How Hard is it to Create an Animation?

Jaune·3/13/2018, 5:35:20 AM·4 votes·1,748 views

BEFORE ANYONE STARTS RANTING ABOUT HOW I'M DISCREDITING ANIMATORS,** I AM NOT**.

I'm doing a school project where we have to debunk a belief by the general public, which in this case, is that animating is 'easy'.

NO, IT'S FREAKING NOT.

Besides, I really want to know what it's like to animate a video in League of Legends. From the rough, pencil-sketch cell animation of 'Lux: Binding Light' to the hand-painted, fairy-tale-like animations from 'ANNIE: Origins', the animators in Riot are what I call "the insane geniuses of animation."

So if you want to show your appreciation for animation and help a student understand the intricacies of animation (please, I don't know where else to contact the people that create LOL animations and not every League video has a behind-the-scenes video that shows how they do animations), then post something down here. I guess. Yeah. >U<

14 Comments

RiotRiot c0ttonnz3/13/2018, 6:25:38 PM6 votes

Greetings Jaune.

I'm a publishing lead on a team heavily invested in things you call animation. My hands aren't the ones that do the fine craft art, but perhaps I can help answer your questions.

Most recently our team worked on "The Climb" and "The Wrath of Zaun". If you're more interested in 2D animation instead of 3D our team has a good amount of experience in that as well.

I can't guarantee that I'm allowed to discuss everything, but I'll answer what I can.

Crimson Anam3/13/2018, 5:42:11 AM3 votes

Star Guardian: New Horizon anime short is the best.

Ebonmaw Dragon3/13/2018, 6:24:54 AM1 votes

Anything can be easy to do if you dont put effort, but it doesnt mean that it will be good... And anything can be easy with enough practice, but it doesnt mean that doing that is easy per se.

Cooking can be easy, but creating a great meal that tastes good is not that easy... the same can be said about anything, including animation.

https://i.imgur.com/CjT2I2f.png

See? Drawing is easy... but making a good drawn is not. For example.

SEKAI3/13/2018, 10:47:37 AM1 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba55wWnEn3s

SEKAI3/13/2018, 11:06:16 AM1 votes

In case someone is interested to sit for an hour watching a video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LgHOUTZ8Gc

SEKAI3/13/2018, 11:39:30 AM1 votes

Now, people can guess how much work has gone into this 37 seconds of animation. I don't know, but I'd like to know lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-9JWmzWxKk

(It's the preview/trailer for Violet Evergarden, that is currently airing. I have not watched it, but some say the anime so far keeps this quality quite closely. I shudder at the prospect.)

.......

This one is very super to look at too, animation wise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCSUxwuqEzQ

(It's the preview for the 3 episode OVA version of The Ancient Magus' Bride, but it's probably better to just watch the TV series version which is currently airing. They tell the exact same story, TV version is just more complete).