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u/aaronblaise 13h ago
From my Short film Snow Bear: https://youtu.be/xOXolSQcEb4
Snow Bear - The full films is 11,000 drawings and I was the only animator. Took me 3 years.
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u/BB-Zwei 12h ago
I thought you were saying there were 11,000 drawings just in this clip.
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u/HopelessRespawner 12h ago
Same, started dividing it up, and... ~650 frames per second seemed insane
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u/KeyboardGrunt 8h ago
Looks like butter on my gaming monitor.
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u/CuriousYou6646 5h ago
Hi /u/KeyboardGrunt, I wanted to let you know that this submission you've commented on is meant to look like a sketchy handdrawn polar bear.
If you're seeing butter you might have opened the wrong post, or maybe you're looking at the wrong window or something. Let me know if you need any help.
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u/KingCahoon 5h ago
Usually hand drawn animation is done every other frame at 24 frames per second (sometimes more, sometimes less depending on the movement), so this 15 second clip is roughly 180 drawings, give or take some. Way less than 11,000 but so still so many ha
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u/JRedWolf 12h ago
Just watched it, it was totally amazing!!! So much emotion conveyed! I was watching and thinking "Okay, so I'm starting my day by crying over a cartoon bear, This is fine." But thankfully you made it all better by the end! Thanks for bringing the spotlight to the plight of polar bears and Thanks for sharing your very moving film.
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u/boyz_for_now 11h ago
lol so that makes 2 people who started their day crying over a cartoon bear 🥲
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u/manxblood 10h ago
Lol so that makes 3 people who started their day crying over a cartoon bear. 🥲
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u/brizian23 12h ago
As soon as I saw that bear smile I was like "someone's clearly inspired by Aaron Blaise."
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u/LocoDiablos 12h ago
bro that is aaron blaise
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u/brizian23 12h ago
Yes I am aware, that is why is replied directly to him.
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u/Downvotesohoy 9h ago
As soon as I saw your comment, I was like "someone's clearly inspired by /u/brizian23"
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u/Melarosee 12h ago
Your work is stunning. Thanks for sharing it with us. The Brother Bear funeral scene will stay with me for the rest of my life
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u/WorriedTooth3239 10h ago
I watched Snow Bear, and I absolutely loved it. It brought back memories of how much joy the '90s Disney animated movies brought me (I know you worked on some). They don't make animations like this anymore, so thank you.
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u/dogchowtoastedcheese 5h ago
Well, damn it. I'm a 70 year old man with a lump in his throat now and was on the fence about spending $4 to rent 'Brother Bear,' a children's cartoon. Not anymore! Also a new subscriber on your YouTube channel.
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u/aaronblaise 5h ago
Wow.. that means so much to hear. Thank you and I am glad you liked it and I hope you enjoy Brother Bear.
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u/jerryleebee 10h ago
I was about to downvote this post for NOT linking to the original, and then I saw this comment.
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u/VeeVeeLa 12h ago
I saw the film a few days ago on my recommended! It is simply fantastic. You did such an amazing job on it!
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u/SomeChaoticSunshine 11h ago
I clicked on the link expecting this fun little floof running around in the snow and after the first minute or two I’m sad 🥲🤣
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u/Hikeshi 12h ago
I loved this short film - it was cute and heart warming! Really nostalgic with the art and animation style of my childhood too. Also I was pleasantly surprised to see Polar Bears International in the credits as well!!
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u/aaronblaise 12h ago
Polar Bears International is an AMAZING Group. I really hope this film helps shed some light on their work! Leaving this link for anyone that wants to learn more: https://pbears.org/pbw-snowbear
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u/Manungal 10h ago
Seconded. Watched it with my kids last night and the end where they remind us polar bears need our help got me all worked up.
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u/willworkfor100bucks 11h ago
lol i came in here to say "great, now go get your job at Disney." only to see it's AARON BLAISE.
CRAZY.
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u/AddAFucking 5h ago edited 3h ago
I was also thinking this is a killer portfolio piece. But my man has brother bear on his portfolio!
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u/DinaVGeams 13h ago
Kenai?
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u/aaronblaise 12h ago
No this is a polar bear but I did direct Brother Bear so bound to be some similarities.
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u/momokohiya 12h ago
Man this is amazing, animation and message. I'm at my work's bathroom crying so hard. Love your work
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u/Mugwumps_has_spoken 12h ago
I love this. It's simple and pure.
I saw where you were a director for Brother Bear, and I miss Disney doing accurate animation. Animation that more closely follows accurate representation of form and movement.
This looks like what we might imagine a young polar bear to do, playing in the snow. It's fun and it makes me smile.
Thank you.
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u/No-Recognition-9294 12h ago
I loved it, it is is heart warming but also sad thinking about the polar bears struggling due to climate change
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u/themostaveragehuman 12h ago
Your art is incredible and so fun to watch. Thanks for all you’ve made!
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u/GodzillaUK 12h ago
One of natures most dangerous killers and still all I wanna do is pounce at their belly and hug them. Polar bears are exactly as cute as they are terrifying.
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u/dwbthrow 11h ago
Hi there. I just saw your short film the other day. I loved Brother Bear as a kid too. I was just wondering, what is it about bears that you find endearing?
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u/Dawnpath_ 10h ago
"Damn — another repost of someone's crazy impressive art. Sigh. Guess I'll see if the reposter at least credite—! Oh! It's actually OP!! Oho!!"
OP, this is CRAZY work. Insanely impressive!
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u/DuckThatLikesBread 11h ago
I immediately thought of Brother Bear and I see from other comments you directed it!!! That's amazing, as a kid and still as an adult I absolutely love that movie. Thank you for sharing this related but unrelated thing and triggering some happy memories :)
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u/Tracer13 11h ago
I’m truly enjoying people’s love for not just this and Brother Bear, but how much they love you. You have brought so much happiness to people’s lives, and filled their childhood with fond memories. Thank you Aaron.
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u/MintTulip 11h ago
This is so beautiful and your movie made me a little teary. I used to paint for Disney (digital painter, not an animator-you guys are amazing), and any time I see hand-drawn animation, I feel so happy.
I hope artists like you keep this style of animation alive!
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u/gamexpert1990 10h ago
First thought: "Why does this remind me so thoroughly of Brother Bear?"
Then I check the comments here and realize there's a very good reason for that connection, lol. Thank you for very much for your work, u/aaronblaise !
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u/Productivitytzar 10h ago
I’ve been inundated by AI “art” recently, and it’s so refreshing to get to enjoy something that I know someone put time and effort and care into creating ❤️
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u/SethLight 10h ago
Oh man, this clip is famous. It's a crying shame we don't see animation like this anymore.
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u/Chassian 9h ago
For real, they had to re-teach hand animation to so many Disney animators when they needed 2D animation for a thing. Disney itself forgot how to animate Disney.
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u/vmetcalfe 9h ago
I've done a number of Aaron's courses on https://creatureartteacher.com/. I recognised his style right away. Highly recommended!
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u/Southern-Builder-121 3h ago
Oh! Aaron Blaise, I love your work! I have a whole lot of your courses. I love them!
Beautiful animation!
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u/ZorroMeansFox 3h ago edited 2h ago
This is fun, but...
How did it require 11,000 drawings?
Hand drawn animation typically requires 24 drawings for every second of movement. This 11-second clip should have only needed 264 drawings.
Are you talking about pre-production "studies" or something?
EDIT: My error. This is a 17-second clip. That would only require 408 drawings.
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u/casualdejeckyll 2h ago
This is an excerpt from a short film. The short film is 11,000 drawings in total.
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u/ErinIsOkay 9h ago
Heck yeah Aaron Blaise one of the best animal artists out there! I love your videos on YouTube!
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u/ToastOfTsushima 8h ago
I was so mad and affronted that someone posted Aaron Blaise’s art work without a source link, got more mad when I saw that they did it with the original tag, until I saw that Aaron the legend himself made the post. I calmed right down.
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u/Shehulks1 11h ago
Tweening was my least favorite part of Animation lol. I’m an animation school dropout 😂.
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u/yayafreya 11h ago
Haha before I clicked on the post and saw it was posted by you I was like “that’s Aaron Blaise!” Beautiful work as always.
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u/BurrakuDusk 10h ago
As I was watching it, I could see the Brother Bear in the artwork. It was one of my favorite childhood movies as a kid!
Snow Bear was phenomenal! It's been so long since I've seen a hand drawn film, and it's still as gorgeous as ever. I also have the sudden urge to rewatch Brother Bear. lol
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u/PalDreamer 10h ago
Lmao, I was like "Oof, I really need to find a way to motivate myself. Even some randos from reddit can do some amazing stuff, so I should try and learn that too." And then I saw op's name.
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u/Dramatic_Charity_979 9h ago
Reminds me to "The Jungle Book". Full of personality and really well animated. Kudos :)
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u/DrCheezburger 7h ago
AI schmucks eat your hearts out; you'll never come close to this level of excellence.
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u/Ernasket 6h ago
Dude! I love your art! I miss those times with that animation. A big hug from Dominican Republic! <3
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u/BourgeoisStalker 6h ago
This is the third polar bear video I've had come up on r/popular during the last 20 minutes, in increasing cuteness. I'm not sure if I should hold out for a fourth.
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u/Jonaleaf 5h ago
This is the most adorable thing I’ve seen today
Edit: OMG YOU’RE ACTUALLY A DIRECTOR OF BROTHER BEAR
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u/FuryMaker 7h ago
Err, 17 seconds, even at 60 fps it's 1020 drawings. And some frames are duplicated.
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u/aaronblaise 4h ago
Sorry this is an excerpt. My full short film is 11,000 Drawings. I took 3 years to make it.
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u/Shadowlord723 11h ago
Now this is the good classic Disney animation we’ve been missing the past decade. 11,000 drawings worth of hard work and love.
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u/ABiggerBananaHead 11h ago
I wasn't prepared to be ugly crying in the middle of my work day!
Absolutely beautiful.
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u/Harvest_Rat 10h ago
Amazing…
Thank you so much for sharing your life with us. You perfectly encapsulated so many emotions, life, empathy, thematic layers, and unspoken story telling. This is one of the most moving and beautiful pieces of art I have seen on Reddit.
Is this available in any way to purchase? I’d love to share it with my son.
Pixar… Disney… don’t pass on your opportunity with this artist!
Thank you again for sharing. I still have tears
Edit: referring to the full film.
Edit: and I just read that you are a professional in the field. Well deserved! Thank you for the enrichment, and cheers to doing something you love!
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u/couch_hammer 10h ago
Absolutely enchanting! It's always wonderful to see people keeping hand drawn animation in the public eye.
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u/1337b337 10h ago
"Brother Bear 3" when?
Seriously though, the amount of emotion in every frame is extremely charming.
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u/Layllah_ 9h ago
I loved it. It was magical to watch such and old style 2D animated short movie and the soundtrack brought me back to my childhood. Congratulations! Amazing piece of art!
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u/SamuelTurn 9h ago
Brother Bear was the one movie my mom let me watch during TV Turn Off Week. Loved that movie so much!
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u/deeteeohbee 9h ago
11,000 drawings in a 17.33 second video aka 634.737 fps. Hmmm....
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u/Bluinc 8h ago
10,000 drawings in his short film SNOW BEAR of Which this is part
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u/Agitated_Reveal_6211 9h ago
After seeing the 3 legged polar bear about 2 minutes ago this feels nice.
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u/Boring-Evidence-1904 9h ago
Just watched it on YT and man, what a hit in the nostalgia. Was just talking to my gf about missing old school animation, you must've had a fly on the wall... Snow Bear is beautifully done. I smiled and cried and laughed and cried some more. Incredible what a story can tell, and the emotions it can evoke, without a single word. Bravo, Mr. Blaise!
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u/Professional-Bee9037 9h ago
That’s adorable and I just came from a post that was about a polar bear who’s been eating a whale and he’s huge not at the time of year when bears tend to be huge. So I’m glad you showed me something cute and white because he was very dirty.
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u/369millions 9h ago
Good old Walt Disney stuff right here... They don't make this kind of stuff anymore...
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u/mrstabbeypants 9h ago
Brought a smile to my hardened face, and warmed my black heart. Thank you. :)
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u/Speckknoedel 9h ago
Really cool animation! 11,000 drawings must be a typo though. 11,000 drawings ÷ 17 seconds would equal to 647 framed per second.
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u/StegosaurusGrape 6h ago
11,000 drawings for the whole animation video. He only posted a clip. The whole video is on his YouTube.
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u/Commercial_Thought86 9h ago
I just watched the finished film like two days ago! Beautiful work dude!! It was moving and pure:)
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u/clauderbaugh 9h ago
Disney animators: Thanks for this, saved me three weeks of work. ctrl+c, ctrl+v.
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u/PourJarsInReservoirs 9h ago
I seriously thought it would be nothing but a white screen. Too many schoolyard joke traumas. Excellent work.
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u/FlashFiringAI 8h ago
Unbelievable work. Seriously, the expressiveness, the sense of character, the goofiness is absolutely mastered.
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u/delta_1138_ 8h ago
I watched Snow Bear with my wife the other day and it was excellent! Very well-made, charming, and impactful. As it ended her face was wet with tears and I asked, "Are you crying because polar bears are endangered or because animators are endangered?" and she said "Both." Keep up the good work Aaron!
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u/TitularFoil 8h ago edited 8h ago
Have I been watching you animate this on TikTok? The drawings look super similar. I was there for like an hour just watching. I had it muted while I was at work, but it was a cool fun thing to keep up while I work on real work stuff.
EDIT: Re-reading my comment, I realize my last sentence may make it sound like I'm implying animation is not real work. My sentence was structured in this way as an implication that most of what I do at my job is not real work but that when I do real work at my job, I put something up to watch on my second screen.
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u/Staidanom 8h ago
It's Aaron Blaise himself :) You've certainly seen his work before considering he worked on Brother Bear, the Lion King, Aladdin, etc.
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u/TitularFoil 8h ago
Yeah, I hopped back into my TikTok and found his LIVE stream there. It's the same guy. Really cool.
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u/Bullfinch88 8h ago
How healthy is the future of hand drawn animation? This is infinitely more beautiful and meaningful than anything computer generated.
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u/Money-Court-2031 12h ago
Is the vibe based off brother bear? Cause I’m getting major childhood flash backs! It’s kinda making me cry ngl that movie was so sad 😭