I Worked Like a MAPPA Animator For 72 Hours

[00:00] for the next 72 hours I'm going to work

[00:02] like a mapa animator this means 12-hour

[00:04] shifts and a crazy deadline of only 3

[00:06] days to make a highly complex animation

[00:08] let's hope I can finish this in time and

[00:10] not burn out I actually woke up at 7:00

[00:12] to be able to make myself some breakfast

[00:14] to get the day started well my shifts

[00:16] are going to be from 9:00 a.m. all the

[00:17] way to 9:00 p.m. so eating a nice

[00:19] nutritious breakfast was going to be

[00:21] very important after breakfast I took a

[00:23] little morning walk to warm me up for

[00:25] the torture the light ahead then the

[00:26] second the clock hit 9: I got to work my

[00:29] first task was to plan out what I was

[00:30] going to make and since it needs to be

[00:32] mopa related I'll be animating a little

[00:34] showdown between Gojo and sakuna not too

[00:36] long after I started drawing I began to

[00:38] feel terrible presumably from my lack of

[00:40] quality sleep I'm 3 hours in and I just

[00:42] finished the story board man I'm

[00:43] exhausted I feel like I could faint at

[00:45] any moment and I still have about 9

[00:47] hours left which really does not make me

[00:49] feel any better I can't lie however I

[00:51] kept on pushing forward as there is a

[00:53] lot more that has yet to come this is

[00:54] the plan for the project The First Cut

[00:56] is going to show sukuna on the ground

[00:58] looking up at Gojo who is standing on a

[01:00] huge Rock there's also wind blowing in

[01:01] the environment to add some drama the

[01:03] second cut is a shot of sukuna face he's

[01:05] going to transition from a serious

[01:07] expression to an evil smile and the wind

[01:09] is still blowing on him pause cut three

[01:11] features a close-up of Gojo's face the

[01:13] camera slowly Zooms in as he blinks and

[01:15] hair blows in the wind cut four will

[01:16] show fire igniting from sukuna hand then

[01:19] in Cut five sukuna is going to raise his

[01:21] hands to start charging up for an attack

[01:23] cut six has a crazy camera zoom and

[01:25] rotation shot up to Gojo revealing that

[01:27] he's charging up his purple attack and

[01:29] cut seven sukuna is going to pop up his

[01:31] head and then raise his hand with fire

[01:32] next in Cut 8 Suk kuna's fire arrow

[01:34] attack will be revealed with the camera

[01:36] moving away from his face in Cut N9

[01:38] sukuna will charge up the fire arrow

[01:40] attack before quickly releasing it with

[01:41] a ton of force and in the Final Cut the

[01:43] camera will zoom out to show both of the

[01:45] attacks colliding with each other all of

[01:47] this has to be done in only 3 days MAA

[01:49] animators have to deal with stuff like

[01:51] this all the time and under a lot more

[01:53] pressure than me so I'm only getting a

[01:55] little taste of what they have to go

[01:56] through on the daily given the

[01:57] background heavy scenes I thought it

[01:59] would be a good idea to use quite a bit

[02:01] of CGI to save me some time and a lot of

[02:03] headaches so I spent a significant

[02:05] amount of time on blender making the

[02:07] environment where the characters reside

[02:09] only for me to learn a very harsh truth

[02:11] I suck at blender I can't lie I

[02:13] just wasted so much time trying to

[02:15] figure out the CGI background it looks

[02:17] horrible I'm breaking my head over this

[02:19] I don't know what I'm doing anymore I'm

[02:20] just going to do this in 2D sometimes

[02:22] things just don't go the way you want

[02:24] them to so I skip cut one for now since

[02:26] it relies on a background to do the

[02:28] animating my plan is to tackle all the

[02:30] sukuna shots first and then move on to

[02:31] the Gojo shots I then started with cut

[02:33] two I drew all of the static elements

[02:35] first then I animated his mouth

[02:37] transitioning from serious to an evil

[02:39] smile with proper spacing making the

[02:41] animation look super smooth all right

[02:43] now it's time for my little break I got

[02:45] myself some Panera Bread I'm about to

[02:46] Feast you already know and I'm kind of

[02:48] sad cuz I'm kind of cooking right now

[02:49] but you know what I'm saying we'll get

[02:50] it back once I continue I couldn't find

[02:52] anything on what MAA animators typically

[02:54] eat so for this video I'll be eating

[02:56] fast food in my 15 to 30 minute break

[02:58] each day since I assume assume they

[03:00] don't have much time to prep a nice

[03:01] home-cooked meal most days I'm not going

[03:03] to lie I don't even care about my mess

[03:05] up no more this life is looking good

[03:07] right now this is amazing next I worked

[03:09] on animating the hair and the clothing

[03:10] I'm not too proud of how this part of

[03:12] the cut looks but I really don't have

[03:13] the luxury to make everything to my

[03:15] standards if it wasn't obvious already I

[03:17] tried to match the colors as closely as

[03:19] possible to the show and I think I did a

[03:20] good job with that I'm also keeping the

[03:22] shading to a minimum to stay consistent

[03:24] with the look of season 2 as you can see

[03:26] I have a little over 4 hours left in the

[03:28] first day and I've only completed one

[03:31] animation cut so let's see if I'm able

[03:33] to pull it off cut four what's next

[03:35] hands Lord help me I'm just kidding I'm

[03:37] not scared of drawing hands everything

[03:39] was coming along very nicely up until

[03:41] making the inet of the fingers I was

[03:43] having some pretty bad inconsistencies

[03:45] with the thickness of each finger which

[03:47] caused me a lot of problems and led me

[03:49] to spend a significant amount of time

[03:51] trying to fix that I then animated the

[03:53] fire coming out of his hand which was

[03:54] done in straight ahead and it was such a

[03:56] nice therapeutic moment in the day for

[03:58] me I honestly thought it gave all pretty

[04:00] cool again I tried matching the colors

[04:02] of the fire to the fire arrow scene in

[04:03] the anime I noticed there was some pink

[04:05] and the fire in the anime which I think

[04:07] looks beautiful so I made sure to

[04:09] implement that into my own animation as

[04:11] much as I could then I got to work on

[04:12] Cut five which is similar to cut two for

[04:14] the most part I drew sukuna and yet

[04:16] again animated the hair and clothes

[04:18] waving then I sketched out sukuna hand

[04:20] coming up which looked really cool I

[04:21] can't lie before being able to finish

[04:23] this cut the clock hit 900 p.m. meaning

[04:26] it was the end of the first day I fing

[04:28] did it I did did it look at that it's 9

[04:31] it is 9: after the day ended I took a

[04:34] nice hot shower and went to sleep

[04:36] shortly after and after a long day of

[04:37] work I should get some really good sleep

[04:40] right no not really it's all right I

[04:42] guess I'm getting myself some Morning

[04:43] Sun for my circadian rhythm 7:43 I'm

[04:46] about to eat my breakfast and then I'm

[04:48] about to go for my morning walk and get

[04:50] back to work this is truly a beautiful

[04:52] day today I'm going to have this Jimmy

[04:55] Dean sandwich and some Celsius and

[04:57] that's about it cuz um I'm not trying to

[04:59] cook today I'm trying to get right to

[05:01] work as fast as I can now this right

[05:03] here this is

[05:06] epic day two going to be animating for

[05:08] the next 12 hours I'm going to try to

[05:10] get as much done try to finish most of

[05:11] the sakuna shots I mean I I kind of have

[05:13] to finish them all today it's time to go

[05:15] to work and it's time to work hard I

[05:17] continued right where I left off I

[05:18] cleaned up the animation of the hand

[05:20] colored it shaded it in and animated the

[05:22] fire I then moved on to cut seven and

[05:24] cut eight I stuck both of these together

[05:26] in the same animation timeline since

[05:27] they're kind of connected the thing

[05:29] about animating close-up faces is you

[05:31] need to be able to draw them

[05:32] consistently because even if a tiny

[05:34] thing is off it'll end up looking like a

[05:36] totally different character so what I

[05:37] ended up doing was tracing the previous

[05:39] onion skin of sukuna face and then

[05:41] placing it wherever I wanted it to go

[05:43] thank God for digital art I also made

[05:45] sure the hair animation follows the

[05:46] movement of his head so that it flows

[05:48] more naturally animating the camera

[05:49] movement for cut 8 turned out to be

[05:51] pretty hard to do especially getting the

[05:53] force shortening to look right I then

[05:54] animated the hand coming in which is

[05:56] going to be completed once I add the

[05:57] fire to it I envisioned this cut being a

[05:59] lot smoother but obviously with a time

[06:01] crunch my vision for the sequence wasn't

[06:03] going to be fully realized I think the

[06:05] worst part about this entire thing is

[06:07] how it could be relatively late but then

[06:10] you start thinking about it and you're

[06:11] like hold on I still have another 6

[06:14] hours of animating like this doesn't end

[06:17] but on the bright side I got myself some

[06:19] Chick-fil-A you already know got myself

[06:21] a yogurt with some fruit and some cookie

[06:23] crumbs and I got myself a spicy chicken

[06:26] sandwich for about a feast next I

[06:28] started animating the fire on both of

[06:30] the cuts which took an extra couple

[06:32] hours I just finished this little

[06:33] sequence and I'm kind of sad because I

[06:35] feel like I could be a lot better I

[06:37] can't I can't really do much I got I

[06:38] just got to keep on moving on because I

[06:40] don't have enough time to make the

[06:41] drawings better and do more in between

[06:43] so I need to lock in super super hard

[06:45] tomorrow I'm not even kidding I spent

[06:47] the majority of the day on these two

[06:49] cuts I then immediately started

[06:50] animating the last cut that features

[06:52] sakuna since the charging up of the

[06:54] attack is going to be a bit long each

[06:55] frame is going to be fairly spread out

[06:57] making it look less smooth but necessar

[06:59] at this point in order for me to have a

[07:01] chance of finishing this animation I

[07:02] sketched out the rough animation and

[07:04] even made an impact frame for the

[07:05] release and after a long day of

[07:07] animating my second day was coming to an

[07:09] end day two is officially finished I'm

[07:12] nervous I might be able to do it I might

[07:13] not I really hope I can finish it I

[07:15] really do it's all up to me to be honest

[07:17] so I got to lock in it's truly a

[07:19] beautiful day today too bad I won't get

[07:22] to spend it outside also you see how

[07:23] like my lens is getting foggy it's so

[07:25] humid outside oh my God holy all

[07:28] right so today is June 6th today is the

[07:31] last day 7:26 a.m. I'm going to have the

[07:34] same breakfast as yesterday

[07:36] M

[07:41] yummy it's about to be 9:00 so it's time

[07:43] to get to work I started the work day by

[07:45] cleaning up the cut I was working on

[07:47] yesterday I then added some extra impact

[07:49] frames and some cubes and dust flying

[07:51] everywhere to add more impact to the

[07:52] release even though it's not fully

[07:54] realized the animation ended up looking

[07:56] pretty dope okay so I finished all the

[07:58] sukuna shots now it's time to move on to

[08:00] the Gojo ones I think it's actually

[08:01] looking pretty good it's only 11 right

[08:04] now so I still have a long time but I

[08:06] still have to make all the backgrounds

[08:08] and paint them in and that takes a

[08:09] really long time so I need to keep on

[08:12] working and I have to do a crazy like

[08:14] rotation shot so that one I might not be

[08:16] able to finish but I'm going to try my

[08:18] best regardless I then went on to draw

[08:20] Gojo as majestically as I could then I

[08:22] animated his hair waving from the wind

[08:24] and then his clothing bro actually looks

[08:26] like he's straight out of Studio GI I

[08:28] don't know if I uh I don't know if I

[08:29] like that it's 1:00 p.m. so I only have

[08:32] 8 hours left the shot that I was mostly

[08:34] scared of was up next I didn't know how

[08:36] the heck I was going to pull this often

[08:37] time till I remembered I had made a

[08:39] really crappy environment in blender so

[08:42] I opened that up downloaded some basic

[08:44] rig of a human being placed them on the

[08:45] Rock and roughly animated the camera the

[08:48] way I envisioned it then I imported the

[08:49] video onto clip Studio paint and used it

[08:51] as a guide to know where everything

[08:53] should be the thing is my camera

[08:54] animation and blender is extremely rough

[08:56] and was a lot longer than what I had

[08:58] anticipated so I skipped around the

[09:00] video to draw only the key frames I

[09:02] would need to make this cut work the

[09:03] more I drew the more depressed I grew

[09:06] ooh bars it was truly starting to look

[09:08] hopeless this is so sad I actually have

[09:10] like no time to make this good like

[09:12] everything is so off there's nothing I

[09:13] can do man this is actually so sad 3:00

[09:15] p.m. eventually came around meaning that

[09:17] it was lunch break time for my last meal

[09:20] I got myself some Chipotle let's see

[09:22] they actually hooked me up when you

[09:23] order ble online they barely give you

[09:26] any food but it looks like um pretty

[09:28] good not bad I then went on to do the

[09:31] cleanup which took a lot of time but

[09:33] this workload and this annoying due date

[09:35] was also starting to take my soul this

[09:37] is so much work man this is so much work

[09:40] and to think this is like a fraction of

[09:42] what mapa animators go through every

[09:44] single day and I'm already like ready to

[09:46] finish this and never look back and just

[09:48] be done with this but this is some

[09:50] people's job like it's actually insane I

[09:52] have no idea how they do it every single

[09:54] day I'm struggling just like trying to

[09:56] finish this one animation and like yeah

[09:58] 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