Anime Animators Do THIS While Animating

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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!?

Animator who works on anime here: Generally Black, brown, grey line: Main line Blue line: shadow Green line: 2nd shadow, gradient lines Red line: Highlights, cheek touch, additional touch details or line separations Magenta line: Additional details such as strands of hair, or things that have a different color than the base coloring of the character (mostly used by Kappe who likes to add a million details) As for the filling, called shadow markup Orange/cream: skin color Purple/pink: hair Light Blue: Cloth shading Light green: additional cloth shading, ground shadow shading Bright yellow: Highlight fill As you said it varies depending on the studio and also depending on the animator, someone like Vercreek for example will just use light blue and bright yellow to save time due to his high volume of work While someone like Mahmoud likes to use all of the colors that are on the animation model sheets (I could talk about Japanese animators too but it’s the same for everyone, also since you showed their work I figured it would be a good example to point out since I know both Verc and Mahmoud) Me, I just stick to the standard I layed before and as long as it’s clear and recognizable no one bats an eye Hope that helps

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1:52 Dozens? mad respect to the artists who can get that look in 12 layers. me out here with unfathmiable amounts of layers

Hello! i work in the anime industry as an animator , i generally do Layouts and Genga , i would like to mention about the shading and the color fills , those are generally for color separation! and totally depending on character sheets , in Layouts (the rough stage) you can roughly mark the shadows and highlights , your LO then goes to the Enshutsu (episode director) , sakuga kantoku (animation director) , sou sakuga kantoku ( chief AD) , they will make corrections to your LO and draw some of the frames on model of the character designs(the enshutsu check will be more focused on the feel and timing , expression of the cut etc meaning they will make changes to the time sheet etc and instruct specific changes from the sakuga kantoku or production like if they want to reuse a previous asset for a cut etc and the sakuga kantoku's corrections will be more drawing focused!) and then you do the Genga process where you clean even the rest of the frames matching their corrections if you get the cut back for genga if the schedule is good if not it generally goes to ni-gen (second key animation) meaning someone else does clean up for your cut , after this stage it goes to inbetweening (douga) and then Genga sakuga kantoku (Genga AD) and then to the tiedown stage and then coloring department , the colors you fill is more of a production thing rather than a studio thing and can vary production to production and sometimes characters have extra details where you need to use different colors to separate those details from shading and highlights , (shading is generally outlined with blue outline and then filled with whichever color from the sheets , red outline filled with yellow is for highlights) if you look at hiromatsu shuu's fate PV for example they have a very painting esque style and for that they add multiple additional details the genga man and LO artist will have to add when working and those use additional color separation! (additionally when there is no shadows added that is mostly stylistic , it's called Kagenashi かげなし , also just to correct at 9:37 that frame is not a LO frame it's Genga (clean) LO's are generally rough and only few frames are drawn somewhat cleanly! sometimes when they don't draw a certain part of the body and only one part is cleaned and colored that's called an inbetween guide , it's used when you want a specific type of pose so you guide the inbetweener and they'll do the genga for that frame for you! sorry for the long comment i just wanted to confirm a lot of the things so that people dont take away a wrong understanding of few of the things!

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.

I've been searching for an explanation of those lines for MONTHS !! To how to use it, the right colors, everything . THANK YOU !!

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!

I don’t animate, nor am I interested in animating. But here I am

As a old animation student this should be taught no matter what

As an animator in the industry, I can't fully agree with hair and designs being made easier to animate than illustrations. At this point, designs are becoming so hard to work with that I believe I'm being hired to make moving illustrations unlike western animation productions. I'm very sure you described kagenashi however, I've never really found common instances of shadows being done in post, maybe just gradients but LO is where most shadows will be done. The color selection can differ per studio, yes, but LO is pretty diverse. A lot of other animators can work with dark pencil shading while others use only blue and red (I often draw my BGs with only black to add details like ambient occlusion and more dynamic shadows), some will follow the sheet exactly. It's preference a lot of the time but not during the second key animation stage(ni-gen /二原 *after all the checks are done). Also red is more of color separation, it's easier to work with that in mind. Pretty educative video, wish there were more videos like this and dong chang's back when I started

thank you so much man. keep up the good work

I've been planning to do some animations, but. This helps me ALOT!!! You have a new sub!

Thank you for making this video, you explain this concept so well and understandable for a beginner like me❤❤

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!!!

Very useful video, thank you!!

This video is so well made it helped me a lot, Thankyou so much!!

As a multimedia arts student this information is so helpful, tysm!!

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!