the deformation across the character model
From a physics perspective, you might hear about Poisson's ratio, which is the amount that gets pushed out in the sides (/pulled) when something squashes (/stretches). Rubbery materials have a Poisson's ratio such that their total volume should stay nearly constant. Enjoyed the video!
Held this one out for primetime dinner viewing and holy crap it did not disappoint. I love learning all these lessons from you. You present them clearly and neatly, in a fun and engaging way, and it's always an inspiration to try and find the tools to try and make basic animation of my own.
I was just rereading Richard Williams "the animatiors survival kit" when i got the message that you uploaded a video about the 12 principles of animation. Nice. Also if you wanna get into animation and don't know where to start I highly recommend the animatiors survival kit. It is seen by many as the best book about animation.
This just reminds me of how big Wario's head and fists get when he does his smash attacks in Smash Bros, it has to be one of the most exaggerated cases of this in the entire game!
Love seeing these techniques pointed out. A lot of the time they're done in such a way that it's an "invisible" technique where the viewer isn't really sure why it looks so good.
Excellent overhaul of the squash and stretch video. I love the 2D example footage selection. Manipulating the ball example on screen makes animation feel approachable and gives a feeling over really applying the principle on the spot rather than just being shown the result.
I remember seeing I think a special feature on Jak and Daxter, one thing that was special about the character animation in that game is it the characters didn't have skeletons, they were literally vertex clouds that morphed from pose to pose. Apparently animating that way was really flexible but it was such a pain in the butt that they had to change to a more conventional skeletal model for the later games, that gave them much better facial expressions and subtlety but they lost a bit on the squash and stretch.
Another good example of the less cartoony approach to this is Warframe's Bullet Jump. The input actually lends itself really well to the concept: you simply press the jump button while crouching (squashed) and your Tenno will launch themselves headfirst (stretched) in whatever direction your camera is pointing with a nice flourishy spin.
Here you go! www.infinitelooper.com/?v=1kFRU_xBZnE&p=n#/367;369 Works better when the window is minimized so it's not having to load the video. Give it a few cycles and it blends into a continuous loop.
It's a tall ask but I'd really like to see you go over the attack animations from Kingdom Hearts 2.I'd ask for both 1 AND two but that video could take MONTHS of your time while 2 already has various combos, forms, abilities and Roxas in them. Whatever you end up making, I'm so happy to see such a nice, well presented and constructive look at animation!
Smash 64 and Mario 64 also have great uses of squash and stretch, each of Mario's attacks in both games being heavily emphasized by them. Nintendo somehow made it look excellent even at the early stages of console 3D.
Despite this being a very short video in comparison to most others on TH-cam, I found it engaging throughout. I really enjoyed all the examples and it made me realize why I prefer pixel art styled games and such. Good work, it's nice to be able to learn something while applying it to something you love like video games. You're the man, Dan
It's utterly crazy how appealing squishiness is in animation. Those two scenes from Steven Universe really stood out to me. Pink Heart Girl (Spinel?) looks incredible in how she moves, she's so fluid and vibrant its a bit unnerving, but the earlier animation of the main three characters looks almost wooden in how little they get to exaggerate, especially for such a silly movement as planting someone full-body into the ground. With how little Pearl squashed after getting thrown into the ground, it looks like she should have shook like a gong or something from how exaggerated Amethyst's throw was. It's a nitpick, but something a little extra could have really sold her rigidity or the throw's strength instead of just rotating her character 90 degrees with a smear as the inbetween.
This video must have been fun to get footage for. Seeing the full animation of Abu turning into a camel in slow•mo refreshed me as someone into goofy animation.
I'm going to watch that new Steven Universe movie right now!!! I haven't seen it yet so I'm super excited!!! I hope it's good!! I LOOOOOVE Steven Universe!!
Loving these lessons. I'm learning animation (3D specifically) and I want to understand more with the 12 principles. Thanks so much for explaining and I can't wait for 10 more!
I've been going through and watching pretty much all your videos including the ones from extra credits and they have been a lot of help with the game I've been working on by myself it's my first project and I couldn't have gotten this far without you it's gonna be a 16bit ,top down, turn based RPG it seems like an extreme first project but I've also been using tutorials to help me get to grips with the app I'm using again thanks a lot
World of Goo did amazing things with squash and stretch in the goo balls you manipulate - including emphasizing the variety in different kinds of goo and their different properties.
My favorite example of squash and stretch in a game is Amaterasu's jump animations in Okami. A little went a long way to help along the ink brush style.
Doom 2016 had a lot of squashy stretchy-ness. Mostly to show how weird the gross, flabby demons where but some glory kills had some good strechy-ness to ‘em to show how strong Doom guy was able to hit them I also played it for the first time recently so its on my mind lol
Small nitpick, but in the future could you try to notate the game on screen with a little text in the corner or something. Some of the games look neat, but I can't figure out what they are. That is literally the absolute worst thing I could say about these videos and their quality! You're doing amazing work and I couldn't complain if I tried. You're a great teacher and very skilled at delivering information in a digestible way that my young nephew interested in game design can easily understand! I'm looking forward to the rest of this series! Keep up the amazing work! P.S. My pup is currently sick, and requires all of my disposable income at the moment. But I just want you to know you would be, and most likely will be soon, the first and only channel or content creator I support on Patreon or YT membership. Sharing knowledge is an honorable path to take and you have my respect, and hopefully soon... some of my money! I hope to see your channel grow and see you get the recognition and respect you deserve for the amazing videos! (Enough ass kissing.. back to the video.. again... ;D lol)
I can't help but think of Dragonball FighterZ. They animated 3D models with like 2D characters, with inconsistencies and squashing & stretching, to maintain that anime feeling in a fighting game, and it looks amazing for it.
Me: Is interested in animation and clicks on this video Also me: Was watching Playframe playing Hollow Knight a couple days ago Oh that's neat Dan's an animator Idea: you should talk about the animation of Hollow Knight I've heard there are tons of meticulous and beautiful details.
Love your videos man! I think I might know why squash and stretch isn't used much in games. I've been working a lot in some game engines like Unreal, Unity, and Godot, and it seems some game engines don't play nice with the scale value that you've applied in a 3D software. It's a problem of what you see in the 3D software isn't what you get in the game engine. I don't know if other game engine have this same issue, but I imagine things are similar. Obvs there are still solutions to getting scaling to work in games but I'm thinking scaling might be best to be animated in the game engine itself. That's my hypothesis at least.
You should do a video on the metro games. All of artyom's first person animations are fantastic, expressive, and full of physicality. Most FPS animations sorta just focus on the arms. But metro last light and metro exodus have the best first person animations I've ever seen.
You can cheat deformation in 3D with types of motion blurs such as after images, smudging, lines, you can try deforming textures which have the benefit of being 2D, interaction with environment (dust trails and such), use a few frames of motion blur that isolate the subject and contort that only perhaps.
Yeah, I knew Jak and Daxter were gonna be in here somewhere. I'm sure some insane indie dev take notes from this video and make a game that looks and moves just like cartoons. You know, other than Cuphead's developers.
I'd like to ask for a general breakdown of why the free running animation in the various Assassin's Creed games feels so different between titles. Not necessarily a full look at each individual entry, but probably a focus on why Black Flag felt more "cartoony" than Unity did. It was a criticism I saw from someone who didn't enjoy a free game (even though they completed it, which boggles my mind). I'm personally a fan of all of them and I felt that Unity was off compared to the others in that they felt slower, somehow? But their comment on the game made me take a step back and kinda look at the differences between titles and for quite a few of them they felt exaggerated, except for Unity which was far more "realistic" in a way. I do know they did motion capture for that one so perhaps real world movements are inherently slow when it comes to video games? I'm curious to hear your thoughts and input on the subject.
Love this series, keep it up! One tiny criticism I have is that you list some of the advantages of the technique right in the beginning (0:16-0:32) before even showing any demonstration of the technique in use. I personally would have prefered it to see the examples first and then hear about the advantages. Otherwise fantastic video!
It's funny to compare Spinel, who in-universe has the actual superpower to squash and stretch, to all of the other examples from animation of characters who are just normal but have been given exaggerated squash and stretch animations to sell their movement!
Squash and stretch is what I think most people mean when they say the animation looks good, fun or stylish. 2D media gets a lot of praise for its animation and often that is because they handle this part well.
Nice video, I think even better than the old extra play one. I forget. Did you do a video for this new version, explaining what the 12 principals are? How they were established by The Nine Old Men, are basically the foundation of animation. I think you did it in the 1st series on extra play I'm a teacher and I love sharing these with my students. So I'm glad you are making them into short digestible, videos. It gets the information across without seeming so Academic. You do a good job on these videos. I can't wait to see the next principle.
0:50 Nevermind the squashing, the ball isn't even contacting the floor. 1:28 I get the squashing on impact, and stretching on rebound, but doesn't stretching before impact make it look like the ball was anticipating the impact, like a living creature?
Great video as always. Would've made sense to talk about Cuphead though. Even though it's kinda cheating because of its art style, it's a treasure trove of 2D animation principles.
I definitely need all 12 principles of animation as a seperate playlist to help teach my students using gaming examples I love having the unique perpesctive of a game animator to explain these.
Can I just take a moment to admire the video production? Like seriously the only thing that equals the modern and slick editing is the videos content itself. Like DANG everything looks so clean
Well you cannot have a video about animation with ugly editing.
@@jeromealday614 is that a challenge? Seeing as how I've no relevant skills, knowledge, or equipment whatsoever, I think I could.
Can I request that, in future episodes, we have a thing in the corner saying what game/tv show/etc. you're getting footage from?
This is also the technique most misunderstood by casual consumers, usually because someone took a screencap and shared it.
this and smearframes
yes, but it's still funny to look at
@@Kokurorokuko I agree, I think posting screenshots of smearframes is funny, but what I personally hate is when people treat it like a mistake.
when someone posts a smear frame to prove that animation in "insert title" is bad, i lose braincells
I'm reminded of one of the unit spotlight videos for Total War: Warhammer, where they likened dwarfs attacking to "coiled springs". The game has a (relatively) realistic aesthetic and the units are often seen from a great distance, so they needed to do some squashing and stretching to effectively sell, for example, a dwarf smashing an opponent over the head with a great hammer as tall as he is.
@@Jeff_the_Hobo
This one, in fact. It's pretty short, but gives a good demonstration of exactly this principle:
th-cam.com/video/S69sIifVvlY/w-d-xo.html
"Hi, I'm Dan Floyd; and this.. is Animator's Tool Kit."
Still pretty much Game Maker's Toolkit since it's talking about the applications of this in video games specifically.
humouroushawk I approve
Game Maker's Toolkit Ha
That's EXACTLY what I thought!
3:09
"stretching parts of the character out to create a smeared imitation of motion blur..."
(Looks at McCree)
*wheeeeeezze*
McWheeeze
It's incredible how you come up with new things to say (and, of course, new examples to focus on) every time you do an video on Squash & Stretch. Given how many times you've done that by now, that's a good thing...
yep
Okay, so I’m not going insane by thinking I’ve seen this (basic premise) of video like three times. I guess he’s just trying to get it right?
This is excellent, and so well done. I remember the original Squash and Stretch attempt had essentially distilled down into Jak and Daxter: the episode. That was good for a focused dive, but this feels like the whole picture, especially the applications on models with more rigid, realistic proportions. Can't wait for the rest of this series! (But you probably can; take a well earned break.)
I’m replaying Mario 64 at the moment, and I’ve actually noticed that Nintendo was doing some light squash & stretch even in what was one of their earliest attempts at a 3D game.
When you punch and kick, Mario’s fist and feet stretches and grows for just a split second during the apex of each animation. It’s barely noticable, but it definitely adds a bit of extra “oomph” to each hit.
Of course there’s also the title screen where you can stretch Mario’s face, even if that’s not the type of squash & stretch where talking about here :P
No that big head is probably the only place in the game with squash and stretch as we know it.
Nathaniel Grizzle It’s not really used for added momentum or sense of force in the animation, though. It’s just there for the player to mess around with (and at the time, for Nintendo to have an impressive tech demo to boast about, as that was its initial purpose).
Mario’s punches and kicks on the other hand squashes and stretches for the purpose of an added sense of momentum and force.
@@CrossfacePanda I know that, I'm saying the animations on it have squash and stretch
Mario's been growing his weird hands and feet in each Smash game as a direct reference to Mario 64 (since of course Smash64's model was practically the same one).
Also in the DS remake if you hit a Goomba with the third hit of a character's attack, the Goomba flies into the air and gets super stretchy before it dies.
I was waiting for that McCree shot.. but I didn't realize the reason Widowmaker is blue is because she's literally made of rubber (4:43)
Edit: OK Dan, that edit and timing of the credits background was just you showing off.. wasn't it? :D
Thanks for listing the music ^^
I don't know if you ever had fun getting stuck on a rounded ceiling with someone else, but there they get stuck in the stretched state, and lucio and widow are uncanny
@@lucianodebenedictis6014 That _does_ sound fun, in a Goat Simulator kind of way. Except it's surprising because it's not in a crappy game built on the principle that bugs are funny, which can be good or bad depending on if the surprise is funny or frightening.
@@timothymclean me and my friend can break ANY game hehe
Streched lucio is really visible even in normal gameplay. When he's about to land he looks like a weird line
I've had clients push back very hard against both squash and stretch, and smears, very much to the detriment of the final product. Even if these fundamentals are old news for most of us, it's a powerful tool of reference to source to back up your position; being able to have credible veterans of our specific industry showing the value and extensive pedigree of these principals is a handy tool in a demonstrative way. Even if it's not directly informative to practitioners, your series is still useful as a top notch source to reference when trying to avoid wasting time educating team mates and clients as to why they should step back and let the experts do what they were hired to do. I for one have pasted links to your previous entries on more than one occasion, and have you to thank for shaving hours (if not days) of educating others after being asked "why does that limb look broken" or "is this a rendering error on that frame?"
This turned out great! Even when I already know what you're talking about, something about your delivery just makes it new and exciting and I walk away feeling like I've learned a thousand lessons in a single moment.
Keep it up, Dan!
One of the reasons I think Jak and Daxter are as animated as they are, is Naughty Dog had experience with Crash Bandicoot. To get around the limitations of 3D animation at the time, instead of using a skeleton and joints, they instead made the character entirely out of vertexes and textures. That way they could exactly control the deformation across the character model
From a physics perspective, you might hear about Poisson's ratio, which is the amount that gets pushed out in the sides (/pulled) when something squashes (/stretches). Rubbery materials have a Poisson's ratio such that their total volume should stay nearly constant.
Enjoyed the video!
Held this one out for primetime dinner viewing and holy crap it did not disappoint. I love learning all these lessons from you. You present them clearly and neatly, in a fun and engaging way, and it's always an inspiration to try and find the tools to try and make basic animation of my own.
I was just rereading Richard Williams "the animatiors survival kit" when i got the message that you uploaded a video about the 12 principles of animation. Nice.
Also if you wanna get into animation and don't know where to start I highly recommend the animatiors survival kit. It is seen by many as the best book about animation.
Thanks for the recommendation!!
Chrishy may he rest in peace
Speaking of squash and stretch, take a look at Sonic the Fighters! It's literally Squash n' Stretch heaven!
It consumed the rubber
This just reminds me of how big Wario's head and fists get when he does his smash attacks in Smash Bros, it has to be one of the most exaggerated cases of this in the entire game!
Kazooie's Neck:
Love seeing these techniques pointed out. A lot of the time they're done in such a way that it's an "invisible" technique where the viewer isn't really sure why it looks so good.
Heck yeah!
Excellent overhaul of the squash and stretch video. I love the 2D example footage selection. Manipulating the ball example on screen makes animation feel approachable and gives a feeling over really applying the principle on the spot rather than just being shown the result.
I remember seeing I think a special feature on Jak and Daxter, one thing that was special about the character animation in that game is it the characters didn't have skeletons, they were literally vertex clouds that morphed from pose to pose. Apparently animating that way was really flexible but it was such a pain in the butt that they had to change to a more conventional skeletal model for the later games, that gave them much better facial expressions and subtlety but they lost a bit on the squash and stretch.
7:08 Hey, I recognize that one! :)
Wonderful video!
Another good example of the less cartoony approach to this is Warframe's Bullet Jump. The input actually lends itself really well to the concept: you simply press the jump button while crouching (squashed) and your Tenno will launch themselves headfirst (stretched) in whatever direction your camera is pointing with a nice flourishy spin.
I immediately thought of the Jak and Daxter fist attack while reading the title of the video, it's such a good example of stretch-y animations!
6:08 not gonna lie, now I just want an hour loop of Dan going "Squash, stretch"
also, I feel dumb for forgetting Dan is actually a 3D animator
Here you go! www.infinitelooper.com/?v=1kFRU_xBZnE&p=n#/367;369 Works better when the window is minimized so it's not having to load the video. Give it a few cycles and it blends into a continuous loop.
It's a tall ask but I'd really like to see you go over the attack animations from Kingdom Hearts 2.I'd ask for both 1 AND two but that video could take MONTHS of your time while 2 already has various combos, forms, abilities and Roxas in them.
Whatever you end up making, I'm so happy to see such a nice, well presented and constructive look at animation!
Smash 64 and Mario 64 also have great uses of squash and stretch, each of Mario's attacks in both games being heavily emphasized by them. Nintendo somehow made it look excellent even at the early stages of console 3D.
Despite this being a very short video in comparison to most others on TH-cam, I found it engaging throughout. I really enjoyed all the examples and it made me realize why I prefer pixel art styled games and such. Good work, it's nice to be able to learn something while applying it to something you love like video games. You're the man, Dan
I just realized that squash and stretch reflect timing/ spacing with your key frames on the time line.
I feel I should have realized this sooner.
I feel like you are one of the very few that do animation videos correctly so thanks for this.
It's utterly crazy how appealing squishiness is in animation. Those two scenes from Steven Universe really stood out to me. Pink Heart Girl (Spinel?) looks incredible in how she moves, she's so fluid and vibrant its a bit unnerving, but the earlier animation of the main three characters looks almost wooden in how little they get to exaggerate, especially for such a silly movement as planting someone full-body into the ground. With how little Pearl squashed after getting thrown into the ground, it looks like she should have shook like a gong or something from how exaggerated Amethyst's throw was. It's a nitpick, but something a little extra could have really sold her rigidity or the throw's strength instead of just rotating her character 90 degrees with a smear as the inbetween.
Animator: So how much squash and stretch do you want for Spinel's animation?
Rebecca Sugar: Yes.
Spinel is based off old 30's style rubber hose animation because she is literally of a bygone era, that's why her animation is so exaggerated.
thanks this is pure gold, cant wait for the rest 10 episodes
The Hotel Transylvania movies are a great example of squash and stretch
I live for these uploads.
That poppy stretch is incredible
I'd absolutely love to see an episode about creature animation using horizon zero dawn as an example
This video made me realize just how amazing and expressive Kingdom Battle's animations really are.
This video must have been fun to get footage for. Seeing the full animation of Abu turning into a camel in slow•mo refreshed me as someone into goofy animation.
Now I want to watch Who Framed Roger Rabbit for some reason...
Because it's really good probably
YESSSS YOU SHOWED SPINEL AND OVERWATCH
I'm going to watch that new Steven Universe movie right now!!! I haven't seen it yet so I'm super excited!!! I hope it's good!! I LOOOOOVE Steven Universe!!
Loving these lessons. I'm learning animation (3D specifically) and I want to understand more with the 12 principles. Thanks so much for explaining and I can't wait for 10 more!
I've been going through and watching pretty much all your videos including the ones from extra credits and they have been a lot of help with the game I've been working on by myself it's my first project and I couldn't have gotten this far without you it's gonna be a 16bit ,top down, turn based RPG it seems like an extreme first project but I've also been using tutorials to help me get to grips with the app I'm using again thanks a lot
3:16 Good ol' Poppy. Was hoping you'd use her attack as an example in this episode!
I remember your jak and daxter video about this!
World of Goo did amazing things with squash and stretch in the goo balls you manipulate - including emphasizing the variety in different kinds of goo and their different properties.
Thank you for creating these episodes! :)
cool thing i noticed: in splatoon, the inklings and octolings actually have squash n stretch in their heads for their walk cycles!
My favorite example of squash and stretch in a game is Amaterasu's jump animations in Okami. A little went a long way to help along the ink brush style.
Doom 2016 had a lot of squashy stretchy-ness. Mostly to show how weird the gross, flabby demons where but some glory kills had some good strechy-ness to ‘em to show how strong Doom guy was able to hit them
I also played it for the first time recently so its on my mind lol
Great video, great channel, and my favorite principle!
Bless the youtube algorithm. Awesome video, editing, and relevance to today's trends!
Arc Systems is a good reference for animation. the new Guilty Gear's and Dragon Ball Fighterz animations pull off some crazy stuff.
Great work as always
This was fantastic!!!! Can't wait to see more!!!
You have awesome videos dude. Keep doing that! I really enjoyed watching them and helped a lot.
The background/editing on the end card is so extra and I love it
Small nitpick, but in the future could you try to notate the game on screen with a little text in the corner or something. Some of the games look neat, but I can't figure out what they are.
That is literally the absolute worst thing I could say about these videos and their quality! You're doing amazing work and I couldn't complain if I tried.
You're a great teacher and very skilled at delivering information in a digestible way that my young nephew interested in game design can easily understand! I'm looking forward to the rest of this series!
Keep up the amazing work!
P.S. My pup is currently sick, and requires all of my disposable income at the moment. But I just want you to know you would be, and most likely will be soon, the first and only channel or content creator I support on Patreon or YT membership.
Sharing knowledge is an honorable path to take and you have my respect, and hopefully soon... some of my money!
I hope to see your channel grow and see you get the recognition and respect you deserve for the amazing videos!
(Enough ass kissing.. back to the video.. again... ;D lol)
Felt great to see TAWoG at 3:30 =D
great video as always
Easily one of your most insightful videos!
so fun to watch
I can't help but think of Dragonball FighterZ. They animated 3D models with like 2D characters, with inconsistencies and squashing & stretching, to maintain that anime feeling in a fighting game, and it looks amazing for it.
Me: Is interested in animation and clicks on this video
Also me: Was watching Playframe playing Hollow Knight a couple days ago
Oh that's neat Dan's an animator
Idea: you should talk about the animation of Hollow Knight I've heard there are tons of meticulous and beautiful details.
Nice video! I look forward to next year when you teach us about timing and squash and stretch again ;)
Love your videos man!
I think I might know why squash and stretch isn't used much in games. I've been working a lot in some game engines like Unreal, Unity, and Godot, and it seems some game engines don't play nice with the scale value that you've applied in a 3D software. It's a problem of what you see in the 3D software isn't what you get in the game engine. I don't know if other game engine have this same issue, but I imagine things are similar. Obvs there are still solutions to getting scaling to work in games but I'm thinking scaling might be best to be animated in the game engine itself. That's my hypothesis at least.
Hot dang! That's a good intro!
I love your edition style, it's simple but awesome, how did you edit like that?🤔
PD: Good video 😁
This Video is actually amazing, great content!.
Awesome insight
that thumbnail brings back flashbacks
A whole video on Spinel would be really cool!
Well this is a game channel
You should do a video on the metro games. All of artyom's first person animations are fantastic, expressive, and full of physicality. Most FPS animations sorta just focus on the arms. But metro last light and metro exodus have the best first person animations I've ever seen.
You can cheat deformation in 3D with types of motion blurs such as after images, smudging, lines, you can try deforming textures which have the benefit of being 2D, interaction with environment (dust trails and such), use a few frames of motion blur that isolate the subject and contort that only perhaps.
I'd love to see a video about the animation in Rain World
Yeah, I knew Jak and Daxter were gonna be in here somewhere. I'm sure some insane indie dev take notes from this video and make a game that looks and moves just like cartoons. You know, other than Cuphead's developers.
I'd like to ask for a general breakdown of why the free running animation in the various Assassin's Creed games feels so different between titles. Not necessarily a full look at each individual entry, but probably a focus on why Black Flag felt more "cartoony" than Unity did. It was a criticism I saw from someone who didn't enjoy a free game (even though they completed it, which boggles my mind). I'm personally a fan of all of them and I felt that Unity was off compared to the others in that they felt slower, somehow? But their comment on the game made me take a step back and kinda look at the differences between titles and for quite a few of them they felt exaggerated, except for Unity which was far more "realistic" in a way. I do know they did motion capture for that one so perhaps real world movements are inherently slow when it comes to video games? I'm curious to hear your thoughts and input on the subject.
this is not an interesting topic, some of ubisoft's inner studios got the movement right and some didn't. that's it
i love your videos
thank you
If you ever talk about smear frames a good example of 3D animation would be Lethal League Blaze.
This topic reminds me of the new guilty gear trailer featuring May. Her dolphin was effectively squashed and stretched.
I remember doing the rubber ball thing in a college game design class, while at the same time learning to use Adobe Animate
Love this series, keep it up! One tiny criticism I have is that you list some of the advantages of the technique right in the beginning (0:16-0:32) before even showing any demonstration of the technique in use. I personally would have prefered it to see the examples first and then hear about the advantages. Otherwise fantastic video!
It's funny to compare Spinel, who in-universe has the actual superpower to squash and stretch, to all of the other examples from animation of characters who are just normal but have been given exaggerated squash and stretch animations to sell their movement!
Squash and stretch is what I think most people mean when they say the animation looks good, fun or stylish. 2D media gets a lot of praise for its animation and often that is because they handle this part well.
I'm amazed you weren't looking more at the 2D side of it. Bigger digressions on Bomb Chicken, Celeste or Shantae.
Its like the disney magic art studio chalk board
Nice video, I think even better than the old extra play one.
I forget. Did you do a video for this new version, explaining what the 12 principals are? How they were established by The Nine Old Men, are basically the foundation of animation. I think you did it in the 1st series on extra play
I'm a teacher and I love sharing these with my students. So I'm glad you are making them into short digestible, videos. It gets the information across without seeming so Academic. You do a good job on these videos. I can't wait to see the next principle.
Good to know balls also stretch after a rebound
They use a lot of squash and stretch in Dragonball FighterZ on their 3d animations on some of the close up moves!
Back when I played Jack and Daxter I remember noticing that Jack's shadow would pull in half sometimes when he jumped.
I'm surprised this channel doesn't talk about Cuphead more...
0:50 Nevermind the squashing, the ball isn't even contacting the floor.
1:28 I get the squashing on impact, and stretching on rebound, but doesn't stretching before impact make it look like the ball was anticipating the impact, like a living creature?
Not necessarily. It establishes the ball Is accelerating
Can you a video about final fantasy? Your videos are amazing!
I just wanna say how much I admire your choice of using Spinel/SU The Movie as a prime example of squash and stretch. Such great character animation.
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Great video as always. Would've made sense to talk about Cuphead though. Even though it's kinda cheating because of its art style, it's a treasure trove of 2D animation principles.
I definitely need all 12 principles of animation as a seperate playlist to help teach my students using gaming examples I love having the unique perpesctive of a game animator to explain these.
They will be! Technically they already ARE, it's just two videos long. :P
i was just recently think that just in the past few years squash and stretch has become common in 3d games and was barely used before
I'm split on the squash and stretch in Mario Odyssey. In my mind Mario has always been a very stocky and robust character.
It's 1 am and I should be sleep but this appeared in my subscriptions.
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