The Animation of Indivisible
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Indivisible has been in the works for many years and has been painstakingly animated. Let's look at it!
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Fact of the day, did you know there's such a thing as a "paper wasp" which produces honey?
Actual wasp honey. That's mental, right?
I wonder what it tastes like. - เกม
I incorrectly refer to Ginseng as "her" instead of the official "they", so I apologise for the error!
No need to apologize, it's not really that big of a deal. I always refer Ginseng as female.
king take
Really thought that Ginseng was female and in the game they kept referring to her as they because it was Ginseng AND Honey her imaginary friend or split personality thing I don't know, but I didn't get too far into the game so I don't know what happens later.
@@alenezi989a3 Honey is the weird creature thing in Ginseng's hat.
@@GottaFistDemAll oh its real thing? thought it was a toy XD
It’s surreal and humbling to see frames I cleaned up in an animation lecture video.
Oh wow, which ones did you do?!
Thanks for being part of a beautiful looking game!
same lol though I'm more on the anxious side, still wondering are my frames good??
TH-cam hours
🤔
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy He’s legit. That’s Cory Holmes.
*talking about appeal in design *
* Keeps zooming into ginseng and honey *
I think they're adorable, too
“Who’s that Pokémon?”
Pikachu!!
“It’s Dan!”
FU-!!
I just assumed it was a Jigglypuff seen from above...
It's very important to eat your socks, I'm glad your toddler is looking out for you.
Always eat your socks
I used to know a guy who never ate his socks
Next thing you know he *dies!*
Those characters, so lively, full of flow and pride. So much appeal!
Also love how Anja is an angry gurl. Not literally angry, but her expression, mostly the shape of the eyes, give her this menacing vibe.
Just think of the great animation to come when 14 more characters are added:
Antoine and Sangmu (delayed for mechanics complexity), 9 guest characters (like Juan from Guacamelee and Annie from Skullgirls), and 3 backer Incarnations
I've seen a couple but I had no idea there was that many!! That's awesome!
BallotBoxer Arent Shantae and Shovel Knight going to be added later too? It’ll be nice to see those guys in this style.
Wait what now I'm hyped!!
12 moments captured moments before disaster
I loved the “Who’s that Dan? It’s Dan!” bit. It was great.
Hehehe
But which Dan is it? Root? Floyd? Maybe Olsen?
...There are a lot of TH-cam Dans.
@@keysmash_roa That's Dan Floyd. Who knows a couple of other Fans, but I don't think they have their own channels.
Dan Lowe is also a video game animator with his own channel but he doesn't upload too often.
0:57 That transition is amazing
🥰
"The Broken Limb..."
>Freeze frames on a character whose limbs aren't connected normally in the first place.
Okay then.
Your electricity obsession is not sad! It's great, and you make great stuff!
Thanks for this video, it's such a neat breakdown of the skills and techniques that went into the game. Indivisible is gorgeous, so it's nice to learn something about the process through which the animation works.
Also, I never thought I'd say this to anyone, but I enjoyed your sponsored segment. It was really inventive how you took us literally out of the video to talk about Skillshare - very stylish and fun!
Thanks for the kind thoughts, VGST!
Yeah haha, I'm kinda interested in doing something interesting for sponsored segments that doesn't out people off 😅
Glad you enjoyed it!
Mariel Cartwright is just the best. She and her husband are the power couple of modern game animation, and I can't wait to see what she does next.
She's truly an inspiration. I love that they're an animating couple ❤️
Ahh that's a shame. I wonder if they'll do an animated adaptation of future games as *Future Games?*
Darn that is such a shame.
"As long as your character looks and feels interesting and not stiff or boring, appeal has been applied"
Slowly turns head towards gamefreak...
I watched a documentary about Leonardo da Vinci, and it’s interesting how they compare his early portraits with the Mona Lisa. His studies of human anatomy, optical illusions, and color studies really show how much the Mona Lisa looks and feels human.
The use of smears and other optical illusions I’d argue do the opposite (showing information) in Indivisible, but again it just *feels* right, and makes the characters feel more “real.”
Smears might obscure details of motion and character design, but that doesn't mean they can't convey information. I don't know much about Indivisible's mechanics, but smear frames are obviously-different enough from other frames that they make a good place to put the mechanical effects of something. The moment an attack deals damage is an obvious example.
I never actually heard of this game before but you've made me want to get my wallet out!
The animation also looks nice too with it's cartoony feel but looks realistic too somehow in my personal opinion.
Great video, Dan!
Same here! Never heard of this game, and there's a Nintendo Switch version, time to start a new game!
@@TheKiburedo the switch version is not out yet i dont think
@@bikeybill just checked, the date is TBA sadly
I'm drawing a close to any conversations that say the gameplay is bad because that's not the topic of the video.
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy Ok.
I really like the turning animations myself. When I first noticed Ajna's, I just turned her in place for a while to soak it all in.
Unfortunately, it still ends in a sprite-flip like every character is ambidextrous, so it loses a little of its impact when you notice that.
I'm glad you slow-mo'd the Zebei arrow shot. Every time the battle would end with a freeze-frame on the end of that animation, I wanted a better look at how he got there.
Always loved how tungar wears his urumi as a turban
I don't have much else to contribute since your the animation expert, but something fun to point out. Qadiras entire moveset and animations seemingly are a big send up to Captain America from the Marvel vs Capcom series. Many of her attacks resemble his, such as Charging Star and Stars and Stripes. They even have similar multiple smear effects in place. Watch some gameplay footage of Cap in Marvel Vs Capcom 1, 2 or 3 and you'll see exactly what I mean. It just goes to show how much love of fighting games and attention to detail that Lab Zero puts into their games
That is so true, I hadn't even noticed! Thanks for pointing that out, I even studied Captain America in another video 😅
I thought those lingering multiples looked familiar.
Video: Skullgirls
Me: *frikin love that game*
Great video! Glad to see so much love put into something that can easily be overlooked! Gotta say those long smear frames are some of my favorites in games really drives the point.
Thanks Tay!
This is awesome brother. I've watched your Metroid series, and now that i'm moving into games I haven't played, you're really planting some seeds.
I need this game. I've heard everything I need to hear. Lead animator of Skullgirls and opening by Trigger! But even aside from buzzwords that make me drool this game looks amazing!
You can see all the love that went into this game! I hope the gameplay is fun and diverse, and crafted with the same amount of love!
MelvaCross sorry lad but it’s all presentation but nothing else
The gameplay is a joke after you get 3 super meters (mid game)
The story is shallow
Characters aside from first 2 have 0 depth or development
Can we please keep the topic of conversation to that of the video?
I'm not down for dumping on a game that's had so much hard work put into it.
Video Game Animation Study well sorry lad but just putting the effort and love doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be bashed if it fails with its quality
Again, this isn't a review of the game, it's studying the animation.
@@LTDLetsPlays sounds like you need to get good, since you're bad at video games if you have trouble with this one
Skullgirls has a Guinness world record for most frames of animation per character. It has 11,515 frames of animation for its 8 playable characters (DLC characters not included) which is an average of 1,439 frames per fighter.
A team that lead a game like that made this game, as a platformer came out beautifully done at all times.
What i enjoyed the most was how you enjoyed talking about it.
Another masterclass, Dan. For a moment I thought you were going to get through a whole video without mentioning Mega Man! Also, was the sock well worn?
I will never not mention Mega Man!! 😈
I think the sock had been on her foot all day!
And thanks!
Am i the only one who would like a hour long video of animation analisis?or a series analising this game?
SAME
I just finished the game like 3 weeks ago and I loved it. Zerolabs deserves more recognition for both skull girls and indivisible.
I honestly wish I found this video sooner. I always loved Indivisible for its characters and the animation effort just makes me appreciate them more.
Also, all this talk about electricity effect and not once talk about Lanshi? He is such a brilliant example of everything because he is big, round, on four legs and you can pet him.
I just watched your Metal Slug videos on tank animation and thought that the peeps at Lab Zero pretty much used the same principle on animating Razmi's idle stance.
She has no reason to bounce in rhythm at all but it'd be real weird to just have her standung still in combat.
I just found it interesting.
I realise why its this length, and its probably best for it to be so. But i could watch you analyse animations like that for hooouurs!
Lab Zero makes beautiful animation. It's just what they do.
Got the game on my Birthday
And I remembered this video!
TH-cam, you did good today!
My favorite enemies animation so far will either be the Crocodiles in Tai Krung City or the giant Sphinx Head enemy on top of that one high area you keep jumping up in Ashwhat. Like climbing a mountain and jumping down.
Would love to see a follow up about enemies, the animation in this is beautiful. Even the screen shots of this game scream quality.
love your research vids.. Just started study on "Johnny Bravo" snappy movements .. its amazing what they did with huge smears and so few frames
3:01 That's being a pro!
Also
DAD 100
Thanks, past me
WE HAVE THE GAME NOW! A happy birthday indeed!
How did I miss this video in my sub feed? The world may never know Dan.
Ah man, that's so annoying to hear!
Video Game Animation Study I probably just didn’t notice it when the video first released. Past two weeks have been kinda busy for me anyway
Absolutely amazing review ♡
Más por favor! Tu canal es increíblemente sobresaliente! :DD
Despite how old this game is now. I still really want to try this game out but I’m just waiting on sale. Something about the way this is animated draws me interested in this game. I really like 2D animation and wish there was more of this in games.
You'd be surprised how much 2D animation is in games.
This game isn't that old, it's barely even a year. Besides, it doesn't matter how old a game is, you can still play it whenever.
The frame at 11:21 is great! nice breaking of anatomy to emphasize the swings power!
Nicely done! I think I've learned a lot from this video!
Can't ignore the resemblance of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water main character... amazing analysis! Lovely game also!
Favorite enemy animation? Ouch, that's a toughie. I guess it would be the tail lash flip attack from the naga/snake lady enemies in the nightclub basement.
Thanks for making this video!!!
We need a Dan voice pack
Just discovered your channel and it’s pretty amazing! I’m game artist and it’s very inspirational. Nice work!
Thank you!
Welp, time to add this game to my steam wishlist!
Wonderful video, Dan. I thoroughly believe that any studio looking to create a 2D game (or even 3D for that matter) should at least consider consulting you about the animations. You really know what you're talking about when it comes to this stuff. I'm also seriously considering getting this game now.
Ahw thank you! Ideally I'd like to run my own game studio one day 😅
Awesome! I love it!
Good work
I'd definitely watch The Animation of Indivisible 2! :D
Tungar's up circle is so damn cool
The Lv3...
Indian Wario is an Iron Chef!
Great video man !!
Not sure what you could do about it. But a video about that recent game Afterparty
I'll look into it
This is definitely a game Ima pick up on the Switch when it comes out. And of course Im always down for Dan gushing about animation smears and multis.
Marvelous video!
what a game! really amazingly done, I want to play it :D
I think animating smear frames right is the most rewarding and satisfying thing to animate, also nice video makes me want to play this game lol
Cool video. I think my favorite enemy animation might be any of the huge turtle in Kaanul. Each one is super exaggerated, with a very long recovery time after.
Just as a note, Ginseng is identified as "they" in the game, not "she".
Ah my bad! Thanks for the info!
It's cool that they went with a pretty ambiguous voice for them as well.
I wouldnt mind at all another video about this game animation
Great video! Insta-subbed!
The beginning and end of the sponsored segment was very well edited.
I read that as invisible for a second
Sorry, I can't talk about my favorite enemy animations. Too busy enjoying kicking all sorts of butt with Tungar.
The way he carries himself in, and relishes, combat is a joy to behold.
I do bloody love that little guy
SAME
8:12
Just like when you get hit by a medusa head?
SO MUCH FUN
*Castlevania PTSD starts up*
I have bell ticked yet didnt get notif for this!
Ergh. Stupid TH-cam. I'll have to set up a mailing list.
God I'm in love with the animation in SkullGirls and now Indivisible. I make Rigging 2D animation for 4 years but now I think it's time to learning more about frame by frame. Your videos are awesome. Subcribes!!!
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I'm curious as to why they don't have all the characters on screen in your party all the time? I would love a Space Opera Epic side-scrolling ARPG with this hand-drawn style inspired by the cartoons of the 80s such as Thundercats, Ulysses 31, Galaxy Rangers, Transformers The Movie 86 and The Lensman.
Great content though.
Well it'd be a bit of a nighmare managing all your characters at once, I guess it's easier to have just the main one.
Yeah that idea sounds awesome!!
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy Do you think if it had been more of a straight up RPG without the platforming they'd of had all the characters on screen. If you were making something like that, hand drawn but a pure RPG/ARPG and like my idea above and you wanted a sense of epicness in terms of location bit still wanted the lovely character animations. What view would you choose?
They actually explain _why_ they're not on-screen all the time. The main character has some sort of psychic pocket-dimension in her head, and the allies she recruits basically just live in there. I think she can also hear their thoughts and stuff when they're inside. Or something like that. Definitely more of an explanation thought up to justify gameplay, rather than the other way around, but an explanation is an explanation.
I'm still grappling with the fact that I just played this as a homebrew NES rom.
Say whuuuuuut?
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy Check it! kasumi.itch.io/indivisible I actually found it on a different site that didn't have all the dev's info, so I didn't realize it was a fan game, or that it was based on anything else until just now! lol
If you like lightning animation, check out the animations of dragon nest's cleric classes, you'll LOVE IT. Best animation for lightning I've ever seen in a videogame
Dan pls make video on a game called fancypants
You should definitely do a video on 80's animated electricity effects! I'm sure you could tie it into vidjagames and hand-drawn effects in general.
If you really wanted to go back to the roots of effects animation, you could also look at stuff like Joshua Meador's work on the id monster from Forbidden Planet.
Oh man, I need to watch that film again! Thanks for the suggestion!
1:40 hey listen it's "Brainmelt"!
Good ear!
Have you tried Ajna's Up arrows attack followed immediately by down attack?
She smiles and blows up the arrows she just shot.
Not much but I just think its really cute
Ohhhh I didn't even think to combine ups and downs, I'm gonna try that now!
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy did you try it out?
I haven't yet
You should do a video on the GBA Fire Emblem games.
5:57 my invincible _[KINGU KURIMUSON]_ erased your turning animation and lept past it!
can you make a video on the animation in rivals of aether?
LOl yeah I also think of her as the Raven character too.
I mean, who doesn't? :P (Aside from people who don't know one or the other, lol.)
Fact : animation is a superior version of drawing
If I could draw one single frame as good as any ex-Disney animator, then I guess I'd agree.
hi you have a good channel
2:56 The leg hop is so awkwarrrd! But I guess he’s already self-aware on it
Well it was only demonstrating a point, I did it in about 10 minutes 😝
He says: the animation is by Mariel Cartwright
I hear: the animation is by Mario Kart, right?
13:15 theres faint ringing and i thought my homephone was going off.. then i realised i dont have a home phone.
Indivisible needs to be revamped somehow. The character designs, animations and atmosphere are too good to be kept under the rug of bad pacing and unrefined gameplay
Hopes for a sequel, spiritual or otherwise?
Oh yeah definitely
My dude wtf are you talking about the game is good actually no one of my favorite games and on a side note have even finished the game or played it lol
It definitely needs work in its world design, cos there were points where I was like..."where do I go now", and it wasn't communicated properly.
1:05 where can i find that light
I got mine from a local geek stationery store, but I'm sure you can find it online
I was a backer of Indivisible. I absolutely love the characters, overall full-of-life feeling, and the smaller animations like the turnarounds in combat and such, the character artists/animators did an amazing job for sure. Unfortunately some of the enemy balancing(or lack-thereof) completely cause my play-through to come to a halt.
Which ones? They've said they're working on some rebalancing post release. Was it the iron kingdom grunts in port maerifa? They're tuned way too high for the point in the game they are so it takes forever to kill them.
If it's others, well, I recommend learning the combo system more since it's pretty easy to steamroll most enemies in two turns max once you get a good combo going.
@@AStandsForFrench Yeah it was those enemies at the port. Plus the desert cave area boss. Lost interest after spending all that time. Might go back to it eventually.
I found it tough but then I used to Gensing to heal my party and it made it so much easier
Feels like I'm being misunderstood here. The difficulty wasn't my issue, the above mentioned fights were too tedious for me at the time is all. Felt like the super boss fight of the backer preview but without the satisfaction of beating it.
@@smolblockboi the worm boss is super divisive in my experience, like I've watched a few LP's of the game and beaten it myself of course, and I feel like half of people get completely ganked by the wizard teleporting constantly and either haven't learned to block out of combat yet or aren't good at it; or they totally steamroll it by just dashing into him repeatedly and killing him without him teleporting away or seeing the worm more than once or twice. Mine was one of the former, then the latter on the second attempt.
I heartily recommend giving it another go. those are definitely the worst combat parts of the game in my experience, and imo the story and character interactions are worth it. outside of the resolution of the iron kingdom and a couple bits that seemed glitchy in kaanul's story wrapup, it was pretty satisfying, and the finale was great. you'll also get to see some really crazy enemies and bosses later on, including a completely hand-drawn screen-filling boss which just totally gobsmacked me
"It would totally require a video of itself"
WELL??? I'M WAITING!~
More seriously I am subscribing to your patreon when I get home in the hopes you do more on indivisible because it seems to have been completely overlooked after the first week which is absolutely criminal, and the animation chops behind it are staggering. I hope you finish the game because some of the stuff the later characters do is just as good if not better than the early characters(Naga Rider in particular has some great animations, and the final area of Mount Sumeru is glorious in design)
Oh that's wonderful of you.
I'd have to consider it, I have a bit of a schedule but it could certainly go on the list! I'll definitely try finish it before Christmas!
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy be warned, the game's a bit longer than one might think for a metroidvania type game. I 100%'d it in 25 hours, though the average seems to be 20-22 hours. There's quite a bit of story and character quests(think the mass effect loyalty missions) in the game, deceptively so, I thought the first "point of no return" was the actual finale, but noooope :v
👌
Will you be analyzing Fire Embkem for Game Boy Advance? Those games have awesome animation and abuse smear frames but that makes attack way more spectacular.
I honestly haven't played them, so they're not on the list for now.
I want to get this game when I can! Also I'd like to see an Marvel Avengers game with this type of animation too
Great video, it's really refreshing to see female characters in games that have really unique silhouettes and interesting designs. No same face here!
4:04 who is the one with the axe and shield
Ajna's mom ( not her real mom )
Im surprised you didnt mentioned how Quadira's smear style is a direct reference to 2d mvc cap. America animation style
Mm yeah, I could've, especially as Mariel mentions this explicitly in her GDC talk.
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy maybe in a future video you can go indeph into what each smear style changes about the feel, and how hitstop on overshoot/smear vs hitstop on key pose after it differs the feel
Bro, i'm way to late, still; la that redminus animation?
Redminus animation?
6:16 A I the only one who wants them as fully playable characters ?
I really wanted the robot
You half-joked about it, but I would watch multiple videos of you just talking about Indivisible's anims
I would like to do that, but I think I'd bore myself talking a similar thing over and over. Sorry!
Animation and stylization are indeed amazing, and it's a shame to see that the game industry is still chasing photorealism and ever more unappealing bland designs instead of focusing on the freedom and the imagination that the videogame medium can provide.
That, and there's a depressingly large amount of people that seem to think that anything that doesn't strictly adhere to human anatomy is automatically "bad art".
I can't say I've encountered anyone who thinks non-anatomy is bad art, if I'm honest.
Also, I don't mind part of the games industry pursuing photorealism in games, that's a really interesting channel to go down and it'll be fascinating to see where we are in ten years.
It'd be bland if that's all the games industry was chasing, but the industry is so diverse that's there's enough development in all areas to please all audiences, so I wouldn't say it was a shame.
Was that sock good ?
It was
@@VideoGameAnimationStudy lmao
Who's that Dan?
Dan!
Audience:those are 4 seconds of my life that i will never be able to take back
The animation is stellar, and I'm also in love with pretty much all the character designs. THIS is how you do diversity in video games. Every character, no matter their skin color, size, shape, pronouns, or anything else really, is given a chance to shine. Plus I absolutely dig the fact there's lots of feminine guy characters and masculine women characters. I know I'll likely get shit for a comment like this, but who cares? The world is a very diverse place with all kinds of people. So you can't even make the argument that the diversity in the cast isn't realistic.
Don't you love it when people whine about the lack of realism of a solid amount of diversity... in a game about a fantasy universe where magic, monsters, superhuman powers and a girl who absorbs people in her head are all a thing, heh?
@@jessiehogue.
Okay, but fantasy is always based in reality. We can't imagine anything that _isn't_ based on something we already know. Unless you make all your characters blue, or green or something, race is an issue that _will_ come up, and you _will_ need an answer for how to deal with it.
If anything, having a game with well-written, deep and diverse characters, _is unrealistic,_ because so much media today struggles with diversity and representation. Usually minorities are treated as joke characters, or get killed off in the first season. Or when a show tries to be inclusive, the writers only seem to focus on a character's race or sexuality, instead of giving them an in-depth character.
It's more rare and refreshing to see a game that does diversity _right._ I'm not saying every single show or game has to be diverse. But those that try to be often fail miserably at it. Which makes this game all the more better.
@@bugjams ...All true... which doesn't change a thing to my point. It is completely nonsensical for people to complain about there being diversity in a game because 'realism' when they are willing to suspend their disbelief about everything else. People who do, have issues.
@@jessiehogue.
No, it does change a thing about your point. Not all fantasy is escapism. And lots of fantasy has a _message._ Like Lord of the Rings, or Star Wars, they all have themes and messages that relate to the real world.
Some game developers want one of their messages to be that inclusivity is good. That diversity is good. That people are not worse, or weird, for being different. That's perfectly acceptable to have in a fantasy setting.
Again, saying _every single movie or game_ has to be diverse isn't fair to say either, because maybe they don't have a message that relates to diversity, or the setting doesn't call for it. But it is a fair critique that anyone can make, especially with how some games treat minorities. Even more so when how a group of people are treated _clashes_ with the message of the game. Like if your game is about working together to overcome obstacles, but the game treats allies of a certain race or gender like they're less valuable than others.
Diversity also helps open up more worldbuilding opportunities. If you have characters of all kinds of ethnicities from all parts of your world, that gives you more reason to explore each area in-depth. If they were all the same, why bother explaining the lore behind more than one location?
@@bugjams Neither of the things you said were part of my point, therefore, no, it absolutely doesn't change a thing to it. I never said, nor implied, that all fantasy was escapism, nor did I state or suggest that fantasy held no message.
I simply stated that to say that diversity is unrealistic when so many other, actually unrealistic elements get a pass, is nonsense. In and of itself, based solely on the words I used here. Nothing more, nothing less. No hidden meanings, no additional thoughts or deeply reflected philosophical concerns here. Just, 'Diversity is hell of a lot more realistic than magic and monsters'. If you don't agree with that much, then we're gonna have to agree to disagree, be cause you're not convincing me otherwise anytime soon.
Again, I'm not saying anything you said - aside from insisting what you said changed anything to my statement - was wrong. I actually agree with everything you said afterwards. I'm just saying that it has nothing to do with my point/statement mentioned above, and I still - though respectfully - stand by said statement 100%.