Hybrid animation is NOT 'The Spider-Verse Style'

Script, VO, character animation by Cam
(Twitter blows these days, I highly recommend Bluesky)

Editing, VFX, character composition by Sam

Animator explains why Arcane is mostly 2D:

Wii Shop Channel Bossa Nova:

3D assets used:

0:00 - Hybrid animation is not new
5:00 - It was supposed to be invisible
8:45 - What about The Peanuts Movie?
11:54 - This is the part where I talk about frame rates.
13:59 - You're a coward if you skip this part
15:47 - What Spider-Verse ACTUALLY did first
18:59 - The start of the 3D renaissance
21:39 - Stylistic Mimicry VS Uniformity
22:33 - Some cool examples
29:11 - The secret third category
31:54 - Outro

[ArchaicArcadiac]

whats annoying is people forget about the amazing world of gumball's absolute OVERHAUL on the idea

[hamsteru]

someone was saying “yeah I didn’t like puss and boots the last wish because they were just trying to copy Spiderverse’ s style.”
And ever since then I’ve been confused bc first of all yeah it was more painterly but it wasn’t the Spiderverse style, and secondly why would that ever be a bad thing.

[slubus]

Calling every similar 3D animation "Spider verse like" would be like calling every kind of soda a "coke". Wait...

[runforitman]

5:21 i really like the projector warming up bit
All it needed was the thing that overlays saying you need to replace the bulb

[fainterdot]

The Kubo mention hurt so much. It is a BEAUTIFUL movie that is massively underappreciated.

[santiagoacosta]

The clashing art style of gumball is one of its best things; the environments are photo realistic to contrast the wacky and creative character designs, and you can get a lot of information out of their animation styles. The realistic 3D model of tina that looks straight up from Jurassic Park communicates her antagonistic role at the beginning of the show, but while we learn more about the character, the constant clashing and union of the character's mental and physical characteristics make for a great comedy.

[AshtarteD]

I'm still upset that Medusa film got passed over. Sony are idiots for skipping that one.

[ThevenimX]

Chowder touched its toes into the smiling friends side with textures but Gumball did everything intentionally, the difference is the way they attempt to blend thing together

[marsmugio]

Was gonna leave a comment voicing my frustration about how you didn't mention Ufotable or Shinkai, but then I got to the end where you mentioned you WANTED to talk about anime as well. I find that the importance and impact CGI in 2D anime had/has is overlooked for the ease of talking about how cool spider-verse is. Even something like Dragon Ball Fighterz is absolutely insane because of how it's able to perfectly disguise itself (99% of the time) as 2D. Now I REALLY want that follow up video lol

[jacobrodriguez]

I’d like to also mention a video game named guilty gear xrd that came out in 2014. It’s a completely 3D game that was entirely animated and rendered to look 2D. As far as I know it’s the first piece of media that pioneered the “animating on 2s” 3D style.

[ericfieldman]

Fun fact: Tron came out at such a time that they didn't have any kind of viewport to see what they were doing before rendering. It was all done with plotting on blueprints, plugging in numbers and hoping while they waited like a day to find out whether something got screwed up. Digital artists today stand on the shoulders of the giants with that kind of dedication and patience

[SarahTheAmbiguous]

What I hate about people saying "Oh this movie copied Spider-Verse" is because that argument implies that Spider-Verse owns the style (which is more like a medium than anything, ) which is such a non-argument I don't like entertaining it so I usually ignore what those people say

[artisticVulpes]

I personally always think of "The Amazing World of Gumball" when I think of hybrid animation that's trying to be very obvious that it is hybrid animation.

[sarraceniaporrot]

Part of my soul died when you said “not always” alongside Kubo and the Two Strings. It didn’t bomb if I pretend it didn’t bomb… it didn’t bomb in my perfect world. It didn’t lose of millions of dollars if I close my eyes and pretend…

Incredible video essay though, love to see it!

[kin]

The visual gag/reference when you bring up Katzenberg is hilarious

[doodleyd]

GOD you explained this way better than i ever could, thank you camwing. you are quickly becoming a creator that reminds me i should be working harder and trying wackier ideas

[space_]

How have you ANIMATED a video essay. This is insanity I respect the effort put into it.

[dileum]

The quality of this channel is insane.

[Wabit_]

0:20 jerma is the definition of hybrid animation, they gotta do a lot to give off the illusion that dudes real

[LegoDuploCamper]

I’m not done with the video yet, but the way you animate is perfect for documentaries/video essays. Give me a 14 hour video essay please

Edit: didn’t even skip the sponsorship. We love sponsorship horse