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I absolutely despise people who shit on animation and call themselves an animator just cuz they do separate drawings and call it an “animatic” like bitch do understand the meaning of moving pictures? They just annoy me so much, heck, even got into an argument about animations and animatics, they might be different in some way but they do include moving frames. Drawings that have a character move their mouth open and shut is not the same thing and stop saying it’s an animatic cuz it’s a goddamn slideshow you person.
Honestly most these people make those “animation memes” and i have no problem with people who do that, i do it sometimes, i enjoy it, my friends like it but people who just shit on others and say it’s animation and criticize other people who DO animate just annoys me a lott
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Yeah, I’ve seen some story-time “animators” pull that before. And it mostly works because Lots of their fan bases are children who haven’t tried animation themselves.
Honestly some story time animators do animate. They’re just lazy to do an entire video where they just animate a video and we can all agree on that
Now some call themselves animators as their character just goes through a series of drawings with no movement whatsoever
Yeah, I just don’t like it when They call themself an animator when it’s just a sprite with no movement.
Why is it called an “animation meme” if it isn’t funny?- They’re mostly just edgy.
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I honestly don’t even find them funny. Just enjoyable seeing different types of animations for one trend
“meme” doesnt always mean haha funny anymore my dude 😁
i despise animation memes and all that stuff but what they do does fall under it’s oxford definition 😁😁😁
takes like 5 seconds to do basic research too so lol
Oh yes thanks man 👍,
I was just going off of the second definition 📖 because memes are usually “humorous in nature” 😂.
emphasis on “usually”
Yeah, memes are not that funny here.
ppl always gonna shit on other ppl and ideas
source: pc vs mac
apple android
ps vs xbox
traditional animation vs much superior SN-like animation
Ye, alot of the “animations” that reach trending on Facebook are just frickin slideshows. My most reacted comment was actually me pointing that out in an edglirds “animation” post
My sister does Gacha garbage and calls it animating despite the fact that it is, at the very most, just storyboarding and she also doesn’t combine the images into a gif or video or whatever… so like, it isn’t animation
I’m pretty sure everyone hates the type of people who say “u suck” and “I could do better” but they made an animation worse than yours.
Lol I completely agree
it’s an absolute shame that animation wasn’t what it used to be before, especially in youtube
I remember when claymations, stop motions, 2D paper drawing, stickman animations, and flash animation thrived on the platform, but youtube’s algorithm shift forced change, thus alot of these types of content creators got lost in the sands of time, while others adapted into these storytime “animators” or animation “memers”, or finding success in a different field
Now that the algorithm favours people like this, alot have tried doing so but put way less effort into them by just drawing animatics rather than, well, animating them.
It’s such a shame that you probably can gain an audience through lazy animatic memes, or “””””animated”””””” storytime videos, and it sucks
It also doesn’t help that rarely do we sticknodes animators get popular outside of the community, alot of our audience are just fellow sn animators, and just subscribe out of comradery rather than legitimate interest
It sucks and youtube sucks harder, but we gotta make do with what we have right?
I would also like to point out the blatant bland parodies that some animators, or well, content creators thrive off of, i remember a channel who used to animate parodies as a sideline project but the audience demanded for him to just make parodies rather than his original work, thus tarnishing his image and making him sorta lose his mind
There’s also lhugeny, i don’t recommend watching him because he’s just a bland formulaic ‘make a song about something popular and animate it very shittily’ content creator with a very shitty artstyle and palette choice that it makes me want to rip my eyeballs out and throw them in bleach, it’s the only reason i really remember him, the songs ain’t even that good, that comes from someone who loves music
I was reading through this post then came your frickin’ *thesis*! Props!
I’m lookin through old stuff I said. Oooo, Ooooo my dumbass brain…
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I don’t really have anything to add other than full animations definitely take more work in time, (please don’t explode on me) but it also must take skill to make a good animatic.and that I could possibly find an animatic with more skill and effort than an animation. Yes it’s totally uncool to shit on someone else but this goes both ways… (please note I am not trying to say they are the same thing, also most animated memes are boring.)
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Animatics are slideshows
How you ever seen like deleted scenes on a animated movie or something? That’s what an animatic is. An animatic is basically a test run, you have the key frames so the animators can get a feel for the angles and the pace of the scene, it also helps the sound designers get the audio cues right.