[0:00] for the next 72 hours I'm going to work
[0:02] like a mapa animator this means 12-hour
[0:04] shifts and a crazy deadline of only 3
[0:06] days to make a highly complex animation
[0:08] let's hope I can finish this in time and
[0:10] not burn out I actually woke up at 7:00
[0:12] to be able to make myself some breakfast
[0:14] to get the day started well my shifts
[0:16] are going to be from 9:00 a.m. all the
[0:17] way to 9:00 p.m. so eating a nice
[0:19] nutritious breakfast was going to be
[0:21] very important after breakfast I took a
[0:23] little morning walk to warm me up for
[0:25] the torture the light ahead then the
[0:26] second the clock hit 9: I got to work my
[0:29] first task was to plan out what I was
[0:30] going to make and since it needs to be
[0:32] mopa related I'll be animating a little
[0:34] showdown between Gojo and sakuna not too
[0:36] long after I started drawing I began to
[0:38] feel terrible presumably from my lack of
[0:40] quality sleep I'm 3 hours in and I just
[0:42] finished the story board man I'm
[0:43] exhausted I feel like I could faint at
[0:45] any moment and I still have about 9
[0:47] hours left which really does not make me
[0:49] feel any better I can't lie however I
[0:51] kept on pushing forward as there is a
[0:53] lot more that has yet to come this is
[0:54] the plan for the project The First Cut
[0:56] is going to show sukuna on the ground
[0:58] looking up at Gojo who is standing on a
[1:00] huge Rock there's also wind blowing in
[1:01] the environment to add some drama the
[1:03] second cut is a shot of sukuna face he's
[1:05] going to transition from a serious
[1:07] expression to an evil smile and the wind
[1:09] is still blowing on him pause cut three
[1:11] features a close-up of Gojo's face the
[1:13] camera slowly Zooms in as he blinks and
[1:15] hair blows in the wind cut four will
[1:16] show fire igniting from sukuna hand then
[1:19] in Cut five sukuna is going to raise his
[1:21] hands to start charging up for an attack
[1:23] cut six has a crazy camera zoom and
[1:25] rotation shot up to Gojo revealing that
[1:27] he's charging up his purple attack and
[1:29] cut seven sukuna is going to pop up his
[1:31] head and then raise his hand with fire
[1:32] next in Cut 8 Suk kuna's fire arrow
[1:34] attack will be revealed with the camera
[1:36] moving away from his face in Cut N9
[1:38] sukuna will charge up the fire arrow
[1:40] attack before quickly releasing it with
[1:41] a ton of force and in the Final Cut the
[1:43] camera will zoom out to show both of the
[1:45] attacks colliding with each other all of
[1:47] this has to be done in only 3 days MAA
[1:49] animators have to deal with stuff like
[1:51] this all the time and under a lot more
[1:53] pressure than me so I'm only getting a
[1:55] little taste of what they have to go
[1:56] through on the daily given the
[1:57] background heavy scenes I thought it
[1:59] would be a good idea to use quite a bit
[2:01] of CGI to save me some time and a lot of
[2:03] headaches so I spent a significant
[2:05] amount of time on blender making the
[2:07] environment where the characters reside
[2:09] only for me to learn a very harsh truth
[2:11] I suck at blender I can't lie I
[2:13] just wasted so much time trying to
[2:15] figure out the CGI background it looks
[2:17] horrible I'm breaking my head over this
[2:19] I don't know what I'm doing anymore I'm
[2:20] just going to do this in 2D sometimes
[2:22] things just don't go the way you want
[2:24] them to so I skip cut one for now since
[2:26] it relies on a background to do the
[2:28] animating my plan is to tackle all the
[2:30] sukuna shots first and then move on to
[2:31] the Gojo shots I then started with cut
[2:33] two I drew all of the static elements
[2:35] first then I animated his mouth
[2:37] transitioning from serious to an evil
[2:39] smile with proper spacing making the
[2:41] animation look super smooth all right
[2:43] now it's time for my little break I got
[2:45] myself some Panera Bread I'm about to
[2:46] Feast you already know and I'm kind of
[2:48] sad cuz I'm kind of cooking right now
[2:49] but you know what I'm saying we'll get
[2:50] it back once I continue I couldn't find
[2:52] anything on what MAA animators typically
[2:54] eat so for this video I'll be eating
[2:56] fast food in my 15 to 30 minute break
[2:58] each day since I assume assume they
[3:00] don't have much time to prep a nice
[3:01] home-cooked meal most days I'm not going
[3:03] to lie I don't even care about my mess
[3:05] up no more this life is looking good
[3:07] right now this is amazing next I worked
[3:09] on animating the hair and the clothing
[3:10] I'm not too proud of how this part of
[3:12] the cut looks but I really don't have
[3:13] the luxury to make everything to my
[3:15] standards if it wasn't obvious already I
[3:17] tried to match the colors as closely as
[3:19] possible to the show and I think I did a
[3:20] good job with that I'm also keeping the
[3:22] shading to a minimum to stay consistent
[3:24] with the look of season 2 as you can see
[3:26] I have a little over 4 hours left in the
[3:28] first day and I've only completed one
[3:31] animation cut so let's see if I'm able
[3:33] to pull it off cut four what's next
[3:35] hands Lord help me I'm just kidding I'm
[3:37] not scared of drawing hands everything
[3:39] was coming along very nicely up until
[3:41] making the inet of the fingers I was
[3:43] having some pretty bad inconsistencies
[3:45] with the thickness of each finger which
[3:47] caused me a lot of problems and led me
[3:49] to spend a significant amount of time
[3:51] trying to fix that I then animated the
[3:53] fire coming out of his hand which was
[3:54] done in straight ahead and it was such a
[3:56] nice therapeutic moment in the day for
[3:58] me I honestly thought it gave all pretty
[4:00] cool again I tried matching the colors
[4:02] of the fire to the fire arrow scene in
[4:03] the anime I noticed there was some pink
[4:05] and the fire in the anime which I think
[4:07] looks beautiful so I made sure to
[4:09] implement that into my own animation as
[4:11] much as I could then I got to work on
[4:12] Cut five which is similar to cut two for
[4:14] the most part I drew sukuna and yet
[4:16] again animated the hair and clothes
[4:18] waving then I sketched out sukuna hand
[4:20] coming up which looked really cool I
[4:21] can't lie before being able to finish
[4:23] this cut the clock hit 900 p.m. meaning
[4:26] it was the end of the first day I fing
[4:28] did it I did did it look at that it's 9
[4:31] it is 9: after the day ended I took a
[4:34] nice hot shower and went to sleep
[4:36] shortly after and after a long day of
[4:37] work I should get some really good sleep
[4:40] right no not really it's all right I
[4:42] guess I'm getting myself some Morning
[4:43] Sun for my circadian rhythm 7:43 I'm
[4:46] about to eat my breakfast and then I'm
[4:48] about to go for my morning walk and get
[4:50] back to work this is truly a beautiful
[4:52] day today I'm going to have this Jimmy
[4:55] Dean sandwich and some Celsius and
[4:57] that's about it cuz um I'm not trying to
[4:59] cook today I'm trying to get right to
[5:01] work as fast as I can now this right
[5:03] here this is
[5:06] epic day two going to be animating for
[5:08] the next 12 hours I'm going to try to
[5:10] get as much done try to finish most of
[5:11] the sakuna shots I mean I I kind of have
[5:13] to finish them all today it's time to go
[5:15] to work and it's time to work hard I
[5:17] continued right where I left off I
[5:18] cleaned up the animation of the hand
[5:20] colored it shaded it in and animated the
[5:22] fire I then moved on to cut seven and
[5:24] cut eight I stuck both of these together
[5:26] in the same animation timeline since
[5:27] they're kind of connected the thing
[5:29] about animating close-up faces is you
[5:31] need to be able to draw them
[5:32] consistently because even if a tiny
[5:34] thing is off it'll end up looking like a
[5:36] totally different character so what I
[5:37] ended up doing was tracing the previous
[5:39] onion skin of sukuna face and then
[5:41] placing it wherever I wanted it to go
[5:43] thank God for digital art I also made
[5:45] sure the hair animation follows the
[5:46] movement of his head so that it flows
[5:48] more naturally animating the camera
[5:49] movement for cut 8 turned out to be
[5:51] pretty hard to do especially getting the
[5:53] force shortening to look right I then
[5:54] animated the hand coming in which is
[5:56] going to be completed once I add the
[5:57] fire to it I envisioned this cut being a
[5:59] lot smoother but obviously with a time
[6:01] crunch my vision for the sequence wasn't
[6:03] going to be fully realized I think the
[6:05] worst part about this entire thing is
[6:07] how it could be relatively late but then
[6:10] you start thinking about it and you're
[6:11] like hold on I still have another 6
[6:14] hours of animating like this doesn't end
[6:17] but on the bright side I got myself some
[6:19] Chick-fil-A you already know got myself
[6:21] a yogurt with some fruit and some cookie
[6:23] crumbs and I got myself a spicy chicken
[6:26] sandwich for about a feast next I
[6:28] started animating the fire on both of
[6:30] the cuts which took an extra couple
[6:32] hours I just finished this little
[6:33] sequence and I'm kind of sad because I
[6:35] feel like I could be a lot better I
[6:37] can't I can't really do much I got I
[6:38] just got to keep on moving on because I
[6:40] don't have enough time to make the
[6:41] drawings better and do more in between
[6:43] so I need to lock in super super hard
[6:45] tomorrow I'm not even kidding I spent
[6:47] the majority of the day on these two
[6:49] cuts I then immediately started
[6:50] animating the last cut that features
[6:52] sakuna since the charging up of the
[6:54] attack is going to be a bit long each
[6:55] frame is going to be fairly spread out
[6:57] making it look less smooth but necessar
[6:59] at this point in order for me to have a
[7:01] chance of finishing this animation I
[7:02] sketched out the rough animation and
[7:04] even made an impact frame for the
[7:05] release and after a long day of
[7:07] animating my second day was coming to an
[7:09] end day two is officially finished I'm
[7:12] nervous I might be able to do it I might
[7:13] not I really hope I can finish it I
[7:15] really do it's all up to me to be honest
[7:17] so I got to lock in it's truly a
[7:19] beautiful day today too bad I won't get
[7:22] to spend it outside also you see how
[7:23] like my lens is getting foggy it's so
[7:25] humid outside oh my God holy all
[7:28] right so today is June 6th today is the
[7:31] last day 7:26 a.m. I'm going to have the
[7:34] same breakfast as yesterday
[7:36] M
[7:41] yummy it's about to be 9:00 so it's time
[7:43] to get to work I started the work day by
[7:45] cleaning up the cut I was working on
[7:47] yesterday I then added some extra impact
[7:49] frames and some cubes and dust flying
[7:51] everywhere to add more impact to the
[7:52] release even though it's not fully
[7:54] realized the animation ended up looking
[7:56] pretty dope okay so I finished all the
[7:58] sukuna shots now it's time to move on to
[8:00] the Gojo ones I think it's actually
[8:01] looking pretty good it's only 11 right
[8:04] now so I still have a long time but I
[8:06] still have to make all the backgrounds
[8:08] and paint them in and that takes a
[8:09] really long time so I need to keep on
[8:12] working and I have to do a crazy like
[8:14] rotation shot so that one I might not be
[8:16] able to finish but I'm going to try my
[8:18] best regardless I then went on to draw
[8:20] Gojo as majestically as I could then I
[8:22] animated his hair waving from the wind
[8:24] and then his clothing bro actually looks
[8:26] like he's straight out of Studio GI I
[8:28] don't know if I uh I don't know if I
[8:29] like that it's 1:00 p.m. so I only have
[8:32] 8 hours left the shot that I was mostly
[8:34] scared of was up next I didn't know how
[8:36] the heck I was going to pull this often
[8:37] time till I remembered I had made a
[8:39] really crappy environment in blender so
[8:42] I opened that up downloaded some basic
[8:44] rig of a human being placed them on the
[8:45] Rock and roughly animated the camera the
[8:48] way I envisioned it then I imported the
[8:49] video onto clip Studio paint and used it
[8:51] as a guide to know where everything
[8:53] should be the thing is my camera
[8:54] animation and blender is extremely rough
[8:56] and was a lot longer than what I had
[8:58] anticipated so I skipped around the
[9:00] video to draw only the key frames I
[9:02] would need to make this cut work the
[9:03] more I drew the more depressed I grew
[9:06] ooh bars it was truly starting to look
[9:08] hopeless this is so sad I actually have
[9:10] like no time to make this good like
[9:12] everything is so off there's nothing I
[9:13] can do man this is actually so sad 3:00
[9:15] p.m. eventually came around meaning that
[9:17] it was lunch break time for my last meal
[9:20] I got myself some Chipotle let's see
[9:22] they actually hooked me up when you
[9:23] order ble online they barely give you
[9:26] any food but it looks like um pretty
[9:28] good not bad I then went on to do the
[9:31] cleanup which took a lot of time but
[9:33] this workload and this annoying due date
[9:35] was also starting to take my soul this
[9:37] is so much work man this is so much work
[9:40] and to think this is like a fraction of
[9:42] what mapa animators go through every
[9:44] single day and I'm already like ready to
[9:46] finish this and never look back and just
[9:48] be done with this but this is some
[9:50] people's job like it's actually insane I
[9:52] have no idea how they do it every single
[9:54] day I'm struggling just like trying to
[9:56] finish this one animation and like yeah
[9:58] I have a due date but like I don't have
[10:00] the pressure to do it because I don't
[10:01] have a contract with like a company and
[10:03] whatnot also I'm doing this at the
[10:04] comfort of my own home the fact that
[10:06] there's such low pay in the Japanese
[10:08] anime industry I would find it very
[10:10] difficult to keep myself altogether then
[10:12] I colored in every frame and added a
[10:14] little bit of shading next I animated
[10:16] purple which looked like an actual piece
[10:18] of donkey but as time was running
[10:20] out I finished cut six okay I pretty
[10:22] much finished this shot it doesn't look
[10:24] that bad but it is 6:30 I got another
[10:27] cut left then I got to draw the
[10:29] backgrounds and then I got to composite
[10:31] everything so I still got a lot to do I
[10:33] ended up skipping cut 1 and cut 10
[10:35] entirely due to how much time I had left
[10:37] and went directly to drawing all of the
[10:39] backgrounds which ended up looking
[10:40] extremely rough I just drew some of the
[10:42] backgrounds like pretty fast so I'm
[10:44] going to start exporting everything and
[10:46] put everything in After Effects for
[10:47] compositing the other two shots that I
[10:49] have left that I haven't animated yet
[10:51] aren't 100% necessary so if I'm not
[10:53] going to be able to complete the
[10:54] animation at least I'll have something
[10:56] where you could watch it and not be
[10:58] confused so that's what I'm going to do
[10:59] right now and if I have time to do the
[11:01] other shots I'll do them this is
[11:03] probably the saddest part of this
[11:04] project because if the background had
[11:06] been better and more detailed every shot
[11:08] could have looked astronomically better
[11:10] I didn't have much to work with in terms
[11:11] of backgrounds for compositing I only
[11:13] Drew one long background and a couple of
[11:15] middle grounds so I kept on reusing
[11:17] these assets over and over again at this
[11:19] point in time I kept on looking at the
[11:20] clock and the lack of time made me work
[11:22] faster but also Messier which led to
[11:24] some of the shots not looking all that
[11:26] great and unfinished I tried my best to
[11:28] make everything in the composition look
[11:30] as consistent as possible I attempted to
[11:32] work miracles with the limited amount of
[11:34] backgrounds I had made and even though
[11:36] it looks super shitty it sort of gets
[11:38] the job done as the clock was reaching
[11:39] N9 I actually quickly went back and
[11:41] animated cut one which I had skipped
[11:43] earlier the animation would have been
[11:44] weird if it started with sukuna smiling
[11:46] and then Gojo smiling back it could give
[11:48] people the wrong idea you know what I'm
[11:50] saying I went 15 minutes over time but
[11:52] after 36 hours of work in only 3 days
[11:55] this is the final product only 16
[11:58] seconds of animation this is how it is
[12:00] for MAA animators every single day my
[12:02] goal for this video was to show why some
[12:04] of the cuts in your favorite anime look
[12:05] a bit unfinished and unrealized and
[12:07] that's because a lot of the times they
[12:09] are sometimes the deadlines are
[12:10] extremely unrealistic and it's due to
[12:12] the horrible work schedules and abusive
[12:14] work conditions a lot of animators face
[12:16] MAA animators have expressed their
[12:18] frustrations obviously feeling upset
[12:20] that they weren't able to deliver their
[12:21] best work due to these terrible
[12:23] deadlines and now I can sort of share
[12:25] that feeling it's sad to not be able to
[12:27] make something you're proud of and have
[12:28] thousand have people Dogpile on you and
[12:30] call you worthless but that's the anime
[12:32] industry and anime fans for you if you
[12:34] want to watch me suffer further you can
[12:36] watch the video that's up on the screen
[12:37] right now where I animated the world's
[12:39] most offensive manga in only 3 days