Hello there, it's Sandy Allknock, and today I'm going to talk about getting started with colored pencils. And I'll start off with a little bit of eye candy, my Prismacolor, my Polychromos, and my Luminance pencils, which I store in these types of cases. I do that because the boxes are a little unwieldy, and I have knocked them over from time to time. When you drop a pencil on the ground, you can break the lead inside of it. So I find these cases to be a little easier for me. I'm going to flip through my swatch book, and what I have for each one of my brands of pencils starts off with a hex chart on white, and then on a couple colors that I color on regularly, a craft and a black. The black, you can't see the numbers after you start coloring the little colors in. So I print it onto a piece of acetate. You can take it to the coffee shop and have them do it for you if your printer doesn't do that. But then you can see all the numbers right through, and you don't have to write anything in, which is really helpful. Next up is my swatches. Now these I don't recommend anyone else do. I did this because I wanted to be able to put the colors beside whatever I'm coloring when I take pictures of it from my blog or for social media, and I haven't remembered to do that because I lost the book, but I did find the book again. So yay for that. Maybe that'll start again. And next up is my Polychromos. Same routine, print it on whatever it is you color on, whatever kind of paper, whatever color paper, because that's going to make a difference in what you see. Notice that mine are not colored really heavily. I color them really light. And there's a reason for that. I'm going to show you my technique when we get to that section of this video, because I don't really color heavily. I do have my hex charts, though, colored in with a really thick, heavy coverage of the color, because since I have that and I have the swatches, I have both as an option to see the color shown either way. So that is my swatch books. Next up, let's look at the pencils themselves. Prismacolor is the cheapest of the pencils, and they moved their production to Mexico, I guess in 2010, I hear, and their quality went down a bit. The pencils that I have, lots of them are still the ones that I had when I was in college. I've taken good care of them, but some of them, not this one, but some of them will not have the lead centered in the middle of the wood. And that might be why you have some problems sometimes with pencils breaking when you're sharpening them or the lead just not being centered once you get down to a certain level in the pencil. The colors, though, are my favorites. I like their color selection. There's a few colors that I can't live without. And I also like that you can read the numbers. Unlike this Polychromos. I can't read that for Jack. It's terrible. It's a tiny font with like gold letters in a color. And yeah, I just can't read it. So it's really hard for me. But another interesting thing is that these two pencils, all three of these pencils are approximately the same color. They're not exact. But look how different the body paint is on each one. So that's one reason why it's helpful to have some sort of a chart to swatch things out to be able to see what they look like. This is the Luminance pencil and they have natural wood on them. It's their beautiful pencils, but I can't read that silver writing on the natural wood. Same deal. And again, that color is supposed to be a purple and it looks more blue to me. So not always are these pencils going to have the same color on the outside as is on the inside. And that's just something for you to deal with as an artist, unfortunately. So I've made a chart in my six by 12 Stonehenge sketchbook and I'll talk about Stonehenge paper in a bit.  So let's talk about Prismacolor first. As I said, they're now made in Mexico. The color selection is 150. It's the biggest out of the three of these. And again, I like the colors the best in it. Maybe it's because Blue Violet was a color that I used in college for everything. I don't know, but I really love their pencil selection and their wax pencils. Polychromos made by Faber Castell and they're made in Germany. So get a little German flag in here. They are an oil based pencil. So there's a couple of differences that the wax versus oil make. The biggest one that artists talk about is blooming, that when you do stuff with Prismacolor pencils, they can bloom or any of the wax pencils. That depends on your technique. My technique, I've never had blooms in all of my life of coloring with them. Never had a problem with it. But I'll show you what I think is the reason why. And there are 120 of the Polychromos pencils. Luminance then just added some. And I am going to be adapting the Luminance hex chart at some point in the coming months. So stay tuned for a video here on YouTube about that. And when I do, I will put a link in the description of this video to the new Luminance chart. You don't have to rebuy it. It'll just be a free download if you've already purchased the chart. So if you want one just without those colors, you can get it now. Or you can wait. It's up to you. Again, you don't have to have my hex chart in order to be able to use these. Plenty of people use their pencils without my charts. And so there are supposed to be 100 colors now and they are wax based pencils. So let's look at my technique and I color with a really light hand. It's because I like to blend colors together using multiple layers of multiple colors. That means I want a really soft surface of paper like this Stonehenge. It's a drawing paper. It's not like anything really pressed hard and flat. It's got a really nice tooth to it. And the tooth is what gives me such joy. The tooth is what scrapes the pigment off of the pencil. So what you'll find is you'll get stronger color on a drawing paper like this with a texture than you will on something smoother like the Nina that we're going to see in just a minute. But it does take a really long time to do this.  If I were to try to do this perfectly, which these are not perfect, then it could take me hours to do just a little square. That is one of the reasons why I don't do massive colored pencil videos here on YouTube with lots of colored pencil backgrounds because they take forever to do with my technique. So the eraser that I just pulled out is called a kneaded eraser, K-N-E-A-D-E-D. And that's a really soft, gummy type of eraser. And I can twist it and pull it, and it basically is self-cleaning. Some of my kneaded erasers I've had since college. And you can just keep them soft by using them, and you can tap it onto this really soft surface and lift off just the slightest bit of color to help you get an even coat. And I use that a lot. So here I'm coloring on the Neenah itself, and Neenah is a cardstock used by crafters a lot. I use that in tons of my crafting. And you can get a much smoother texture on this with your initial pass of coloring. But one of the things you'll notice is that it's a lot harder to get rich color. I'm trying to use apples to apples pressure, both on the Stonehenge and the Neenah, to see what the difference is. And you can see the color is completely different. Stonehenge has a richer color, it's much darker, then Neenah is just much softer. And it's going to take you a lot more pressure. I have hands that are delicate, let's just say. I color and draw all the time, and I don't like taxing my hands that hard. Some of you have arthritis, and you may find hard pressure difficult to deal with. So the Stonehenge paper might be way better for you. You might get a lot more color for your effort. So now I'm going to show you a real quick, a couple of blending techniques that different people use. One is to just cover everything in white. And you can see it does smooth things out, but it kind of evens everything. It's just even across all of it. What I'm using right here though is a blending stump. And a blending stump is basically rolled paper. You can buy these or you can make them. They're much nicer when you buy them. I find I can't make ones as nice as the ones I can buy, and they're real cheap. And you can just go over whatever you've colored and blend it, just pushing the pigment around. It works better on Stonehenge, again, because that pigment is loose on the surface of the paper and can be moved. This is a stump sander. You can also use it as a pencil sharpener, and it's sometimes called a stump sharpener. It's basically a little piece of board with sandpaper on it. And you can rub it on there and it will sharpen it. It will also remove some of that color.  You can see that coloring over top of a color with white changes the color. And sometimes you'll want that. If you don't have that kind of a color in your collection, layer some white over it and you can make it into a more opaque pastel looking color. And if you just want to move the color and make it a little smoother, you can use a blending stump with no blending solution, especially on the softer papers. And then you can go back in afterward and add another layer of pigment to it. Add more colored pencil to increase your contrast. You can't do that over top of the white very well. You get a really weird, linear texture thing. It just, once you cover it with something where you've colored really hard on the surface, it makes it impenetrable to doing much with it in terms of good blending and anything that looks nice and smooth. Now for this black, this is black sketch paper from Stonehenge. And what I've done is color some white on one side so you can see the difference. Some pencils, this is not one of them, are opaque, which means the color will show up more on black. If you have a color that doesn't show up on black, you can put some white under it, so do an underpainting basically with white and color anything that you want to show up in that color. In order to know whether your pencil is opaque or not, you need to test it out. So that's where printing a chart on black paper is going to help so that you can actually know which colors are going to show up on their own and which ones need white underneath. Now, this is my technique for blending colors and it's the reason why I love color pencils so much and it does take a long time, but I love that I can get these really soft transitions from one color to another. And what I do is make a blend from left to right with one color and right to left with the other color, letting them overlap each other. That means many layers of color to keep intensifying the both colors that I'm using. And you can see that I get a soft blend in between the two. And I'll show you an example of how that applies in a little bit. This, however, is a technique a lot of people use.  I am not good at this when it comes to actually making a drawing this way. But people will take a very heavy, heavy pressure with their color pencils and then go over it with white and try to get the white to blend it or some kind of blending pencil and then go back over it with the other colors again, so I'm adding more of the purple and more of the red to try to get some kind of blend going. Now, I happen to be using a warm red here, which is not the brightest idea. You'd probably have more success with a cool red because there's a yellow content in that red pencil that is making the blue and the red and the yellow together turn into brown in the middle. If you've taken my any of my basics classes, any of my jumpstart classes, I talk about color theory, so that will explain it if you take one of those. However, I just don't find this technique very helpful for me, except in very minute circumstances or sometimes when I want a really nice, heavy, rich area in a particular drawing for something that I'm doing. So it's good to have a lot of techniques in your hat that you can pull out to use in different ways. But next, I'm going to show you some much quicker ways to color, not using my technique, but using mine, I guess, as an underpainting under color beneath everything, the better you do this stage of it, the better off your blending is going to be later. But I'm trying to make these two colors roughly go together, but I'm not really worrying about making anything perfect. I'm going to use blending solutions and I'll do two of them. Gamsol is one lots of people use. There's some brands of it that have a funky smell. So I started at the time that I had a smelly bottle of Gamsol. I started using baby oil and I found they both work about the same. So you can use either one. And what you do is take a little bit on your blending stump and apply it on top of your color. Now, I try to segregate my colors a little bit. So I'm using one end of my blending stump for the red and one for the purple. Being aware that I need to have some color blending in between. So I'm going to be making a weird mud color between these two. So I may need to do some cleaning of my blending stump in between. Just be aware of that when you're doing this, because you can easily transfer colors that you don't want onto the other ones. If you want to keep a color pure reserve one end of your blending stump for it or just buy a big pack of these, they're really cheap. And then you can have ones for all your different colors. And it works the same for all the different brands of pencils. It'll work the same with Gamsol and baby oil. They're both about the same. They're an oily product. One of the problems with this is that if you're trying to blend something from a color into white, you will end up in the white area with the greasy looking stain. You can use that to advantage sometimes if you're trying to do, you know, a cloud of dust or something, you might find that an oily stain looks good in the, you know, in a cloud of dust behind a motorcycle. You may also find that that's really distracting and horrible. Test it out before you do it. Test whatever colors you're going to do and how you're going to blend them from one end to the other on the paper that you're going to be doing it. One of the fabulous parts about using any of these blending solutions is you can go over them and layer them again. Remember, I said you can't do that if you're just coloring really heavily with a white pencil. You can still work on them if they have the Gamsol or the baby oil in them. They're reworkable and the color goes on even darker and even richer over top of an area that's been treated already with that blending solution. So this is a little sketch that I did of a bird and what I'm doing here is adding some purples to it. I'm adding purple and yellow. I'm using my luminance set and it's got a limited color selection, much more limited than the others. Remember, they have, you know, 150 and 120 colors and I'm only using the 72 set right here. So I'm blending colors and layering them and getting a really soft look to it because I'm using a very light. Very light pressure and in my color pencil jumpstart class, we do a whole lesson about pressure and how heavy your pressure should be for different effects and it's something really important to figure out for yourself what effects you need for the kind of artwork you do, what kind of effects you like. If you like a softer look or you like a heavier look, it's entirely up to you. Here, I'm layering on a flesh color on top of a yellow for the belly because I didn't like the color selection I had. So I wanted to match something else. I'm adding a yellow into some of the areas on the head and in some of those browns because I wanted something a little bit brighter. If I were working with some other types of techniques, I might not be able to get those really subtle effects. But now for his belly, I switched to using a blending stump and Gemsol because I wanted these feathers, these reddish kind of feathers to blend in a little bit better into his tummy. I'll use a little bit of the blending solution as well on the branch. And that gives me yet another texture in this drawing. So I have a nice variety across the whole piece. So when I'm all finished, I and sometimes throughout, I use my brush to knock off any of the excess pencil dust. And a lot of times when I'm doing a drawing where my hand is going to be laying on color, I put a piece of paper there so that I don't smush things around before I'm finished. And when I am done, I'll get out the can of Delacroix fixative by Sennelier. And you hold it, you know, I guess about a foot above the surface and give it a light coat, let it rest for an hour and then add another light coat. It's better to do several light coats than one heavy coat, but it's non yellowing and it'll help to keep it from smudging. I don't necessarily fix all of my greeting cards that I send, but I do with my finished art and my sketches. If you want more information on colored pencils, I have a whole page full of colored pencil basics videos on my blog. There's a link to that in the description down below. And if you're somebody who likes things a little more sequentially, you can take my colored pencil jumpstart class. And that one is one where you'll end up getting a lot of information about color theory, about techniques to apply the pencils and each lesson builds on each other. So it's not just a collection of my random YouTube videos. But they're actually meant as a class. And sometimes that's a little easier to learn from. All right, that's it for me today. Links to everything are in the doobly-doo down below. I will see you again very soon. Take care. Bye bye.


Alrighty, let's do this again. This is part two of the Q&A again same leisurely set up I got my questions here, and if you've never watched these Q&A's I will read through the questions Just in case you're only listening to them and then I will answer in you know, whatever fashion free form way That I've done before and if you haven't seen part one the link in description is there plus playlist of all my previous Q&A's and that's about it. They're completely new Hi, my name is JD and I do Q&A's like these and I do a bunch of stuff on the channel So that's the the beginning pitch check it out. I got animation analysis clips. I do acting analysis clips I do lectures I do feedback stuff news do a bunch of stuff So check it out if you like it, maybe you can subscribe so you don't miss any of those things It's a typical, you know like subscribe pitch at the beginning. That's what we all do for the algorithm So tie young man, that's the username as always Apologize for any type of crazy pronunciation. I will try to do my best This is a long text and is in new form. I will blend this in at the top But maybe I'll go back down. I don't I don't think you want to see my face anyway So this might fill out the whole screen here, but so let's start. Hey JD first of all happy new year to you and your Fam, thank you so much. Happy new year as well. This is now February here. This is Sunday, I got a time to pick up my little one. So at one point I'm gonna pause It's I gotta go get him here the Sunday craziness. So he says here. I got a question for you I guess this is a case-by-case kind of situation, but would I but would love to hear what you think, okay? I've been working as a 3d generalist past six months and had to leave my work due to personal reasons, okay? And now I am back in that job hunting mode. There aren't that many jobs around in my area Where is this area? I don't know. Hmm. Okay. And what's available is about two hours commute every day Which I'm not eager to do anymore totally understand that I've noticed many animator jobs being available remotely But they aren't usually for junior animators. I am guessing that if I was to work at a studio I'd be considered as being a junior because 3d generalist doesn't count as an animator Probably I'm not sure how that works, but I would I can see why that would be So my question is would it be possible to be employed as a junior animator while working remotely? Or have you seen anyone who is a junior working remotely first question and my first answer is I don't know It's my honest answer here. I Think in terms of what I'm seeing and hearing Through friends and Twitter and stuff like that and LinkedIn people getting jobs. I would say yes But I can't point to a specific post or something where I can tell you this company did it remotely with a junior Unfortunately, I don't know. I don't really see to me it's less of a Position problem Like a junior. I think the junior can totally be remote I think it's more of a problem if you're senior or supervisor at that level you it's probably more probable They're probably more probable that they're gonna ask you to be on site Because of the role that you have and people you have to interact with versus a junior So I don't think being a junior would mean that you can't be working remotely That would be my answer for that. But again, I can't pinpoint to a specific job posting or stuff But I would check my animation minutes. There are always jobs there at LinkedIn is always tons of jobs stuff like that And just keep your eye out on that. Sorry. It's not the best answer I assume that this is fairly rare because juniors would have to be supervised and work closely with intermediate senior level animators Again, I don't I don't know I mean if the if the company is set up to be remotely and you know, many companies have done full project TV shows and movies remotely To me again, I feel like supervisors are more likely to be on-site versus juniors But again, that might just be me. I Love to know what you think as much as I like doing animation and would like to continue on this career path But also I got to consider my option as I have a family to look after and so forth I completely understand my family as well Your wife to kids and dog the bunch of stuff to consider like the switching around is not as easy as It is if you're single not saying that it's easier to single person But I definitely have more things keeping me in place. So I am all for remote work Basically long story short, I'm not sure if I am of much help With this question. I think generally I think it's going to be okay Just based on what I'm remembering in terms of seeing Junior positions and where it says remote is okay. I mean some companies are still a hundred percent No, it has to be on-site or at least within the same city You know where it's where it's you might be able to do half and then you have to go into the company And then you go back home again but fully remote as in like you're working for the company different state or Or Canton or whatever country right or a different country even I don't know unfortunately Thai young man. I hope that was Somewhat, okay. I would I would just say keep an eye open on Mondays for dimension minutes. I'm not saying this is self-serving, but I do have job postings there So if you want to look at job postings and then check them out the company on LinkedIn and stuff You it might give you a better picture Rough doughnuts Hey JD. Happy new year. Happy new year to you. Can't wait for your new content Say I just started studying animation and I'm school awesome And even though I still have a lot of time to think this through I would love to hear your opinion on whether I should choose a career and feature or game animation I know that the simplest answer is to do what I love the most But there are some more factors at play that make it difficult for me to decide Okay, first of all, I love both and I would like to work for both Okay, I have some slight preference for feature animation because I think that nowadays they're using mocap way too much for games I am afraid that this takes much from the creativity and fun of handy animation in a way I guess so Um, I would actually before I continue reading Point this answer or or ask Harvey Newman Check out his channel since he's is in that field and he will be able to tell you more In my peripheral thing I see game stuff that is mocap and then I see game stuff that's keys. Um, but I don't know Generally percentage wise where it's leaning more really depends on the style and stuff. Um So I don't know But again, just in case I'm giving you a crappy answer for the rest of this Harvey Newman check out his channel he and ask him comment and ask him he will know The thing with me is that I'm European and financially It would be way better for me to get my first job in Europe rather in the states rather than in the states Yeah, okay I'm also European. So why not that could be a fun there I'm curious how the job search is there and the salary range and stuff But from my research, I find out that there are way more game companies in europe than animations Studios and I'm afraid that if I choose the feature path, I won't be able to easily find a job here Okay, it's a valid point. Now. Don't get me wrong. I am not pursuing animation for the money It's actually my dream job and I would do it I would do it even if it didn't pay at all clearly my reading skills on this weekend Not the best But it's really important to me to know which path will lead to higher chances of learning a job faster Okay It would mean the world to me if you could provide me with some guidance on this matter because you truly are One of the people in this industry who I trust the most That's very kind of you. I would question that faith in me Yeah But thank you Again, because I'm not I'm not super versed in game stuff. So you should not trust me Thanks in advance and sorry for the huge tech sets. Okay. I know that you don't have much free time That's okay too. This is why I'm doing it. I'm taking the time to answer these questions now If you are focusing on The path that leads to higher chance of learning a job faster as you're saying here then I would do what best You know available in your surrounding which sounds like it's games because the thing is I don't know how old you are But if this is your dream job, I'm going to sooner you want to do it for quite some time So you're going to have time to switch around So even let's say you have games and feature and you're slightly more in feature lands Mentally, but you start in games You're still going to learn a bunch in there your resume is going to grow the people you're going to you're going to meet there It's going to be great And then you can always switch later. You know while I mean it's going to be more work But as you work on weekends or something you can do your demo reel for feature animation I think nowadays it's it's not I always felt like back in the day it was harder to switch But maybe that's just I don't know maybe that's just my weird memory But I think I think you would be okay switching and if you want to go for a job quickly In terms of you know, then you have to look in terms of opportunities So if there are more game companies, it feels like your Availability in terms of job offers are going to be in that sector. So you might as well go there first since you like it anyway It's not going to be a waste or a horrible thing to choose And then while you work at the company, you can work slowly on the other reel Just in case you need to jump ship and go somewhere else. I think that will be That will be my recommendation. Again, this is very subjective. It's very Totally up to you But I think if you're liking both And you go into games first again the experience is going to be awesome You're going to learn a bunch because it's it's a completely different technical approach and incorporation of animation versus Like cinematics or feature animation type of stuff So I think if you do this and then you switch over to feature you're raising me like you have these two That's already great. So I don't know to me feels like go for games because that sounds like it's going to be easier in Europe And then go from there That's what I would say Rexel Durre Rexel Durre Rexel Durre, I don't know. Hi JD. Happy new year. Happy new year to you My questions are do you animate only using iK hands all the time? Or do you blend between iK fk if needed? If you do animate all using iK only Can you share some workflow on how to make it feel like fk? Thanks. You're very welcome. Um I would say iK hands all the time mainly because I learned fk at school and then when I started islanding was iK and then I got so used to iK Now I'm fully iK and I'm I'm I would say I'm lost but I'm definitely reluctant going into fk arms And hands and stuff unless it's something very specific where it's going to look better. It's going to be faster um But Yeah, I think the best thing would be and it's something on my list And I'm probably say this all the time and the and the clips never arrive But I do want to make a specific clip not just about iK fk, which I do want to do But like you said a couple tricks on how to make it feel like fk was a couple things you can do um One thing you can do is like you can roughly animate something in fk Even though it looks crappy like fk will give you really beautiful um arcs And then you can always constrain a helper object locator or geom whatever and then bake that out Or the emotion trailer you want to do and then you switch back to iK And then you constrain that iK to that helper object or track or trace that arc that either through the motion Trail or you drew and that gives you Like the nice look of that while it be still being fk if the iK if that makes sense so do something in um And actually that's something that I do frequently not in terms of iK fk switching But animating something and then baking that animation on a locator And then constrain that arm to that locator So that animation is locked while I do other things with the body to make sure that this doesn't get affected at all For anything else depending on the rig some rigs are great in terms of setup where you do chest stuff It's not going to change anything in the arms or hands, but not always so I do a lot of um animating Baking out on helper constraining and locking things. I only want to move a specific thing My dog is back there sleeping. Um, that's that's kind of my approach. So Yes, iK all the time At the same time to me. It feels like that's a liability Or something I should stop doing at least at least doing some practice shots with full fk And go back into this. I feel like it has limited myself in terms of Workflow and look But there's some things in iK there are pain That you will be a couple seconds in fk and again, they're helper ways, but it will never be as easy. So I don't know. I want to go back to this and and Through that I want to create a couple clips and demos and tutorials and put that on the channel So look out for that in the future Prexus prexus if you had never worked on any big studio Do you think you would have felt fulfilled quote unquote as an animator? That's a good question and that's something I can't answer because I have worked at a big studio Actually, I'm working on a second big studio now. Um, so I don't know I think probably at the beginning. No That's my honest answer. I would say probably no because I always wanted to work at the bigger studios not in terms of Like a big studio name prestige, but because of the project Projects that they worked on so being you know a child from the 70s and 80s and stuff for me star wars niana jones You know like all that stuff ghostbusters. It's it's just that's my surrounding in terms of like movie experience and Like the imprint It's a kid of all that stuff and that's you know, primarily done by ilm like ilm the ghostbusters 2 not 1 But like all those companies that are doing those awesome event movies that have you know Shaped my my upbringing in terms of movies and that's why That's why I really wanted to work at ilm amongst also other companies as well. But ilm was was that thing um Had that never worked out probably in the first couple years. I would have been definitely bummed I think because I wanted to work on a star wars movie. I wanted to work on something like sci-fi and actiony and things um But I think now as I'm older and somewhat wiser but also somewhat more relaxed um and where my my My shift and focus in terms of happiness and success has changed It's almost like I'm setting up a sentence and I'm finishing it but what I'm trying to say is that Now that I'm older. I think If it's if I want to do something it doesn't work out as like and whatever It's just it's it's a bummer, but it's not the end of the world. There's other stuff you can do Um, I just want to be able to pay my bills support my family and I love animating as a whole I think that's the big change like when I started it was always I want to work on that specific project. I remember that ilm early on like, oh, what's the next movie? I want to work on this and then as you work on a couple projects You get to know the people then it becomes more about the people Oh, I want to work now with this person because it's so much fun to work with them And then as I did more and more more whose ilm was so awesome in terms of The variety of things because you do creatures and vehicles and cameras and digital doubles and sets and props You just animate so much stuff in there that it really opened up my Horizon terms of how much fun animation can be because at school at the academy It was all cartoony stuff, but human bipeds. That's all that's all I did And I loved it but Through ilm it opened up the door to so many things you can animate where at this point now I just like animating anything and that's why I feel like the answer to this is that If I want to be somewhere it doesn't work out and I have to go somewhere else. I don't see it as Unfulfilled just it's a bummer. It's bummer that something doesn't work out or that you miss out on something But there's always going to be something else somewhere potentially, but at the end of the day The baseline is that I'm as long as I'm animating I feel happy. That's my current situation in terms of my you know, my age and situation all that stuff Just because I love animating. I love the process of animating and And anything animating anything be props and sets and stuff in the background and characters and creatures and cameras I love it all. So That's kind of a roundabout answer and I hope that makes sense All right, mahesh is asking. I am selected as a 3d animator in my digital studio But I have a doubt that okay to join that company because that is a small company Okay, so what I'm getting out of that sentence there Is that you're reluctant to get higher there to start? There was a small company and it sounds like you would prefer to work at a bigger company. It's almost like A continuation of what we talked about before we as in me talking. So what time is it? Okay, no time is going off soon 20 minutes. Uh, how long is this 18 minutes? Okay, I can keep going There's not I'm not sure how much I'm seeing there was a question because it's going to be such a subjective personal Situation and answer for you like you have to that you have to answer that for yourself. Are you Wanting to get hired because of The prestige aspect of what we talked about before Of the name friends of a company or the project or like I want to be associated with this because of the like I said like the the image that comes with it or Do you just like animating and you're seeing any job as an opportunity to learn new things Get better at your craft Make new connections and friendships and then move around as you know as your life continues I think that is something that's very personal and subjective and that's something you just have to You just have to decide on your own like I don't think It's always like I say it's not bad to start at a small company Some companies are better when they're small. There's more that you can do. There's maybe more ownership It's made more creativity the bigger the company the more corporate potentially and the less You know freedom you have in terms of creative choices and stuff like that But I also say it's solely fine to start at a small company while I started at the big company So it's like I'm not in that position to To say this in a way if that makes sense Again going back to what I said before at this point I just love animating So if it's a smaller company now in my position at my age It wouldn't it wouldn't bother me because of I don't care about the image or the prestige or What comes with the name I want to be at a company with a good group of people that do Cool creative work where I feel fulfilled As an animate in terms of the work that I do and how much fun I have there To me this is all independent from the name And everything that comes with that But probably also honestly because I have worked at a big company actually my second company My some mine, but the second company I work at now is also a big company. Maybe it's because I I have been part of big companies And maybe that's like the blase spoiled um You know view that I have like oh, it's fine to work at someone else because I did it I I worked at big companies. You mean like again, I feel like I'm not in the position to Say something smart When I read that sentence But I'll just give you my honest My honest impression and thoughts on that and I hope I hope it's It's helpful. I would just choose whatever makes you happy. This is a really standard answer But ultimately after all those years, that's what I would say Regardless of like company size Are you going to be happy there? And then not all the all the others like that goes around working somewhere It's the commute. Okay, if you go there for three hours to go to a company Your your uh, you know quality of life is going to Diminish after a while because you can't sustain such long commute So I know to me that there are many factors that go into choosing where you want to work It's very complicated and very subjective. I'm gonna leave it at that Sujoy suyoi suyoi patrannabish patrannabish. I hope that's that's how you pronounce it With shows like arcane Do you think the bar keeps getting high to get into the industry? If so, what would you suggest for people trying to break through? That's a good question and I would say in my very uneducated opinion point of view is that you can't At this point, I don't feel like you can Have arcane as a reference point of this is now the new standard A in terms of quality because they worked on it for a bunch of years And also budget like they must have had a bunch of money to do all that work The texture work all this for so many years. That's just not something that Every other company can do so to me. It's like yes, the bar has been raised But to me it's also an outlier because it's not like oh, this is like a new tool that came out that now everybody has That's the new bar and everybody, you know can easily access that and do kind of the same quality and look That's something very specific to arcane and while looking also awesome It's just to me. It's unrealistic that now every project can look like that just because of time and money so I don't the bar. Yes higher, but I don't think it's I don't think arcane brought up the bar in terms of Anything below that look in standard is is now crap and you can't get into industry if you don't have that look And stuff like that that makes sense. I don't like I know that's again very uneducated opinion there, but Animation is really good But I would say You have to look at a broad spectrum of of work different tv shows Especially tv show Like tv shows of lower budget, so there's not much you can do compared to movies so Arcane being a tv model is also a massive outlier in terms of quality But I would look at different tv shows CG I'm assuming you're going to talk about all CG here And then movies and kind of look at entry-level, entry-tip, stuff like that You know have a better view of What is being asked of you and other people as they want to enter the industry? Definitely now the bar is higher than a couple years ago like that for sure every year It gets tougher and tougher for sure But I wouldn't look at arcane As now the minimum bar for everybody else is that to me is unrealistic But I do love arcane though. It's pretty awesome It's not just pretty awesome. It's really awesome David's K That was a harsh K here My Ks are harsh Hey JD, do the 3d animators make their own sets and props? How important is it for an animator to know how to model props and sets for a demo reel? It's a good question Now do the 3d animators make their own sets and props? No And it depends So I would say I never made my own sets and props at ILM in terms of this is an asset that you will render But I I we have a library or we had a library. I had a library Where you can import certain sets and props effects and cards and Dynamics and stuff to populate a shot In in the viewport and animation to make it look better a more You know It's more attractive and like selling the shop for clients. It's not just the standard play blast But it's not like I made this problem someone did So if you are able to do this and you can provide that on top of being an awesome animator, I think that's great It was not something that was required But I'm sure other companies maybe they're smaller or even bigger where it's a bit more in a generous role You might have to do that So in terms of now for the second question in terms of you demo reels, it's not company related but demo reel wise There's so many models out there for free and also many many more paid I would look at those websites and see what you can get for free depending on your financial situation Or pick some that are that are um, you know that you have to pay for There's a great one that of course for getting right now.  It's constantly updated. It's really good And I really wish I remembered the name Embarrassing that I don't and I wish I could give that person a shout out right now But look in the description of the of this view of this view this clip here I'll put it in there. Um, so there's a bunch of stuff out there for free that you can use but I would personally Look for model and props for your demo reel and I say this all the time in in anything that I talk about especially my acting analysis and tips for animators is that sets and props give you characters context and something to play with Physically or just visually in terms of focus And to me it's more interesting because then that character lives in that world and reacts to what's going on in that world and uses that world Which in turn changes your general acting choices because if you just sit in the room and you shoot reference and it's empty You might resort Reverb back to that classic, you know, like w and like all those hand poses and gestures that are just kind of overused And if you want to build a reel You want to be as creative as possible and to me sets and props Just give you that extra level of ideas to play around with and if you want to work in movies and tv's You know like tv shows the characters live in an environment where there are sets and props so to me it's always You're gonna deal with sets and props eventually at work if that's the path you're choosing right And you might as well practice and work with that and have it on your reel so that when you send that to the company They can go No, your shot looks like a shot not like an exercise It's a shot for the character in the environment Like what we do and you seem production ready that you can you think about those things in terms of composition interaction stuff like that So that would be my answer. I'm always very very pro props and sets Giuseppe S. Hi JD and happy new year. Happy new year to you too Thank you so much for everything that you're doing on this channel. Awesome You're very welcome. That's very kind of you to say it's my pleasure Although every video that you upload is a course by itself Have a question more of a curiosity and because you have a major role in one of the biggest studios in the industry What it takes to become an animation executive producer Someone like john lasseter or anybody else that I don't know about what you do. What are the skills paths and etc Thank you so much and have a successful and healthy year. Thank you so much same for you And that's a quick answer. I don't know Um, I forgot that question and I remember I might have already answered that I don't know but, um What does it take to become an animation? I really don't know All I can say is uh when you are in that position of power don't abuse it That's all I'm going to say And uh, I don't know an executive producing animation. I don't know. I really don't know. I hate to just know nothing At the john snow of animators right now. Um, but you're gonna have to direct that question Somewhere else. Sorry dv underscore animates how to study and apply reference That's always that I mean that question comes up all the time. It's a wide range of um of uh subject exploration Again, I will link That that description is going to be long with lots of links. I did a couple clips about reference I'll link it there so you have more to look at And in terms of studying as a general answer It will depend on The style and what you're trying to achieve So if you're going for something photo real You can stick with reference, you know much more closely. I still wouldn't rotoscope reference and just leave it at that because there's a certain softness and floatiness and lightness when you just rotoscope is Even though it's exactly what you're shooting where you're filming It doesn't feel quite right. You're still gonna have to go in there We're like a 10 push in terms of some of the the timing and then like the the final polish and the kind of the That specialty in that in that shot now if you're doing That range and you go all the way to cartoony stuff. The reference will be in terms of many things. It could be idea finding um observing complicated bottom mechanics to apply Or taking your reference and then copying it and then stylizing the movement and the timing Or you shoot reference where you are already acting things out very exaggerated So it's it's easier to then take that into your animation Or you film whatever you want to do and then you do a time warp on your on your reference footage And exaggerated timing there and then you can bring that over But I think as a whole reference is there for me reference is there to study and and To figure out complicated motions and also to kind of get All the bad ideas out of your system and just try things out in terms of acting And a lot of times it'll be a copy paste from different takes into one big take of things you like But even then I don't remember There really just must be a handful of shots or maybe just one one hand I can count where I had the reference and I stuck with that reference till the very end. It's always going to evolve It's going to go involve involve, you know, when you ask friends for feedback or in dailies And it's it's always going to be a change and you can always start with reference Anime change things and shoot reference again Um for specific things bottom mechanics wise or details for fingers and and the face But to me it's just I wouldn't stick to reference only I think it's a good starting point and it's always helpful And I will I will I'm more in the camp of film reference or fine reference Start with that versus don't look at anything and start blindly Wish you can there's some things you you will have to because there's no reference around But you're always going to learn something. There's always something you get out of that reference Even if you only use five percent of it. There's always something worth exploring in terms of of reference um And that would be my hopefully Helpful answer again in the description with more of my I might I think I have a playlist of just reference stuff Priyanshu Sharma Priyanshu Sharma again. I hope that's correct. So I'm not with my accent Wanted to know if companies like Dreamworks Pixar take slash Pixar taking the nationals on h1b visa I do this sponsor because I'll be studying as an international student in a a u and later on would love to work for m ncs in my opt I don't want mnc's is opi is optional practical training. Um Again, this is one of those we're after say I don't know Anymore just because so much time has passed since I had my h1b, which was 18 years over 18 years on yes So I don't know are you you're gonna have to I would find people who just started foreigners and ask them if you can Through instagram twitter linked in whatever And ask them. I'm really not. I don't know anything anymore. Um I would hope That they still um hand out h1bs. I mean they they're still hiring international people. Um, but I don't know what that process is how long it takes and Uh, and what's going on in that in that environment of visas and and opts and all and so I apologize. I don't know So he waited a month to get an answer. Let's say I don't Kushai is a kushal kushal. I heard of all I heard of all again I am now working as a junior animator. Should I need to learn rigging for my animation career? Well depends. Um, yes and no Maybe you just want to animate forever and that's okay. Um, do you want to know more about the process? you can learn again It's an answer I can't give you just because it depends on what you want to do I think generally it's great if you know rigging as well If so if you get a rig and it doesn't work you can help out you can about the team You can do like a proxy rig for for your team until Maybe that's a junior but as you move on until the rigging team catches up I mean, there are many positives in terms of knowing more than just Your one thing that's animation. So could be rigging simulation stuff modeling Um, you know, whatever. I think I think it's good to know but I don't know rigging and there I say I've done okay with my animation career. So I would say it's not needed But it's definitely helpful The only caveat of course is that if you're doing animation It takes a long time to learn animation. It's a constant process to this day for me And if you're also doing rigging Now you're splitting your attention to groups for something else and that divided time, you know, are you going to be Just okay as an animator and just okay as a rigger or do you want to be an awesome animator? But then you're going to be an okay, like not so good rigger. It really depends on Your schedule how much time you have what your priorities are Um, so I would say it's not needed, but it's great. It's great if you know Kaito Lau is asking what would you advise on timing? Okay. I usually block my animation without paying attention to timing Okay, I don't Focusing mainly on posing and setting the keys very close together. Okay. Why not after that? I try to achieve the timing using sounds Definitely with that by making sound effects myself are trying to get sound bits, but it doesn't always work as well Do you have any other tips? I like that question because I'm kind of half no half. Yes um I'm sure if I have tips because it's very specific workflow to you all I can say is that um If it's not always working out like I would love to know what is not always working as well Like what specifically doesn't work and then if you can figure that one out, then I would look at well, let me fix that It's definitely okay to go It's always like you're doing stepped. I don't know what you're doing But sounds like stepped just with poses and you can even do on ones and you flip through To get your your main storytelling poses and then in your mind you're flipping through at a specific timing rate That has you know kind of the flow that you want the once you have that Then you can spread out the keys to kind of make that timing work And what you can do is if you scrub through it or frame through it and that's the right timing You can always screen capture your screen Maya, right? Um, and then play through it the way you think it is and that's going to be your new reference movie And then you can animate and space out the keys to match that um, I definitely use sounds all the time either Making sounds all the time and then animating and then animating sounds again and see if it matches Sometimes making sounds recording those sounds putting these into my import waveform And then have that timing as your guide as a beat sheet almost. I don't know. Um That's what I that's what I do. I definitely post things out In terms of timing where I post things out every Couple frames every four frames and I'm really messy with things But generally I like to think that I'm doing things like every four frames Major keys would also kind of break down so it kind of works Every four frames and then I move those keys around to make the timing really work And then I go layer it into root chest head arms and legs And then it's just keying whatever wherever to make it work um And the reason being is that I can I can make broader changes quickly if everything is key Like the whole character's key moment frame and all I have to do is move those those single keys in the timeline That to me is much easier than move things around Delete stuff put stuff back in or change things and then once it's in a better state Then I go into more detail work. Um, that would be my My approach that is the alarm We gotta pick up my little one. All right Well, also perfect timing since I just answered that question. This would be answer question 12 13 would be M I think I'm gonna leave it at that. It's 38 minutes. It's not as long as the other one But let's leave it at that and I'll do one instead of a couple weeks. I'll do the next one. Hopefully next week So I'm in a faster, um rhythm of answering these so I have 13 14 15 16 17 planned for today So they'll swap into the next one. I think I'm gonna have this part two I think there's going to be a part three and four. I don't think I can cram everything to part three So it's going to be three and four as well And that's it. So, yeah, that's the end of the q&a. Hopefully helpful Any other questions concerns confusions about what I just said comment and I'll I'll fold that back into The rest that might also be a part five or all those questions that came in in parts We'll get answered as well. We'll see how much there is Usually in those follow-up questions. I try to answer them in the comments and not add them to yet another part But that's it. So hopefully Yeah, hopefully that was okay. And maybe you haven't subscribed yet And you know, I'm gonna pitch this right subscribe so you won't miss any of my my silly clips It's the algorithm and growing the channel the usual thing that we all asked for on youtube And uh, my dog thankfully didn't do anything Usually he kind of wakes up and goes crazy All right, I gotta go. So thank you. I will upload this probably I don't know maybe Wednesday or thursday Maybe friday. It's a bit mixed. I have a bunch of stuff to do. So my schedule is a bit wonky right now Um, but it will come out next week Well, as you watch as it will be. But anyway, thank you for watching and uh, hopefully I'll see you in my next


This is stock number 9630 we are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin You're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters today. We are checking out this super clean 2016 Chevy Silverado 2500 crew cab short box Midnight edition this vehicle has the six liter v8 motor From this HD video you will be able to tell that this truck is extremely clean All the way around no dents or dings on that front bumper front sonar factory fog lights projector lamp headlamps We shoot all of our videos in 1080p So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on now because it's like you're right here Looking at the truck with me Front bumper and grille are an excellent shape Didn't see any dents or dings on that hood Passenger side fender is in nice shape as well This rim is an excellent condition. 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Hey friends today, we are hanging out at the D23 expo It is 7 a.m. And it doesn't officially open till 9 a.m. But we are going in to set up the Roosevelt's booth So I'm gonna be able to show you the expo floor pretty much all to ourselves And then we're gonna go to the opening ceremony and the Disney Legends award ceremony which is gonna be absolutely amazing and then browse around shop and just have a beautiful D23 kind of day any hoos Let's go do this All right, we have made it to the Roosevelt booth and we are starting to set up I'm so excited. Look at we have all the shirts on display here. It's gonna be really cool And we're actually located next to a really awesome spot This is the official D23 expo pin trading station and they actually have like little tables set up the pin trading They have a sign letting you know all the pin trading etiquette and It's gonna be a fun day It's gonna be really cool to show you guys a lot of the expo without tons of people in it Not only am I here with Roosevelt's like setting up the stand But Disney and National Geographic both invited me out to do some media coverage So we're gonna get some really interesting media opportunities and also I can't wait to hear all the announcements There's some big things in the rumor mill that they're gonna announce and we're gonna try to cover as much as possible And here it is the wonderful world of dreams Disney parks and experiences and we're gonna be able to see it before all the lines actually start forming Look at Walt statue right there. That is so cool I am so excited for this and seeing the silhouettes right here. Oh beautiful This honestly might be one of the most impressive exhibits I have ever seen look at this There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward opening new doors and doing new things Because we're curious. Look at this all the different parks and curiosity Keeps leading us down new paths Walt Disney This is absolutely I'm kind of getting chills. I'm getting really worked up actually. This is so beautiful. Holy moly Wow Here is a look at what Splash Mountain is gonna look like when they re-theme it and I have to say I love it This is so beautiful like wow look at all the detail I cannot wait to see this and also if you notice the glowing lights at the top of the hill there that's gonna be so interesting and then Also the new restaurant that they're gonna be doing Wow walking through the Disney parks and experience exhibit there was breathtaking That is so cool and we got to see so much We're definitely gonna go back and explore a little bit just a little sneak peek there And I'm also looking forward to the Disney Legends award ceremony We're gonna see some awesome Disney legends and that's gonna be in a little bit. So we've got a lot to get to It just keeps getting better and better right here is Walt Disney's archive presents step in time Disney a hundred a hundred years of wonder and just look at this big one hundred here They have so many historical Disney pieces in there I can't wait to show you guys that a little bit later on and I'm sure the queue is gonna be extremely long It looks like the first guests of the day are about to start heading in and I hear there's a lot of them And it's a very high energy environment. So I'm very excited All right, here it is. Here's the line of people First ones in hi friends. Wow. Look at this The line goes all the way down there and it actually wraps around There is so many people here right now, and this is just the beginning Look at this Goofy's just walking around on the expo floor That's the guy It is so awesome that you could just be walking around the expo and you never know what you're gonna see You know you mean you might see Goofy just walking around or a lot of other Disney youtubers because Everyone that is a Disney fan is probably at this event, and it's just so cool. Honestly, it's just the best All right now. I think we're just gonna go around and explore We're starting off here at the end of hall a and then making our way all the way down Just checking out all the boots and also if you guys didn't notice two familiar faces in the previous video I had my friends Disney Dan in the back and offhand Disney two great channels check them out But it was kind of cool We put them in there as like a little Easter egg to see if everyone noticed and I figured I'd tell you guys just in case You missed it There's a lot more to the expo than just things to buy and huge announcements a lot of people are dressing up in cosplay It's really cool. It's a great Disney community And we're gonna try to do a little bit of everything visit some boots check out some cosplayers Just kind of enjoy everything I Also ran into my favorite Disneyland foodies right here like you guys are my go-to whenever it comes to any The food at Disneyland. I absolutely love it magic journeys. You guys got to definitely check them out and Yeah, I mean hopefully I'll see you guys in the parks. I'll be around the next couple of days Yes, yeah, that's true. I know it's been so yeah the last time I was in Disneyland we actually got to do a special Seating for the mainstream electrical parade. How cool is that? It lives on? Oh, that was such a good time, but it was nice seeing you guys. I Feel like exhibit Halsey Actually has a lot more vendor boots of like smaller shops and more more tuned to like the Disney community itself I like a lot of the things that you have down here a lot of vintage things things that you know, I love Right here at the van eaten galleries They have a lot of cool Disney props that they're actually arching off right now You can see this really awesome snow white ride vehicle and we've actually seen one of these sold before We sat inside one of them at the league Lynn antique mall. It's really cool. They also have some cool signs They have a captain hook sign over there a critter country is undergoing some beautification Like a lot of cool props that I really really like I like this Walt Disney story over here.  That is so amazing. I mean, I don't think I can ever afford any of these things, but It is really really cool to look at them They've got some more park signs over here look at Disneyland Festival Japan Disneyland Circus Fantasy. Oh, this one's called the state fair 1987. I like this stuff. This is really really awesome Oh, are those the hitchhiking ghost over there? I Am about to show you guys the actual hitchhiking ghost from Walt Disney World They actually removed them out and they are up for auction now Isn't that crazy and they're here right now and we're gonna get up close and we're gonna get up close to them Wow, that is so cool Do they move it all they do Oh, we got to give them a minute We got to give them a minute to follow us home Oh, you can hear it this is so awesome Wow I'm pretty positive. That is the holy grail of any haunted mansion fan Hey, how are you? Oh my lord, and there's Kevin Feige right here. How awesome is that? So cool. I'm a big fan This is literally Kevin Feige just walking around it is absolutely amazing Coolest thing ever Holy moly guys, I don't even know what is happening in my life right now. I just got up and close with The hitchhiking ghost from the haunted mansion and then I ran into Kevin Feige like this is crazy I was like so starstruck I didn't even know what to say and I didn't want to just I keep on but he's just casually walking through D23 Expo and Man wow what a legend what this is like this might be one of the best days ever Now we got ourselves Yoda here too look at this Are you kidding me? That Yoda was so amazing and I heard someone say that it was cast from the original Yoda cast Which that's pretty remarkable the things that we have been seeing at the first day of the D23 Expo It's just mind-blowing They also have a pizza plated truck here. Look at this and you can actually get photos picking up pizzas Actually, I can go for some pizza. I'm a little bit hungry. I know they have some good food options They are a little bit better than San Diego Comic-Con. So maybe we'll explore around maybe get something to eat All right now it's time. We have to start making our way down to the D23 Expo opening ceremony and the legends award ceremony We're gonna see some awesome legends like the cast of frozen They're also gonna have some amazing people that are getting adducted into the Disney Legends that actually had a huge influence In the creation of Walt Disney World and they're actually all gonna be there. So lots of surprises. Oh Wow Morning. Yep. There is a lot of people in here. I Have seen so many cool things announced and I've always wanted to be here in person and today's the day Like this is gonna be so amazing we're to see some Disney Legends and then Sundays the big day So there's a lot to come but there are so many seats in here You never realize how big these panels actually are but there are thousands and thousands and thousands of seats Everywhere, it's pretty it's it's pretty intense and a little intimidating But you're going to shed a few happy tears and hold on to your hats folks for Broadway's very own Jimmy Michael James Scott. Okay, here we go. Let's do this It will be worth the wait back This is going to be our biggest most over-the-top D23 Expo ever More content previews more special guests and more news from the parks and maybe even some more surprises Now we've made sure that you have more to see and more to do than ever before and I can't wait for you all to Experience every moment of it because you are going to get a first look at some of the incredible new films and new series Coming from Disney Pixar our team and team and more first to hear about exciting new projects coming to our parks from around the world As well as some big news coming from Disney Cruise Line Of course, we're here today to meet our newest Disney Legends That the Avengers campus at Disney California venture is going deeper into the multiverse To do that we're going to be expanding Avengers campus and The heart of this new area will be a sensational new attraction Guess we'll be able to battle alongside superheroes and villains from anywhere and There might even be some of you that are even aware of who these villains are So those of you attending Josh DeMarls D23 presentation on Sunday will hear a lot more about this from him And along with Kevin Feige himself And I know you're gonna absolutely love what they've got to say So as a special treat each of you today in the audience will receive this exclusive amazing statue and Of note these will not be available anywhere else and we've only produced enough for people in this room It's such a gift. I don't in the studio and everyone singing. We just can't let it go The highest grossing animated movie of all time Music is truly the universal language for all of us ladies and gentlemen Makes no difference Who you are to our newest Disney Legends? Yes, please of the first one hundred years Their multi platinum hit number one on the billboard hot 100 for five weeks Live on stage the cast of Disney Animations Academy in Contour Hi guys. Thank you. That is so cool Only available to the people that were just in that room What a crazy awesome thing that I'm gonna cherish forever Okay, so I need to recap going to the D23 X-File opening ceremony and also the Disney Legends award ceremony And first of all I have to say I was an emotional wreck Like this was such a pinnacle life moment for me growing up I never thought I was ever gonna be even go able to go to like a Disney theme park Like I never thought that that was something I didn't get to go to Disney or I didn't get to leave the state of Pennsylvania until I was in my 20s and It was a big accomplishment for me to do that It was a huge accomplishment for me to go to Disney World and that is when I fell in love with Disney I felt important just by being in a place and let me tell you something being here and going to that exhibit It was amazing. It really made me feel like I was somebody important like this was a big life Like moment for me like I felt like it was just unbelievably amazing and they had so many amazing moments I mean they had announcements were getting an expansion of Avengers campus at California Adventure And then also hearing the Disney Legends just tell about how Disney Affected their life or how Disney actually played a major role on their life. It was so amazing the cast of Frozen That was awesome, and then blackish that was really cool. I just really loved it That was seriously so so amazing and I didn't put a lot of them actually like having their speeches because I mean Disney D23 live streamed it and I don't want to film during their speeches, but it was so amazing now We got to go and explore around we're gonna do some shopping There are just so many different little boots and stands that you kind of want to stop and look at everything They have some new Disney Dorables over here some exclusive ones for here, too There's this really awesome boot called Gary's collectibles that has a lot of vintage Disney memorabilia That's the stuff that I like the stuff that's old and you find in yard sales and basements and stuff like that That's the cool stuff Look at all of this cool awesome wonderful world of Disney memorabilia. There's so many different things I like this in the back here Some cool plushes some very old games a walk Disney Production presents the Rescuers board game I've never even I never even heard of a Rescuers board game right there And then they have a fantasy lamb pillow. That's a cool one. There's so many really. Oh, I love that Disney parade flag that one. Oh, there's so many things. I'm like a kid in a candy shop right now I see some old Kermit and Miss Piggy Dress up Muppet dolls over there The goofy piggy bank though is calling my name. Look at that right there.  I could ship it now. I'm starting to think I Also love how they have everything broken off by categories So they have a lot of orange bird memorabilia right here And then a little bit of a figment section here with some vintage figments some current figments too Like I know that's an old figment Of course, they got the popcorn bucket, but as you go around they have tons of different things look at the fox and the hound here. Oh Look at this. I wonder if they know JoJo can't pull the sword in the stone I should get him something from here because I think that would be funny. They got a little Peter Pan section right here. Oh Wow, look at this VHS copy of Legend of Sleepy Hollow. I kind of want to get that I need to get a V I need to get a VCR. I definitely need to buy a VCR. I'm sure I can get one at a thrift store though Oh my lord guys, I think I might be in big trouble because I just found a bin that's marked Disney parts collectibles And it's a lot of vintage stuff for sale Look at this a Tepanido menu $150 for a Tepanido menu. Oh That's one of my favorite restaurants in Epcot That's so cool that this stuff is here right now and there's a whole bunch of them Oh, what is this? Oh A Fort Wilderness. Oh, this looks really really awesome. Oh Wow, I wonder how much this is selling for $200 This is really really cool. Look you got the Country Bear Jamboree over here. This is an excellent piece right here I'm I might be inclined to actually buy this. I have to put this to the side here There's so many things I just keep looking at that. I'm like a pirate to the Caribbean hat What's this one? Oh Fulton's crab house. Look at that. That's the paddlefish right now. It's so cool Honestly, just look how cool this is these are all the different menus for Fort Wilderness Including this one right here, which is Chippendales Country Morning Jamboree and this is the one that caught my attention most But if you want to look down on this side, they actually have a really cool Gazette and it has the hootie-do musical review Crocket's tavern trails end and this is summer 1987 these are really awesome pieces and I definitely think I can frame them up And they would make a wonderful collection a wonderful little addition to my already Overflooded wall space They actually have them holding the Fort Wilderness stuff for me because I don't want to carry it around since we're going Around the Expo so I'm gonna pick it up Once we start to make our way out, but that's something cool I'm gonna ship it home too because I don't trust putting in the suitcase paper products They get wrinkled real fast or they can tear so I'll ship that one out, but that was a cool find. I'm happy I got something fun. I got something real actually I got a lot of things fun because I got that pin too I got the D23 pin that they only gave out during the legend ceremony, so that was really cool So I got a couple things This could take the whole weekend to actually explore everything they have to offer here at the Expo I mean it goes on and on and on and there's so many cool vendors and booths and just exhibits to look at even rocket Ralph is over here now. It's time to head on into the Pixar and animation panel This is where they're gonna announce upcoming Pixar movies and animation movies like Disney Studios And this is gonna be a big one a lot of people told me I don't want to miss it So I got my band and we're just waiting to get escorted in All right, here we go Got a cut through here somewhere Oh, it's so dark. It's like Halloween Horror Nights Unfortunately, this is all I'm allowed to show you guys once the show starts there's gonna be no recording of any kind and All the laptops have to get put away all the cameras and cell phones and they're real strict about it But we'll recap afterwards I Had to step outside so that I can recap from the Pixar and the Animation studio and it's so cool. I'm so pumped. They're doing a D Enchanted which is a sequel to Enchanted and that's something I'm looking forward to and then also the haunted mansion Like that is so I mean there were so many cool things I wish I was able to film but I'm sure you guys are reading about these already I mean, they're all over the news sites and like that, but I'm more looking forward to the parks all those announcements and Marvel and Marvel's tomorrow parts is Sunday. So Lots more like I said lots of cum Now I think it's time we start making our way back to the hotel the convention Well, the expo closes in I think two hours, but I mean honestly, I've been going non-stop I went to the parks last night and Made my video. I stayed up all night late and editing it and then I was back here at 7 a.m. And tonight we are going to a Roosevelt's after-party at Lopez and lefty's so this is gonna be a fun weekend and today's just the first day But look at that.  What a great first day to D23 expo. I Definitely need to get some coffee because like I said, I am still very very tired But I want to point out all the cool food offering They have a lot of stuff that's on the inside of the expo, but tons of food trucks as soon as you come out Look at this heaven and every bite fat boys Crazy, California. Why are all the names so fancy and cool and unique?  I might actually want to get something to eat from here. Let's gotta find Which one I like more.  I don't know why.  Everything smells so good So I decided to get something to eat at the meet-up barbecue and they have some really good selections Look at this. I got a classic chicken a p-town hot chicken and the farva burger Prime ground beef pulled pork swiss cheese cheddar cheese pickles fried jalapenos and garlic aioli And then they have a pulled pork sandwich that also looks good and Yeah, I have to get something I am definitely feeling a little bit hungry. I Ended up going with the fire a burger and this thing is massive. It did cost $25 though So I have high expectations, but I already am impressed by the french fries because I think they're crab fries They smell like crab fries and you guys know I'm all about the crab fries. So we'll give it a go We're gonna give it a little taste test Try in some of the local food here in Anaheim. Oh The french fries are good french fries are exactly what I thought they were Wow That is so good. I Did get this without that garlic aioli. I'm not about that life right now But it does have fried jalapeno, so it's gonna be a little bit spicy probably but lots of meat All right, here we go. We're going in here. Oh That's so good Definitely worth the twenty-some dollars. Oh, yeah, this is exactly what I need it That did the trick but I think I got seasoning all over my face now Yeah, thank you And with that I think we are done for our first day at the d23 expo What an amazing time though I mean there wasn't a lot that I can get done today because today was just the first day and I was kind of just Feeling out the atmosphere kind of figuring out where I needed to go and what I needed to do But all the panels were absolutely amazing It was really cool to be in there for the legend ceremony and then also I don't think I really touched base with the Pixar and animation Panel that I went to but that was So awesome. I mean a couple of the big highlights like I wasn't allowed to film in there But a couple of the big highlights that I thought were just so cool The haunted mansion they announced that Jamie Lee Curtis was gonna actually be playing Madame Leota and she was in a doom buggy and she like turned around and revealed herself And I thought that was so cool I was like holy bull and then also disenchanted. So they're doing the Basically a sequel to the enchanted movie, which was a really cool movie I thought it was actually really fun and then also a new lion king movie they're working with So there's a lot of cool things in the works and I'm excited to see a lot of that come to tuition I think it's gonna be amazing and Yeah, I mean Sunday is the big day for me though. Sunday is where all of the parks, you know The parks announcements come out and that's what I'm looking forward to probably most You know, I mean, I'm all here for the parks I mean, I like the movies and the TV shows and I like Marvel too, but I want to hear big news about the parks You know what I mean? And then also actually on Sunday after the parks I plan on doing a special what not auction if you guys follow me on the what not app I plan on doing an auction of some of the cool things that I picked up here for D 23 So some D 23 exclusive merchandise now. We did a what not auction Previously and it was to benefit give kids a world and we raised so much money Like it takes like I think it takes three to five days For the money to start coming in processing after the package gets delivered But like I am still shocked with how much we were able to raise like I didn't think we were able to send like one Family on a give kids a world village, but we're gonna send like five like it is pretty remarkable and Once it all gets finalized like I said, I think we're gonna submit the donation But we're gonna do another auction with basically like Disney like D 23 exclusive items and Yeah, I mean what a way what what a first day at the D 23 Expo And we still have two days now tomorrow. I don't know if I'm gonna film so much I know it's the Marvel panel and stuff like that, but I do plan on doing oogie boogie so maybe a little bit of the Expo itself and then maybe some oogie boogie and Sunday, I'm just going all in on the panels I mean I'm going all in on the Disney parks and experiences because that's gonna be like everything to me So I hope you guys enjoyed the video if you guys want to Follow me for the what not auction for all the D 23 exclusive merchandise I know we got some D 23 ears and a lot of other cool things Maybe some exclusive Roosevelt shirts like this Deadpool one. See how it says D23 exclusive, but we'll add it all in there I'll put a link in the description for you guys to check out my what not Page and if you guys signed up for it before you already know But it's actually a really fun time and we're gonna do it actually here in California So I'm very excited for that, but I'll put that link in the description and I Hope you guys enjoyed the video. I enjoyed making it. It's so amazing that I'm here right now at D 23. I am just so Happy so anyhoo Bye