why are we shooting this on the hottest
day of the year ah
we have to do things it's been over four
years since the last edsword video was
uploaded to youtube
and in that time a lot of stuff has
changed behind the scenes
one thing has stayed the same though you
guys edsworld's audience today is as big
and as passionate as it ever was so it
was
super super important that we get this
first video
absolutely right
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my name is christopher bingham team
manager and producer for ed's world
although you might know me a little
better like this don't they know how
many monkeys i had to tape together to
make that monster
many and in this behind the scenes
feature i'm going to be talking about
the long
and winding road that got us to the
finished video
fan service 2.
time to get back to work matt hargreaves
director
edsworld yes why did it take four years
to make a new video
well now after the legacy episodes were
completed
most of the production team moved on the
guest animators who worked on episodes
like mirror mirror
lunatics and fun dead had done what they
pledged to do and most of them went on
to take
other far more glamorous jobs in the
animation industry
that meant before we could make more
ed's world we needed to find
new animators and that's harder than you
might think
i joined the team about a year and a
half ago and while the search for new
artists continued
i started building back up the social
media you know all those instagram
originals and stories and gifs we post
every week i organize and post those
with the help of a bunch of really
talented artists
most of whom were recruited from the fan
community
we had numerous setbacks not least of
all
three years of back taxes which
wiped out the entire production budget
which we'd been trying to work out there
were other ventures
for the profits of ed's world namely
setting up a holiday home to help those
who are going through cancer treatments
and everything that was set up by
sue gould ed's mother and the rest of
their family
which is going really well um in fact
some some links and details and
yeah information or the up
or the up they keep changing it then
there's a whole bunch of people where we
brought on animators
and then they dropped out there were a
lot of unforeseeable
problems that went on and this group of
people that we've got together now
are great and they work together really
well and they're really enthusiastic
and they're pretty talented but i
shouldn't tell them that because
otherwise you know
that's not big they're here yeah no we
don't want them to move on we want them
to stay here and work with us for a bit
they're
just good enough to work on ed's one and
that's it and that's it please
stay we need you what do you look for
what do we look for
what is looked for in an ed's world
animator
most people think that you have to be
able to exactly get the style to begin
with that wasn't necessarily true of all
the people is more um from my point of
view
it was the movement and the positioning
where it still feels
natural and for the most part there were
a lot of people who i saw putting in
um like submissions for animation
like seeing their showreels via either
the etworld movie project which we've
stolen a few animators from and
probably still a few i'd love to steal
more from i do
jump into yeah lots of different places
and check out people's work so
yeah the fang community's been really
instrumental in this right because
there's so
many people out there making stuff to do
with ed's world reanimating old episodes
working on the fan movie of various fan
series
it is actually kind of quite easy to
find
you know to see that there's a lot of
talent out there and to kind of get in
touch with people
from my point of view as well is i've
seen i studied animation
i watched ed from when he started doing
stick figure animation
on really basic software called the
complete animator which was like
gifs and other things sorry gifs that's
a great way to say it
an argument with that yeah gifs it's
getting gifs the creator says gif
that's what it is short for the word
graphic which is a hard g
g yes a draftic interface when i look at
different animators
it's about seeing where they are along
that scale some people are going wow
that's really about here and this is
about here
and you don't want them to be completely
finished because you want them to kind
of ease into styles you want to be able
to pick up
new techniques at the same time yeah
there's been quite a lot of back and
forth with the team we have
we have what four people potentially on
the team now
who are all at various levels of
experience
in animation we had john be the lead
animator on fan service too
because he was the kind of the most
up to spec in terms of the ed's world
style they use the discord as kind of
like a little
hangout session and they'll they'll
tweak each other's work and everything
um
which is really cool and it's uh it's
nice that we've got that kind of
uh really supportive group of people
that no one's
arguing about who gets to do what scene
and everything else like that everyone's
very constructive with their criticism
you're going to start getting involved
yeah
as well now yeah but mostly on cleanup
bits where i see something that needs
re reanimating or or tweaking that i'll
probably jump in on that one thing i
really wanted to kind of touch on
is the style is the ed's world like the
look and feel of ed's world because that
was a huge part of
working on fan surface 2 was getting
that style down
and it's like deceptively
simple right it's not it's there's a lot
there's a trick to it the trick is stop
caring
um and i mean that in the nicest way
like
getting it too perfect um
is the same reason that you don't finish
a full animation
ever ed was like do a couple lines and
then at some point you just have to go
that'll do and then you keep moving on
i've had to basically tell them it's too
it's too good
yeah it's too a lot too clean yeah a lot
of the feedback is sometimes like oh
it's
too much too fluid it's too good it's
too like
oh you know the animation's too good i
mean in the sense that there's too much
of it like
this it'll be like that'll be like
really fluid and flowing and really with
more like very subtlety and like little
bits and
yeah at the same time though there are a
lot of little details and this is you
know maybe this
you know you can say this for most
animated series
um and maybe some people are watching
aren't aware of this but
you you can get quite granular with the
what we call the style guide which is
something that we've been working on as
well we've been building a style guide
for ed's world at the same time that
you're telling your animators to like
not worry too much and be very fluid
you're also saying this specific shape
is wrong
but that's a mouth that we don't use yes
but the teeth are at the wrong slant
you know yeah but on top of that because
we're all
adding to the style guide actively like
the style guide isn't locked off at the
moment yeah
we're still adding bits in because so
many instances are coming up where you
go well
i haven't been able to explain why
that's wrong but that's a good example
of it so we'll take that in here
and when it's corrected we put the
positive version of it in it as well
so the style guide is getting so
expansive that if you really need a
reference it will be there the way i see
it
is this is this is like ed's
style in 2012 plus
a few years right add a few years of
experience
i had a few years of refinement and this
is that's what we're going for
the first script for fan service 2 was
actually written by jamie and matt
back in 2018 and an early animatic
was developed that same year but because
so much time had passed and we were
dealing with new animators we decided to
make a new animatic from scratch
matt and i recorded the lines here in my
office for any audio nerds out there we
used an
se electronics x1 running into my onyx
blackjack digital audio interface
neither of these are very expensive
pieces of equipment but they do the job
really well and i already use reason
studio to make music so i recorded into
that because it's what i'm used to
once we had edited the lines the new
first draft animatic was drawn by john
and it looked like this
then matt and i got together and spent a
few hours cutting and chopping this up
experimenting with pace and trying
different music choices
maybe instead of the shots like this
maybe it should be from the
perspective of the camera looking up at
him and then we
can like side transitions like they need
to kind of like fade yeah
yeah and crossfade on black yes yeah
but we need yeah it needs to be so much
happening we have some like really
one shot where it's like a spotlight and
there's two versions of them
this version of the animatic was much
closer to the finished product but we
did still end up changing the music
again
[Applause]
[Music]
my eyes
in the face why the face that's oh
no we've posted the full version of this
animatic over on our patreon for any
aspiring animators and or nerds to watch
if they're interested
then it started we entered the proper
animation phase
john didn't have access to adobe animate
at the time so he was waiting on a new
computer to arrive in the meantime
vincent blasted ahead with a first draft
of almost every shot
this is what it looked like as you can
see a lot of the dna is there
but some of the character models and the
movement needed to be reworked we also
and i'm deadly serious had a three-hour
meeting
about pen tool thickness the
end question mark once john was up and
running with his new kit
he started on the second draft breaking
down a lot of the shots and reanimating
them to make the characters look
more edsworldly matt would pop into the
discord and give feedback on new
versions every couple of days and as we
got closer to the finished video we
started having more intensive animation
meetings once a week by this point colin
had been added to the project as well
and other members of the team would
often join these calls
and just watch the screen and learn more
about the process themselves
it's like a proper collaborative
environment and that's always fun to see
oh we were so close
after principal animation was finished i
took john's exports back into final cut
and started making last minute
changes the amazing thing about
animation from my point of view
is if you need something changed
something tweaked you need the framing
to
to be slightly different or you need the
shot to be longer you could just ask the
animator i'm used to shooting
live-action film
where you get what you're given the
footage is
it it's set in stone and reshoots to
change something
are either incredibly expensive or
impossible there are several shots in
fan service too that i just needed
to be a little bit longer and it was an
easy job for john
or carlin to hop back into the file in
animate and just copy those frames by
the end of this process my timeline was
a mess
please do not judge me on this i am a
professional editor i promise you here
you can see the central layer is an
earlier draft
then i've replaced sections of it with
updated shots
below in a mix of blue and green is the
music and the sound effects
the last step was foley which is a fancy
word for recording sound effects i
brought on my friend david to help with
that most of the sounds you hear in the
short were recorded by him
in his underwear
and the result of all of this work is
fan service too
my eyes the first new ed's world video
in over four years i love it and i'm
incredibly proud of the team that put it
together from the looks of it
so are you your feedback has been so
positive so far
you guys were so excited to see a new
edwell video that it hit trending pages
around the world
and reached a million views in under two
days
i wrote like an a4 page
memo to the entire production team
saying
guys there's going to be so much hate
there are going to be loads of really
insulting comments
just ignore it just please just like
don't engage
step back don't worry about it just like
tweet the video out and then go outside
and have a nice weekend
guys and i'll we'll handle this i saw
two grumpy tweets that was it yeah
no not even angry just just but just
like yeah just like
just like no no no yeah that was it it
was
astounding we were all like embraced
like
i was so ready for so much
negative stuff and it just didn't
materialize it was that was
that was so nice it'll come oh yeah
yeah oh yeah now the real work begins
right for the edswell team
fan service 2 is like a proof of concept
we have
assembled our adventures we know we can
do it now
we have a great team of animators a
director a producer
everyone has the right equipment and
everybody understands the style
so we're already looking forward to the
next project and the next
and the next and we hope you'll stick
around to watch them
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