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What’s Behind the Scenes? Creating Seek to Go (and Why Pretending Doesn’t Help) · A Capture Deep Vibs A Positive Space For Inspiration And Embracing Of Heart

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  Speaker 1: Hi, my name is Rosie and I'm one of the
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  Speaker 1: animators for Psych2Go. I've been working with Psych2Go for four
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  Speaker 1: to five years now and I've done this playlist on
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  Speaker 1: their channel. I thought I would take you along the
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  Speaker 1: process of what it takes to animate behind the scenes
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  Speaker 1: of a Psych2Go video. So in this video, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be talking about how I made, why so many
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  Speaker 1: of us pretend to be okay even when we're not.
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  Speaker 1: Every time I get a project, I get a script
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  Speaker 1: and a voiceover file. I take these two things and
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  Speaker 1: just whatever I want with it. The Psych2Go team really
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  Speaker 1: values creativity and so they just let me just create characters,
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  Speaker 1: animate them, and create a visual story for the videos
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  Speaker 1: you see on their channel. The first thing I usually
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  Speaker 1: do is create all my backgrounds. I try to vary
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  Speaker 1: my style of characters and backgrounds and everything throughout each
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  Speaker 1: video to keep things interesting but I am sometimes starting
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  Speaker 1: to side to a specific style. The visual theme for
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  Speaker 1: the video I chose was more of an under the
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  Speaker 1: water scene so I made a bunch of backgrounds and
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  Speaker 1: I did elements like corals, rocks, and seaweed. plants, underwater seedlings,
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  Speaker 1: and I just put them in a folder and then
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  Speaker 1: dragged and dropped them into various scenes and created a
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  Speaker 1: library of backgrounds to choose from. I think it's really
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  Speaker 1: important to just make subtle differences, even if it's not
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  Speaker 1: really noticeable, it actually adds a lot of depth and
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  Speaker 1: more interest to the video you're about to see. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I created my backgrounds in Procreate, I drew all of them,
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  Speaker 1: and then I put them into After Effects and played
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  Speaker 1: with lighting, and make things more beautiful and colorful. With Psych2Go,
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  Speaker 1: it's a remote process. I get to work on it
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  Speaker 1: whenever I want and here are some little vlogs of
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  Speaker 1: me working on Psych2Go videos at random places. Hello, hello!
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  Speaker 1: I'm currently in the car and I'm working on Psych2Go.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty tedious but it's really, really all fun work
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  Speaker 1: so I really enjoy. I'll probably keep you guys here
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  Speaker 1: and do a little time lapse and we'll work on
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  Speaker 1: it together. Nevermind, camera's not working. I'll show you some
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  Speaker 1: finals when it's done. This is what it's currently looking like.
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  Speaker 1: You can go like this, and you can go like wave, wave.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed the little mini vlogs throughout my
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  Speaker 1: time making this video. I actually love how I can
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  Speaker 1: just pop out my iPad wherever I am whenever and
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  Speaker 1: just start drawing on working on this video. So the
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  Speaker 1: very first thing I do after receiving the voiceover and
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  Speaker 1: the script is to make my characters. I think the
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  Speaker 1: character design is very very important because it shows a
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  Speaker 1: version of Psy. If you see Psych2Go' s channel, there's just
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  Speaker 1: so many different versions and characters, but it's still the
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  Speaker 1: same little guy with a leaf on top. But you
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  Speaker 1: can really do different variations of him. So every time
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  Speaker 1: before I start a video, I create character design sheets
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  Speaker 1: and create different expressions. Sometimes I would start with that
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  Speaker 1: character and then draw over them for each scene. It
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  Speaker 1: adds consistency and makes the character hopefully look a little
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  Speaker 1: bit the same. throughout the whole video. Next up is
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  Speaker 1: adding text. This video I incorporated some handwritten text but
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  Speaker 1: also typing out text. For handwritten text, I usually either
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  Speaker 1: draw it multiple times on Procreate but also sometimes I
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  Speaker 1: would do a recording of my drawing and then put
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  Speaker 1: it on a green screen and then key it out
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  Speaker 1: later so it looks like it's handwritten. Some ways I
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  Speaker 1: like to add text in my videos, I position them
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  Speaker 1: into the video. On the screen right now is just
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  Speaker 1: some examples of ways I put text and the process
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  Speaker 1: of me doing it. Next up is frame by frame animation.
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  Speaker 1: This process is very very tedious. It is literally drawing
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  Speaker 1: the same thing and draw frame by frame. Even though
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  Speaker 1: it's the most tedious, it's honestly my favorite part about
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  Speaker 1: working on these videos. It is a very therapeutic process
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  Speaker 1: to me and just very time consuming but very rewarding
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  Speaker 1: when you see everything in action. In a time lapse,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it doesn't really show much but then when you
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  Speaker 1: put it all together you're like, ah he's waving or
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  Speaker 1: he's lifting his arm. Very subtle movements but I think
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  Speaker 1: it adds life to these characters. Sometimes it's If they're
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  Speaker 1: too static, adding a little movement, even though sometimes it's
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  Speaker 1: very subtle, but then you add it like a couple
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  Speaker 1: hours to the workload, it is very impactful, I think,
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  Speaker 1: in the long run. I think with animation, it's all
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  Speaker 1: these like small details that build up to make a
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  Speaker 1: really nice whole cohesive and storytelling full. Storytelling full? It
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  Speaker 1: makes a very good story. Visual. Visual story. The next
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  Speaker 1: part I wanted to show you is when I build
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  Speaker 1: more complicated scenes. I don't think all my scenes reached
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  Speaker 1: level of complication-ness? Complicatedness I want. But with the time
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  Speaker 1: crunch and trying to produce work, I do space them out.
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  Speaker 1: I try to complicate it and then complicate it and
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  Speaker 1: like try to do different so it's not the first
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  Speaker 1: three minutes of the video so complicated and then the
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  Speaker 1: other ones are so plain. And when I'm doing a
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  Speaker 1: scene like this, I usually start out with the background
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  Speaker 1: and then layer on the outline of the characters and
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  Speaker 1: add elements and lighting. And these are just some buildups.
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  Speaker 1: When I'm drawing these scenes, it is Very fun, very
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  Speaker 1: very fun. Along with like the main white little Psych2Go
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  Speaker 1: character with the leaf, I also had some side characters.
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  Speaker 1: Because it was an underwater theme, I added two little
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  Speaker 1: guys who are audience members trying to represent you guys
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  Speaker 1: watching the scene. So I added the snorkel buddies and
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  Speaker 1: then I also did some variations of them. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: these are my little side characters. Hopefully they add more
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  Speaker 1: people population to the story. Mini world, super mini world
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  Speaker 1: that I'm creating. for this video. Next up is really
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  Speaker 1: subtle but the little bubbles you see on the screen.
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  Speaker 1: This one I made four different kinds of bubbles and
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  Speaker 1: just varied them in size and in speed throughout the video.
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  Speaker 1: Very small detail but I think it adds more elements
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  Speaker 1: to this underwater world. And then in the next clip
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna see me layering the different elements that I've
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  Speaker 1: put together. I do my layering in Final Cut Pro.
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  Speaker 1: I think I tried to do them in After Effects
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  Speaker 1: but then the file just got really complicated and yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Final Cut Pro just lets me drag a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: layers throughout the whole thing. It's easy to layer on
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  Speaker 1: and even though the keyframing isn't as exact, it still works.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully it is. Last but not least is the text.
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  Speaker 1: I've done some handwritten fonts throughout the video but with
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  Speaker 1: the typed out text, I usually do it at the
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  Speaker 1: very end. I usually just compile my art, everything I've done,
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  Speaker 1: and then take my script and my editing file and
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  Speaker 1: just type away. Sometimes I copy and paste, but there's
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  Speaker 1: sometimes the wording kind of switches because I think Amanda,
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  Speaker 1: our voiceover girl who you all love, me too, and literally, like,
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  Speaker 1: I listen to her so much because I'm always working
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  Speaker 1: on this, but I, like, never get bored of it,
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  Speaker 1: and I love it. But anyway, she sometimes, like, switches
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  Speaker 1: it just to make the words flow better, or I
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  Speaker 1: love her for that, but sometimes that means a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more time shifting stuff and typing it instead of
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  Speaker 1: just copy and pasting. I try not to put too
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  Speaker 1: much text on the screen because I think that's a
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  Speaker 1: little hard to read sometimes. I try to keep the
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  Speaker 1: text pretty even and short throughout the video. That's when
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  Speaker 1: I'm adding text throughout the video. I hope you enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: a little sneak peek of what goes on behind all
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  Speaker 1: the videos you see on our channel. If you have
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  Speaker 1: any comments or suggestions or things you want to see,
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  Speaker 1: Please let us know. We'll try to make them happen together.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to follow me on my social medias,
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  Speaker 1: this is my accounts. Yes, my art accounts. Hope you
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  Speaker 1: guys like this one and please go watch all our
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  Speaker 1: videos that we worked really, really hard on. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much and I'll see you guys in the next one.
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  Speaker 1: Bye bye.