Kapitel 60: Janky Fiddling

By the end of their survey, Alexander found the fated computer that birthed Creed Digital Ink.

The people in charge of the reorganizing had already moved it to a more appropriate position.

The computers, graphic tablets, keyboard, and etcetera are perfectly fitted to a kitted table. With the monitor on the far end and the keyboard and graphics table closer to where the animator would sit.

There is also extra space for sketching and other materials that would aid them in their drawing and trying to translate it into the computer monitor.

Aside from this tiled set-up, there are more specialized tables that would be setting up the background, soundtrack, editing, or all of the post-production for that matter.

Another specialized area is where the writers, designers, and storyboarders plan each project, whether it be short clips, an episode, or supplementary videos like ads and music videos.

Alexander set the entire place to be as efficient and conducive as how he thinks animation work should be.

Sadly, despite being adamant about animation and knowing the most notable cartoons and animated works of the next decades, he had no direct contact with it.

He did work for an animation studio once to do maintenance and that group was mostly doing their job in the basement.

Since those 7 people were able to make decent work in a cramped space, then his systematic and somewhat professional workstation should help a lot.

It also aided him that he found and read the perfect book explaining the animation workshop during some of his free time in school.

Sullivan also asked someone who worked for the current era's animation studio to correlate Alexander's new work model to an area of work.

As much Alexander wanted to credit himself with the designing of the place, that professional adviser takes the credit.

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"Alex, what is this place and what are these things?" When he sat down to inspect the Digital Ink, the curious Jennifer asked out from all of his moments of silence as he continued to stroll the place.

"Computers for animations. This should be an animation studio to sum it all up." Alexander said while inputting his password and checking out some of the applications he skimmed up on.

"This is quite different from how I imagined it to be." Jennifer took a chair and dragged it to see what he is doing. "I saw that video that Disney put out that explained how they made Snow White, this is too far from that."

"Well, those guys used all those celluloid, colorists, picture-taking, and stacking techniques. This box thing in front of you can do all that without the hassle and menial equipment." Alexander obliged with a showcase. "I had a lot of practice during school, so I'll show you simplified that process is."

Alexander simply drew a red colored stickman for demonstration. After drawing one from a clip, he moved on to the next clip, only that it has deviations in the positioning of its limbs.

As he clicked on new clips, a silhouette of his previous clips drawing was shown to serve as training wheels.

Using the rough pen and drawing tablet to directly translate into the monitor was the hard part, but the optional pointer and tracking options made it feasible.

By the end, his monitor showed twenty clips like how Powerpoint would show its slides.

After adjusting the clip timings, he simply clicked on the play option.

"Wow!" To Jennifer's surprise, the red stickman was doing Michael Jackson's shoddy moonwalk. "If you were planning to make it walk, you clearly failed."

"I'm not a professional alright. The people we are hiring have much more practice with that." Alexander could only grimace as he looked at his stickman being stuck in a perpetual replay like the future gifs.

It didn't make use of many advance embellishments like music, editing, and photoshop-esque blending of animation projects but it is still impressive for the time period.

It was janky work but it only took ten minutes to work on. Disney's and other traditional methods could have done it as well but in a longer timeframe, with a lot of equipment, and manpower.

That dozens of resources are the reason why animation is pricey and has a much more elusive threshold.

With this digitalization software, the threshold would be accessible to anyone willing. However, it is still incredibly pricey in the future because of the monthly subscription and overpriced functions.

In any case, Alexander had no worries about software pricing as Creed Digital Ink has 3 decades' worth of innovation made available to him for free, granted the expensive hardware, talent fees, and the binary headache that needs to be paired with it.

"Want to try it yourself?" He had to do some boyfriend responsibilities, so he moved from his seat and offered it to his girlfriend.

The girlfriend had her eyes shine from the offer and quickly fiddled with his work. She didn't do much but just added some accessories to his lone stickman.

The janky hair, janky face, and flower backdrops she added made some comedic effects when the products were played in a loop.

In any case, he hit a lot of birds with one stone. To play with the software while deepening his relationship with the girl. As for the other birds that were hit, it has something to do with the future services that the girl would give him.

Blurring his forcefulness from the events of last night and lessening her animosity towards him was conducive overall.

The rest of Saturday went on with Alexander gathering some helpers to fixate the software into the hardware.

Under his guidance and password mastery, the process was efficient and safe from outsiders tampering. The program's failsafe prevented some tricky people from tampering with the code and haphazard copying anyway, so his worries were unfounded.

By the end of the day, the entire floor was set up and Creed Animations was ready for its start, granted that the manpower would adapt to the high-tech upgrades to what they are used to after their training periods.

Overall, the Creeds has already used 25 million in funds to reach this level.

If all works out, they only need to worry about the people's salaries and other miscellaneous expenditures. Then, profits would depend on how much they can leverage their strengths.