Tony White ~ 'Endangered Species'

[Gundameister93]

I love this video! I don't think we'll ever forget about 2D animation. I loved the part when Hayao Miyazaki appeared and picked up the pencil! He was wearing Haky's clothes and crossed the bridge where it lead to the bathhouse! And No Face was there! I love Miyazaki's work!

[theanimatedpencil]

I have your fist book, It was used in my school in Dallas, so happy I found your new book as a 2d flash animator and cartoonist I find your book inspiring, I also enjopyed your film, and as animater myself I can apprieciate your your work and know how much you put into it! thank you for sharing this with the world.

[SiriWesen]

I'm glad I bought your book. This movie is really touching and I feel so motivated by watching it. I hope I can get my arts teacher convinced to show this in her lesson, so we can discuss it after the final exams. x3 *feels motivated* As long as we have something to draw with, 2d animiation can't die.

[Scoonertuna]

Wow, this is a Greek tragedy. Though i am happy that 2D animation is still being used over sea's, but I still say: That 2D animation shouldn't die in the good old U.S.A!

[xinandmagiclife]

Hi,Mr Tony White.I'm learning your book right now.I like your book a lot. At the same time,I'm preparing my first short cartoon.I'm totally agreed that painting with a pencil is the most important thing.I prefer to draw more pictures at first.

[TonyWhiteAnimation]

Glad the book helped. You might be interested to know that I have a new one coming out in September, through Focal Press. Its called "Animator's Notebook". You might also like to know that we're in the last 24 hours of our Kickstarter appeal for a new 2D film trailer - "Bad Penguin" - that will hopefully lead to a movie. (Although time's running out if you want to pledge!) It will be done as an entirely non-profit venture to support traditional animation in the USA. Thanks for the comments! :)

[Jzz87]

Your book has really helped me to understand true animation

[Jzz87]

this is just amazing. What are you doing nowadays Tony??

[2Nicamos]

I cried with the video and smiled, it is a great film. Hope you keep doing animated work. I was touched. jeje hayao miyasaki in the final part was great XD Love his work. I´m just beginning into the animation world so you book is a great help for me.

[Lidve1337]

amazing!

i hope 2D never dies

[Sh3ikha]

That is so funny! I just literally got done saying " well Hayao Miyazaki still keeps with" and before I even finished the sentence there he was picking up the pencil. That was cute!

[greybrother0001]

Too much Walt Disney-worship, both in and outside the industry, is what landed animation in this situation in the first place. How I wish anyone at all had seen fit to try and provide him and Disney Studios with some proper competition back in the 30s-50s. If Warner Bros had decided- had had the Funding necessary to venture into feature animated films, and had been successful at it, things would be very different now.

Don Bluth put up a good fight, carrying the torch throughout the 90s, but...

[DreamSerumProd]

@doroterra uh no, he was referencing Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited away. He still uses the traditional style of animation: In example- cells that are hand drawn.

[falariem]

Great work, Tony. I've already bought the DVD, which I'll be checking out in due time.

[ToonBunker]

Hi tony. I am a 25 year old aspiring animator. I am currently reading you book Animation from pencil to pixel and it is helping me a great deal. I have only recently decided to become an animator after working as a graphic designer and web designer for a few years and I am loving the mixture of creative processes that it involves.

[youresotoughhh]

dear tony, I am currently reading your book.i just bought it yesterday and havent even put it down :) this is such a helpful read. and this film you made is awesome.

thank you also for being so down to earth... i really enjoy that especially.

[TheUnderscoreH]

Miyazaki ending was the way to do it though he did just recently did his last film

[ceitiosaurus]

What does that chines guy say at the end?

[emigre312]

Haha no the end is Miyazaki and the movie spirited away

[wolfah]

Nope, that's him as No Face from Spirited away. :/

[FuhQTube]

Tony: I like this video a lot and I appreciate what you have to say, but I think your jab at Ralph Bakshi at 4:45 is a little uncalled for. Not that I consider the bulk of his work to be animated brilliance, but prominent efforts to market animation to a more adult audience were long overdue. A more accurate depiction of the decline of animation quality would have focused on the deluge of limited TV animation from Hanna Barbera, Jay Ward, et al.

[TonyWhiteFilms]

I do actually applaud a more mature and imaginative use of animation, especially in the face of the predictable and formulaic approaches of corporate Hollywood. But let us not be fooled. Ralph Bakshi produced mediocrity with this and his other films. Fritz could have been a HUGE breakthrough moment for animation and yet he dropped the ball. Even the fabulous R. Crump (who's work 'Fritz' was based on) hated the film and dissociated himself with it! That's why I chose it. Tony. :^{)}=-

[FuhQTube]

That's a fairly common opinion about the Fritz film but I've never really understood what people think Bakshi 'should have' done, aside from maybe tweaking some of the pacing. In my opinion the film is quite faithful to the source material, therefore it's episodic and a little disjointed. As much as I like Crumb's work, he's widely known to be an egomaniac. I suspect his displeasure with the Fritz film stems from somebody having more success with one of his characters than he did.

[koshkatoverdrive]

@TonyWhiteFilms This might be quite far-fetched, but I think Ralph Bakshi is to animation what synthesizers were to the 80's New Wave: For better or worse, it made animation approachable to some. Sure, there are technical, narrative and conceptual flaws on Ralph's artwork, but he's the result of an era that tried to make animation more approachable to people that were not part of a big studio. Granted: Fritz the Cat is an eyesore but, oddly enough, it fed my interest in animation.

[TonyWhiteAnimation]

@FuhQTube I understand what you're saying but I needed an example of the 'decline' that all could identify with internationally. TV ads are very localized and very transitory. Yes, Bakshi films did (rightly) attempt to reach 'adult' audiences. Its just that he made them so badly that audiences were majorly turned off - as was R. Crumb too! This lack of resultant confidence of course spoiled it for the rest of us who also wanted to make 'adult-targeted' movies but couldn't raise the finance.

[Streusel95]

Its awsome!

And your book helped me a lot :)

[heimsboy]

Wonderful representation about animation. Animation is new and still young. I strongly believe that we are not extinct at all but hibernating.

[MatthiusMonkey]

love the film i hope that animaticus drawersawrs rise again as i am an aspiring animaticus drawersarus !, also i was wandering what the miyazaki animaticus is saying at the end as i cannot see the subtitles 'case of the youtube screening only thing

[Gredika]

Maybe he is saying "This Pencil is cream, creamy pencil! I like creamy pencils, they make me happy." ?? Maybe???

Animaticus Drawersarus, loving that name.

[Keor66]

I am reading your book , it is of great inspiration for me thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience.

[RocketCarProductions]

Awesome reading your book. I love all the references in your animation.

[natticus54]

oh cool!! i totally use this book in my Animation class!!

[3DDesignz]

This is SOO SAD BUT TRUE.... Thats why I do 3D, and not draw anymore.

[lamegozilla]

this is AMAZING

pencil is being succeeded from gens to gens...

[PCWWalser91]

8:09 Aww!

[JohnTheAnimatorGuy]

As a member of the Animaticus Drawersaurus herd since 1974, I congratulate you, Tony, on producing this brilliant animated short. I am doing what I can to keep a strain of the herd alive.

Gian (John) Celestri

[Nick4700]

Um... You say you got help from Roy E. Disney and that he provided his voice but i can't hear his distinct voice anywhere?

[TonyWhiteFilms]

Try listening to the voice of the ghost and the chuckle at the end. I would be sued if I lied. I also resent your insinuation that I did so!

Tony. >:^{(}=-

[Nick4700]

Just a question i was wondering sorry if i sounded doubtful love this video good job and congratulations on your career.

[reverseblade]

There's just something about 2D animation that has a 'realism' or 'breath of life' 3D cannot imitate. I hope to help keep the Animaticus herd from becoming extinct. =D

Thank you for making this. It has touched me and everyone I have shown it to.

[conoba]

That was wonderful.

Animation isn't dead. You just proved that.

[The80swasStraight]

This is so awesome Tony! Can't believe this got so rejected at festivals... Also the whole problem with execs now is so true!

[ColBarnaby]

Who Framed Roger Rabbit was created without the aid of computers. One hundred percent hand drawn goodness!

[psicoyote]

he is talking about the shadows

[PCWWalser91]

Indeed. Roger says, in his goofy voice, "Look! Real shadows!"

[PCWWalser91]

Speaking of which, I appreciate the higher quality in this video. It usually felt awkward when viewing it on my computer with the CD.

More importantly, I now appreciate the video itself a lot more. Having learned as much as I have, I now understand everything about it, as opposed to when I watched it when I had a fresh eye to animation knowledge.

[knutl123]

I love U

(and your book)

have a look at my great animations

and tellvme what U think about it.

Maybe we can produce a movie in teamwork.

all my love to you and your films.

[knutl123]

love it

and i read your book LOL

[MsGeek703]

Awesome...get this into theatres so that you can be in the running for the Academy Award for best animated short! We're pimping this at The Cartoon Geeks. Very well done.

[TonyWhiteFilms]

I've tried, with no success. It was even turned down my most animation festivals I've sent it too! I guess its just too in-joke, industry-focused to have a popular appeal. But it served its purpose with the book anyway!

Best wishes,

Tony. :^{)}=-

[33Keith33]

Beautiful! I especially loved the "Richard Williams/Chuck Jones" inspired Marleys' Ghost at 5:07.

[TonyWhiteAnimation]

Hi Keith.

You're the first person to have noted that reference! (Most people glaze over and think I've lost my mind at that point!) It is of course an homage to the wonderful Richard Williams' breakthrough film, "A Christmas Carol"... produced by Chuck Jones and winner of an Academy Award.

Thanks for the comment!

And thanks to everyone for their comments too!

Tony. :^{)}=-

[33Keith33]

I have many fond memories of this version of "A Christmas Carol" from my childhood. This particular scene scared me out of my wits. BTW. Last time I checked, the entire film (in many parts) is here on YouTube.

[patronise]

Wonderfully drawn and animated with beautiful music. Definately Disney biased, but still brilliant.

[vlasvlasvlas]

amazing!! thanks a lot, from a young animator in bsas, argentina.

[Random54]

thank you for this

[knutl123]

beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!

[someonemagical]

its nice, but it sounds like its saying that 'true quality animation' is the sole property of Disney. Is it meant to imply that Miyazaki is just picking up what Disney left behind? Becasue Studio Ghibli has always been on equal terms, if not better than Disney.

[zeekslider]

Very nice. I loved every second of it. Thank you for producing this!

[mikecupcake]

A lovely piece, thanks

[Kirb]

Just Great! Loved the Miyasaki cameo at the end. The true spirit of Disney still lives... in Ghibli.

[RyanWithTwoHeads]

Yep, just seen it Cartoon Brew as well, loved it, especially the part with Roger Rabbit. One strange thing here - why is the video for Welcome To The Jungle in the similar videos section?

[fabianfucci]

I like the making and quality of this short film very much, but the personification of Good and Evil is highly questionable to me. Every animation technique has its advantages and drawbacks, the trick is knowing when and how to use which.

[Springymajig]

Awesome awesome awesome!

[RZetlin]

It's the truth isn't it?

[NobleApple]

This was actually brilliant. Loved it. It may not reach a mainstream audience, but those who understand it will love it.

[rawfulralph]

Omnia mutantur, nihil interit.

[Taydar]

I just saw this on Cartoon Brew. It was wonderful. Thanks for making it.