As someone who is getting into animation, thi was really helpful!!!! I never knew all this about these colour indecation lines, I thought those get removed even before shadow is added!?
I’ve made follow-up videos to this in the past, but the basic process is when digitizing the drawing, the colored lines are separated onto its own layer and then you just paint over it. Check out the channel NICCA Ch., they have a playlist on their channel of how to do this in Clip Studio Paint, so you should be able to translate that to any program.
You can also use diffrent colors to shade in animation aswell! I usually draw the shadow with the shading color and then just fill that color in. It's very convinient for me but i have to plan my pallets XD
My animation instructor claimed these are a waste of time, and he is SOOOO WRONG! These are actually very helpful for coloring animations. Thanks for this awesome, informative video.
As an anime animator, I spend my time negotiating peace treaties between my over-caffeinated characters and my rebellious pencils, all while secretly planning the next grand plot twist involving sentient sushi rolls and intergalactic dance-offs!
Summary: BASIC - Red Lines (Highlights): Shows where light is hitting a subject - Blue Lines (Shadows): Indicates where the shadow is supposed to be ADVANCED - Green Lines (Gradient Markers): Shows the transition of gradients - Green Lines (Blushes): Indicates different types of blushes - Red/Magenta Lines (Patterns): Separates patterns to make them easier to see without the line art making things confusing
i actualy use these colors and line not just for animation, but i also use for just doing art in general, and it sort of gives the art a realy interesting look to it
i finally understand everything. THanks you so much!! i thought most of the colour should be using in every special spot while drawing Anime. now i clear my mind set. ONce again, *Thanks you so much!*
4:20 - The fill (uranuri) is required in every part of the process (LO -> Genga -> Douga), the reason why you typically only see it in Lo and genga is because douga is extremely rare to find, and the most common examples of them are paper douga, where the fill is actually made on the opposite side of the paper. In digital douga exports they simply export a "line" version (no fill) and "uranuri" version (with fill) for every cel. Without uranuri its impossible to keep track of the fill and shiage mistakes would be made. 6:00 - The gradient colours are always to be filled in during shiage as a solid block the same way that shadows or highlights are filled (and if it intersect with another shadow or hi-light color that would get filled with its own unique colours too), blushes are also done like this where the gradient is filled in as a solid block of pink. The plugin interpolate between the gradient color and the normal color dynamically based on their surface area and color keying, creating the gradient effect, this means the gradient is tied to the animation and remains consistent, and the gradient colors are tied to the color model palette used during shiage instead of "in comp", allowing you to define the gradient colors for different palettes (such as a night pallete or high contrast pallete) 6:45 - This is called irotore (color trace) 11:15 - In the context of anime production, it's important to make a distinction between when the "rules" are relaxed due to priorities, and when its highly regimented, what you see online is typically the "front end" of anime production (layout - genga), and not really the "back end" (douga - shiage). Yes, the people who do the front end are for the most part have freedom to shade in whatever ways they want as long as they stick to a broad stroke convention, but the "back end" is HIGHLY regimented to the point where its simpler to think of it in terms of how a computer handle input/output, and even with different companies there are expectations that everyone do things in a certain way (it also depends on how old that company is but thats another can of worms). The reason why western productions have more unique pipelines than anime is due to the fact that the western animation (or at least, the part of it that is exposed to the internet, because we wont talk about the french) industry effectively collapsed a couple of decades ago and was resuscitated from the ground up, so much of it is very much in its infancy and had to basically reinvent the wheel.
Wow this is so helpful!! Thamk you for making this video!! and if you know about the anime compositing can you make another video about the compositing process?
In my first animation (just finished), I didn't use any shadow or highlight colors, but I believe it would make the process easier. I'll try incorporating them next time.
As an aspiring animator who is somewhat intimidated by all this symbols for animation, this is really helpful! Could you do another video too about the box for camera panning, like the one at 10:13?
I’ve become interested in animation after I watch ouran host club and I loved their animation and the fluid motion has inspired me into making a cute little rom com one day
“As a” person who got logged out of his friends crunchyroll account and had been binge watching all AOT seasons…that’s about it. Keep up the good work🤙
As a person who wants to do more animation projects, this is pretty cool. I sometimes used colored lines for shadows/lighting, but never really knew the specifics about it. I’m experimenting with new animation apps and haven’t really seen the one at 8:41 (that could just be me). What app is it so I can check it out?
As someone who has dabbled in animation as a casual hobby in Clip Studio Paint this was fascinating. I don't think I could ever be a full-fledged animator, partly because my brain gives a 404 error whenever I try to figure out After Effects. Lol
Some are inspired by real life clothes, others are mashed together from various design choices, and still others are based on the time period and culture (ex, different school uniform designs in one world versus complicated magical armor in another world). This is not my area of expertise, so it would be best to look up videos on character design. There are plenty of great courses, I’m currently taking one on Coloso.
Helluvaboss/Hazbin Hotel animator videos about compositing and animation are incidentally some of the best vids for finding little tidbits of wisdom. Like how you learn that they animate the glow of the eyes separately, or that Stolas’s cape is a green screen during production.
A is the furthest layer back from the camera. B, C, etc is each layer above A, that is closer to the camera. Think of it like looking top-down at a stack of papers. A is the cel at the bottom of the stack.
Just found your channel, will you or did you cover the topic of how does linework in animation work and how it can be replicated in various programms such as CSP, Photoshop and etc.?
I use a color selection method in HitFilm to get around this, or I go the extreme route and just use transparent PNG’s instead, since I can’t really afford After Effects or Photoshop
I enjoyed this. I lol at the part where you say purple as a shadow choice is somehow bad. All of the best painters and artists use purple/blue like hues to paint shadows instead of black. Great artsy intuition if you chose it on your own!
lol the amount of beginner artists that get bullied for only using purple on a multiply layer 😅 we gotta break the mold, cuz I also really love the color purple.
I primarily draw on an iPad and I heard you mention that you primarily animate with an iPad. I really want to become an animator, so I was wondering what programs you recommend. I primarily draw with Procreate and I've been dabbling in Procreate dreams, however Procreate Dreams is very new and is missing many features. I'm just hoping that you can give me some recommendations. Thank you!
Procreate is not a professional software, nor is it industry standard. Studios will typically recommend ToonBoom Harmony, TVPaint, OpenToonz, or Clip Studio or Photoshop.
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As someone who is getting into animation, thi was really helpful!!!! I never knew all this about these colour indecation lines, I thought those get removed even before shadow is added!?
I’ve made follow-up videos to this in the past, but the basic process is when digitizing the drawing, the colored lines are separated onto its own layer and then you just paint over it.
Check out the channel NICCA Ch., they have a playlist on their channel of how to do this in Clip Studio Paint, so you should be able to translate that to any program.
Same!!!!
I've been searching for an explanation of those lines for MONTHS !! To how to use it, the right colors, everything . THANK YOU !!
You can also use diffrent colors to shade in animation aswell! I usually draw the shadow with the shading color and then just fill that color in. It's very convinient for me but i have to plan my pallets XD
Same 😭
There is no "right colors" you can choose them.
*sobs in beginner frame-by-frame animator* THIS WAS SO DAMN HELPFUL HELLO!? This will surely help my animations look more consistent, thanks a lot!
one man team here
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My animation instructor claimed these are a waste of time, and he is SOOOO WRONG! These are actually very helpful for coloring animations. Thanks for this awesome, informative video.
As an anime animator, I spend my time negotiating peace treaties between my over-caffeinated characters and my rebellious pencils, all while secretly planning the next grand plot twist involving sentient sushi rolls and intergalactic dance-offs!
Summary:
BASIC
- Red Lines (Highlights): Shows where light is hitting a subject
- Blue Lines (Shadows): Indicates where the shadow is supposed to be
ADVANCED
- Green Lines (Gradient Markers): Shows the transition of gradients
- Green Lines (Blushes): Indicates different types of blushes
- Red/Magenta Lines (Patterns): Separates patterns to make them easier to see without the line art making things confusing
It's crazy how One Piece just speedrunning animation in 1 week to complete an episode and still make it so detailed and perfect
As a old animation student this should be taught no matter what
0:21 yo thats me i asked that 😂😂😂
Thank you for making this video, you explain this concept so well and understandable for a beginner like me❤❤
Glad it was helpful!
This video is so well made it helped me a lot, Thankyou so much!!
Thank you so much!!!
It feels illegal to learn this for free..
Your telling me, I’m trying to get into animation for school
If u draw alot over time u learn on ur own and just think," yeah that makes sense i do something similar"
Shhh I'd rather get this information for free than pay for it. I appreciate the knowledge.
I don’t animate, nor am I interested in animating. But here I am
Lol
When you shown the clanned character sheet. My tears came out 😢
i actualy use these colors and line not just for animation, but i also use for just doing art in general, and it sort of gives the art a realy interesting look to it
Thank you very much! I always wondered how they make the gradient effect keeping it cohesive.
me wanting to make my own anime but im just a random 12 year old girl living in my closet: 👁👄👁
Same but 13
I've been planning to do some animations, but. This helps me ALOT!!! You have a new sub!
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i finally understand everything. THanks you so much!!
i thought most of the colour should be using in every special spot while drawing Anime.
now i clear my mind set.
ONce again,
*Thanks you so much!*
As a multimedia arts student this information is so helpful, tysm!!
4:20 - The fill (uranuri) is required in every part of the process (LO -> Genga -> Douga), the reason why you typically only see it in Lo and genga is because douga is extremely rare to find, and the most common examples of them are paper douga, where the fill is actually made on the opposite side of the paper. In digital douga exports they simply export a "line" version (no fill) and "uranuri" version (with fill) for every cel. Without uranuri its impossible to keep track of the fill and shiage mistakes would be made.
6:00 - The gradient colours are always to be filled in during shiage as a solid block the same way that shadows or highlights are filled (and if it intersect with another shadow or hi-light color that would get filled with its own unique colours too), blushes are also done like this where the gradient is filled in as a solid block of pink. The plugin interpolate between the gradient color and the normal color dynamically based on their surface area and color keying, creating the gradient effect, this means the gradient is tied to the animation and remains consistent, and the gradient colors are tied to the color model palette used during shiage instead of "in comp", allowing you to define the gradient colors for different palettes (such as a night pallete or high contrast pallete)
6:45 - This is called irotore (color trace)
11:15 - In the context of anime production, it's important to make a distinction between when the "rules" are relaxed due to priorities, and when its highly regimented, what you see online is typically the "front end" of anime production (layout - genga), and not really the "back end" (douga - shiage). Yes, the people who do the front end are for the most part have freedom to shade in whatever ways they want as long as they stick to a broad stroke convention, but the "back end" is HIGHLY regimented to the point where its simpler to think of it in terms of how a computer handle input/output, and even with different companies there are expectations that everyone do things in a certain way (it also depends on how old that company is but thats another can of worms). The reason why western productions have more unique pipelines than anime is due to the fact that the western animation (or at least, the part of it that is exposed to the internet, because we wont talk about the french) industry effectively collapsed a couple of decades ago and was resuscitated from the ground up, so much of it is very much in its infancy and had to basically reinvent the wheel.
What do you mean that the western animation industry collapsed a few decades ago?
Wow this is so helpful!! Thamk you for making this video!! and if you know about the anime compositing can you make another video about the compositing process?
AS one who wants to start an animation channel THANK YOU SM! I've been looking for info like this and you have provided thx!
As someone who was confused what the lines were for,thank you for showing up on my yt homepage❤❤
I'm learning how to draw right now and its been kinda rocky lol but you def gave me the motivation to keep trying, i really loved this video!!!
I'm actually looking for this kind of guide. Thank you for the information; it's a big help for me.
Very useful video, thank you!!
In my first animation (just finished), I didn't use any shadow or highlight colors, but I believe it would make the process easier. I'll try incorporating them next time.
Thank you so much ! ❤❤❤
thank you so much man. keep up the good work
Not an animator, but after learning this, may try using it in my artworks. After all, it does get messy on high rendered artworks at a certain point.
As an aspiring animator who is somewhat intimidated by all this symbols for animation, this is really helpful! Could you do another video too about the box for camera panning, like the one at 10:13?
I’ve been trying to figure this out for awhile. Thank you
Can you recommend some apps or websites that I can use for animations?
How I admire 2d animators especially Japanese animators…they’re really something else
are they? but it sad that they are not paid well.... hell Demon Slayer are actually one of the cheapest work ever but the quality is insane.
I less interest in making animation before, after saw this I'm thinking to start learn it again. Thank you for the short guide, means a lot to me :)
This was really helpful, Thank you!
I just found your channel by accident and i simply love the way you explain things! subbed immediately!
I’ve become interested in animation after I watch ouran host club and I loved their animation and the fluid motion has inspired me into making a cute little rom com one day
Gracias por subtitular tus videos, me subscribí automaticamente :)
New to animations this is really helpful 😊
Best guide ever like a layer/outline guide
As an amateur casual cartoon animator (I think), I find this strategy of implementing highlights genuinely intriguing
At first I thought the colours were there to help animate different parts of the person, like not mixing up the lines if they intertwined together!
Well now you know what they’re for 👌
Amazing video
I am watching this on an iPad. With the exact thing you were advertising lmao!!!
Now I’ll no longer suffer in coloring processes
1 mathematical theorem, 4 colors is suficient to fill a map
Great explain thank you very much
Just had 5 anxiety meds and watching this so calm hi
No one's talking about him dropping sauces everytime he uses a clip from any anime?
great video! helped me a lot!
Glad it helped!
Right when i wondered that, I clicked home. and found this video. TYSMMMM❤
Glad to see clannad in there briefly ❤
Looks so hard but.. i respect for those who make it
“As a” person who got logged out of his friends crunchyroll account and had been binge watching all AOT seasons…that’s about it. Keep up the good work🤙
As a person who wants to do more animation projects, this is pretty cool. I sometimes used colored lines for shadows/lighting, but never really knew the specifics about it.
I’m experimenting with new animation apps and haven’t really seen the one at 8:41 (that could just be me). What app is it so I can check it out?
I use Clip Studio Paint EX on the iPad Pro.
looks like clip studio paint ex on an ipad!
0:41
Haha jokes on you......Loving Vincent actually challenged these standard animation rules. Kidding!
Entirely different process and vision for Loving Vincent, but I understand what you mean.
I was trying to figure out what was with those colors used for in storyboards/animtronics?
What is the best equipment to use when drawing/animation
my favorite
What coloured lines do they use in lighting scenes?
Literally the same lines that I mentioned in this video
Im still using purple to shade lol
eres un grande, gracias por hacer este video. si entiendo ingles solo que me cuesta escribirlo jajaja
As someone who has dabbled in animation as a casual hobby in Clip Studio Paint this was fascinating. I don't think I could ever be a full-fledged animator, partly because my brain gives a 404 error whenever I try to figure out After Effects. Lol
Watching this knowing my team only consists of me lol *le sigh
Nice video. 11:00 What do the red Xs mean in that shot?
And also they're doing THAT while animating
Do you have something on how they design clothes for their characters? They're oftentimes very detailed and unique.
Some are inspired by real life clothes, others are mashed together from various design choices, and still others are based on the time period and culture (ex, different school uniform designs in one world versus complicated magical armor in another world).
This is not my area of expertise, so it would be best to look up videos on character design. There are plenty of great courses, I’m currently taking one on Coloso.
I only use ibis paint to animates 😢😢😢😢
That's very helpful
this is intresting thank you
3:37 IS THAT STOLAS???? I must've been dreaming😧
Helluvaboss/Hazbin Hotel animator videos about compositing and animation are incidentally some of the best vids for finding little tidbits of wisdom. Like how you learn that they animate the glow of the eyes separately, or that Stolas’s cape is a green screen during production.
Can anyone tell me which software he is using in this 6:25 scan?
After effects?
Can you explain what is the letters in the animation?
A is the furthest layer back from the camera. B, C, etc is each layer above A, that is closer to the camera. Think of it like looking top-down at a stack of papers. A is the cel at the bottom of the stack.
Need a vid on why ufotable never misses
Just found your channel, will you or did you cover the topic of how does linework in animation work and how it can be replicated in various programms such as CSP, Photoshop and etc.?
I QAS LATE FOR THE PREMIERE NAUURRR
Its ok ill just watch it 💔
Im gonna comments my thoughts throughout the video
i already know this but ima watch this anyway
Thanks for explaining but installing f's plugin are so complicated
I use a color selection method in HitFilm to get around this, or I go the extreme route and just use transparent PNG’s instead, since I can’t really afford After Effects or Photoshop
You just got a subscriber…
I enjoyed this. I lol at the part where you say purple as a shadow choice is somehow bad. All of the best painters and artists use purple/blue like hues to paint shadows instead of black. Great artsy intuition if you chose it on your own!
lol the amount of beginner artists that get bullied for only using purple on a multiply layer 😅 we gotta break the mold, cuz I also really love the color purple.
OH MY GOD ITS CLANNAD!!!!!!
INVINCIBLE MENTIONED
hey!! i have been dreaming on making animations for a hobby and interest digging, is adobe animate free?
How did you find the Reference sheets for clannad from key studio?
Google. (Settei Dreams, technically. But…Google)
Muito boa as dicas !
bro caught my attention with my favorite anime waifu 😭
BROooo... Dammit ! You worth MILLIONS. Of likes ❤@SpywisMindPalaceAnimations
Can you pls say apps that can i do animation like this?
I primarily draw on an iPad and I heard you mention that you primarily animate with an iPad. I really want to become an animator, so I was wondering what programs you recommend. I primarily draw with Procreate and I've been dabbling in Procreate dreams, however Procreate Dreams is very new and is missing many features. I'm just hoping that you can give me some recommendations. Thank you!
Procreate is not a professional software, nor is it industry standard.
Studios will typically recommend ToonBoom Harmony, TVPaint, OpenToonz, or Clip Studio or Photoshop.
Wait ppl didnt know about colored lines?😮
It’s been over 9 months and I *still* get comments from people who say they didn’t know that’s what the colored lines are for.
dang
I see Akane, I like
do you know wich program they used to animate invincible?
What app will used for it?