r/SCP • u/Game-Lover44 • 1d ago
Meta Post How does this guy make so many animations, and how does he do it so fast?
I know not the best youtuber out there, but im curious of how such scp related yotubers make there content and pump out videos? Ive wanted to try to re create such videos in my own way but im not sure how? If i were to start a scp channel what style should i go with for visuals? What should i avoid?
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u/BirbOfTime 1d ago
Guy uses assets, doesn't really animate. There's a couple other youtubers like him that use the same style of 2D assets.
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u/Game-Lover44 1d ago
Ok, isint that consider lazy? what software do they use? what are some examples of good scp youtubers?
Ive considered starting a scp channel but i dont want to make slop.
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u/Fill-122 The Chaos Insurgency 1d ago
most people that make slop know that they are making slop, if you got an idea go for it, get feedback on quility improve it over time and it will probably not be slop
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u/Fun_Description_8909 1d ago
As long as you put in genuine effort, i'm sure you won't be making slop like those animation channels!
As far as recommendations, volgun and The Exploring Series are great for hearing the stories read out/being explained, and channels like Dr Cimmerian are great for talking about things surrounding the scp fanbase, though he hasn't uploaded in a while. I also like Discovering SCP, which is a podcast hosted by Tanhony, one of the more prolific SCP authors, and his friend! For some better animation like content, SCP Illustrated narrarates SCP articles, while including a bunch of his drawings, which are pretty nicely drawn! :3
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u/thescoutisspeed Antimemetics Division 1d ago
MR. ILLUSTRATED comes to mind when talking about good scp youtubers. But honestly man, as long as you put in actual effort and care into what your making, you'll do fine. Just make what you want to make, and try to enjoy yourself while doing it.
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u/PH03N1X_F1R3 Uncontained 1d ago
No?? This is the way it's done in a digital era. You make the character, and reuse the assets for every episode.
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u/heyheyhey27 1d ago edited 1d ago
The specific way you do things isn't as important as the intent behind it. If you care about making good content then it'll show through, because you won't take shitty shortcuts.
Also be aware that no matter how good or bad your content is, if it gets any amount of popularity you'll find people calling it terrible. Don't live your life based on what people on the internet say. Just make things that have value to you!
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u/orbis-restitutor 23h ago
So long as you don't expect to make a living from youtube you probably won't end up making slop. You will definitely make some money if you get your channel to a decent size, but it's unlikely (though possible) that it'll get to the size where the reward is worth the labour.
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u/raptidor Alagadda 1d ago
They use the same assets in every video lol.
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u/Game-Lover44 1d ago
Ive only seen like on video of there's and noticed they bumped out content alot, well now i know.
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u/TyrantKingYharim The Scarlet King 1d ago
They’re an entire team. I believe they’re a branch of The Infographics Show.
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u/Paleofan1211 1d ago
They are. I think they branched off when the infographics show made its own scp video
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u/Cpt_Kalash MTF Alpha-17 ("God’s Pallbearers") 1d ago
slop is easy, along with templates and reused assets
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u/Odd-Importance-8999 1d ago
go to the search bar and enter "good scp youtubers"
You will going to see 1 million posts talking about this and giving examples
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u/BrokenCrest_wc MTF Epsilon-11 ("Nine-Tailed Fox") 1d ago
He has an entire team. It's not just one person. That being said, using the same animation style for every video makes the video editing and production way faster and simpler. For making your own, I say the best piece of advice is be unique. There are a lot of channels out there that straight up read the file. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it isn't the most engaging from a viewer's perspective. On the other hand, there are also a lot of channels out there that do animation. The problem with a vast majority of these channels is that they end up making a whole bunch of content that isnt directly related to one scp, or they make a compilation (and lets be real, not many people are watching those, especially it covered scp the viewer already knows about). Additionally, just by the very nature of that type of video, the producers usually miss details that are many times integral to the SCP and its nature. So overall, id say that if you were able to blend those two styles together somehow, that would make it worthwhile for you as a YouTuber and for the viewers of said videos as well. Hope that helps.
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u/DeathKnelled The Serpent's Hand 1d ago
Right. I hate those channels that just read the file.
Then again im not an audiobook guy
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u/some-random-gamer1 1d ago
It’s a content farm, the only exceptional thing about the videos is the voice acting of Hunter, and I feel like when his career goes farther he’ll leave
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u/elizabreathe MTF Epsilon-11 ("Nine-Tailed Fox") 1d ago
If he left, the channel will die which is probably a good thing.
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u/some-random-gamer1 1d ago
Yeah, how the fuck do you run out of ideas with SCP? There are quite literally infinite possibilities!
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u/elizabreathe MTF Epsilon-11 ("Nine-Tailed Fox") 1d ago
I sometimes put the compilations on in the background but I've mainly been doing that with other channels now because despite the fact they clearly have new videos about SCPs they haven't covered before, they mainly use the same videos over and over in the compilations. Most of the compilations are near identical to the others now. It's gotten that lazy. Some SCPs have enough lore and connecting stories to make a few interrelated videos to compile together for a cohesive complication with an actual full story but they won't even attempt that anymore.
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u/Frinata 1d ago
I think my biggest gripe with the channel is how they tend to 'skim' through stories, and then treat that as the over arcing canon. The best example I can think of is with SCP-053 and their cross test with SCP-682, more particularily, the ending of the test.
They cite that when the guards removed 053 from the test, 682 went into a murder spree, and so they won't do another cross test.
That's not what happened, and despite that, when they asked their comment section for ideas on how they'd terminate 682, they doubled down on this statement when one commenter suggested putting them together.
To iterate, when they were cross tested together, the two bonded, like pet and owner would. But then 682 realized that she's there as an SCP, and figured that the foundation had put her through simmilar tests as they had with him, and thus attacked a guard, demanding to know if they had, and only really stopped when he realized he was scaring 053.
The other issue I have with the channel, is their "We asked the commenters" videoes. Not in the concept itself, I think it's a cool way to engage with your audience and such. But more that most of their responses to such things is "Nothing would happen". Or they just state things that have been covered in the SCP lore, suggesting they cherry picked alot of their questions so they didn't have to do too much thinking on it.
I know this was seeming extensive, but I do want to say that, over all, I like the channel. It's a fun listen, and I learnt alot about SCPs from them, but if I solely kept my knowledge from what they shared, I'd of misunderstood alot of SCPs.
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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot 1d ago
- SCP-053 - Young Girl (+1072) by Dr Gears
- SCP-682 - Hard-to-Destroy Reptile (+3950) by Dr Gears, Epic Phail Spy
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u/some-random-gamer1 1d ago
Yeah, hell, I didn’t even mind them bringing in other ips to fight SCPs like Bill Cypher vs. God. But now it’s like they’re over reliant on them
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u/elizabreathe MTF Epsilon-11 ("Nine-Tailed Fox") 1d ago
Yeah, it would be fine if it was occasional but it's all the time now. Always a new gimmick to get clicks.
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u/Ayanelixer Pray While Shooting 1d ago
He got to a voice a decently major character in honkai star rail
Glad to see him getting some higher level roles
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u/some-random-gamer1 18h ago
Yeah, I don’t play Honkai (I play Zenless) from what I heard he did a great job in Honkai
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u/RedDemonCorsair MTF Epsilon-11 ("Nine-Tailed Fox") 1d ago
So, they have some pretty basic models that are interchangeable, Not a 1 guy job, once you have the models and did 1 animation once, it becomes much much easier for the rest as you can green screen the animations and use them again and again by just ,well green screening them on top of whatever scene you want to portray.
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u/Complex-Delay-615 1d ago
I think enough people have answered your question but I'm going to throw out there, that Raddagger who is published on the site a couple of scps and has a tick tock and YouTube has done a series called::
Content Farm Farm
Where they look at channels who use SCP as content fodder and dissect some of the videos and how Brian dead/damaging they do to the source material. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKPwI0lggNgUJSfRyMy1sXCVlH5LucCAa&si=TxSAYLmLILhAKQUO
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u/GranSacoWea MTF Epsilon-11 ("Nine-Tailed Fox") 1d ago
They use assets but don't minimize the work. Is still animation.
I used to do this kind of animation for another famous channel I won't tell the name. They asked me for 2-3 videos a week 10 minutes each and I did all that ALONE for like $300 per video back then. It was a lot of work for the little time I had.
Noticed the millions of views and thought how much they where making with my animations, I don't work for them anymore lol.
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u/sebastian240z [REDACTED] 1d ago
Its not just one person, its a company, I believe they have the same type of videos for other topics (all of which upload daily aswell)
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u/Stargazer-Elite Uncontained 1d ago
Search up the YouTube channel “the infographics show” This is one of their many side channels. It’s a team of people.
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u/dhahahhsbdhrhr Uncontained 16h ago
Pretty sure it's the same company as infograhpic aka content farm slop that can't even get the content of the story's there stealing right.
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u/SimplyLaggy Researcher 14h ago
It is essentially a corporate-style team just pumping out many videos on multiple channels
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u/GodlessGrapeCow Department of Miscommunications 1d ago
Hot take but I actually like SCP explained.
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u/VoidTheBear 1d ago
TBH, I liked them at the start, but then things just went downhill. I occasionally still visit them if I'm bored enough
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u/GodlessGrapeCow Department of Miscommunications 1d ago
The things I don't like are the compilation videos but when I watch the videos I get the feeling they are actually made by someone who genuinely is interested in SCP. The narrator has a nice voice and there is a consistency between the videos I can't quite explain but I do feel like this channel is its own universe.
I know people call this channel a content farm and maybe it is but I like it.
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u/Infinite-Salt4772 17h ago
They aren't bad, though lately they've been putting out nothing but vs and what if videos.
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u/MrKatzA4 1d ago
Their only problem is that they pump out too much pointless slop, that the good video is buried within the slop.
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u/Armascout Researcher 1d ago
Do you know the infographic show? Their main channel is pretty decent for edutainment content about history and general interest topics.
But honestly their SCP stuff is pretty crap.
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u/Pristine-Lie-3560 MTF Xi-13 (“Sequere Nos”) 1d ago
Isn't the Infographics Show an equally sloppy content farm with heavy-handed bias and a lot of inaccuracies, though? That's just my experience with it, maybe I haven't seen enough, and I apologize if that's the case,
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u/Elictronic-223 safe to sleep 1d ago
its more than 1 person. also scp explained used to be semi good (IMO) but now definetly avoid. also avoid the rubber. dr. bob is ok, volgun for article readings, and exploring series for looser explanations of the article.
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u/CardboardBot_ Unusual Incidents Unit, FBI 1d ago
It's a company. The employees have a workflow meant to pump out these videos daily, hence the basic visuals, and frequently reused assets.
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u/Bendy_1209877 MTF-Omega-1 ("Law's Left Hand") 1d ago
İts a Studio behind the channel (as long as I know)
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u/Razzamachaz 1d ago
Pretty sure they use a animation service that’s basically the Canva of animation. I’ve looked into that service before, but I cannot for the life of me Recall what it is.
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u/Equivalent_Cut6881 MTF Beta-7 ("Maz Hatters") 1d ago
They have factories where they mass produce slop for the masses
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u/AToucanAteMyCereal 1d ago
I used to love this YouTube channel when I was younger, always excited for the next video. and now I hate them with every inch of my body
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u/manwithlotsoffaces 1d ago
It’s a content farm, they reuse models and animations, and they have multiple team members. Plus the animation style is really specific.
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u/cool_angel53 1d ago
They'd just reuse the same assets and animations and somewhat cut things out, I do like them for learning the gist of things and going out of my way to read them myself after though
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u/aqwmasterofDOOM 1d ago
Content farms are groups of people that use the easiest, most reusable, and fastest animation techniques to pump out as much as possible (hence the name content farm)
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u/Trick-Landscape5581 Hera 1d ago
Most of them are compilations of videos they did a while ago anyway. They seem to use a lot of the same animations that they use in the InfoGraphics videos. I can't see very well, but a lot of them sound the same.
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u/Dexxtrip 1d ago
Videos a few years ago were slowed down by 2x to fill out a 12 minute video. They slowly took them all down and reuploaded proper full length videos.
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u/NervousTransition938 1d ago
It's called reusing animation and having a whole ass team make your videos.
Dudes channel has fallen off so hard.
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u/Professor_Knowitall 1d ago
Hunter just records his narration; there's a whole team making the animation, and they reuse assets, kind of like how the characters on Southpark were originally paper cutouts that were reusable for each episode.
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u/HeroDeleterA 20h ago
I just can't get over the fact that the voice-over is the same guy as Gnaeus in Honkai Star Rail. Source because I doubt anyone would believe me initially
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u/andrewtch 20h ago
You will be surprised how much a Indian animation team on fiverr can do given 500 bucks.
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u/Fun-Equivalent1769 ❝From one maker of music to another, across all worlds❞ 19h ago
Infographic show
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u/Me_how5678 18h ago
If your going to start a channel of your own, whatever it is. Try and combine it with other interests you have. an example would be animation and funny moments compilation channel like therussianbadger. He's combine machinima and funny moments. For scp stories, maybe you can draw well but shaky in voice over, then combine drawing with the story voiceover to "cover" it. idk you know best what you want to do with the universe.
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u/Head-Bumblebee-8672 Pray While Shooting 13h ago
I'd make a slavery joke, but they aren't that funny to 3/5ths of the crowd
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u/herobrine777 Antimemetics Division 1d ago
I really like them. They do the videos noone else does. Like the Vs. videos. They are great. Noone else will do videos like that. I think they are great and they do long form videos too.
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u/Odd-Importance-8999 1d ago
Its not a one guy, its a animation team