The Tom & Jerry one is accurate because they apparently employed a classically trained pianist to play it for them so that they could get the animation 100% correct. Dedication to their art!

the coraline one makes sense because it fits the narrative of everything being all nice and appealing on the surface but somethings not quite right underneath

To be fair, just drawing the instruments is a pain in the ass and in most cases animators don't get enough time and money to learn how to animate them correctly.

Imagine if someone was meant to animate a classical piece, but he actually animates a rick roll, so when someone makes a video on that scene, he gets rick rolled.

“Instruments are NEVER animated correctly…” We all know this was true before clicking the video But then there’s also tom and jerry…

This is why, as a pianist, I love Your Lie in April. Literally everything is animated correctly and it’s beautiful

Thanks for the compliments on my hands xD

As an animator myself, I can tell you, 90% of the time it boils down to time and money. The other thing is that on television productions at least, animators often don't even have the final music to animate to. We often work with temporary music, and the final music tracks will be added in post production.

"why not just get it right?" I feel the same way about everything medical in movies/TV. It isn't that hard to hire a medical professional to advise the writers on proper technique and language and then to coach the actors through it on set. From laboring women screaming uncontrollably while pushing (if you are screaming like that you're not pushing effectively and women don't scream from the first contraction) to people waking up during CPR completely alert and oriented. If your heart stops or you don't breath for a period of time, you don't wake up suddenly alert and chatting. Most people need to be intubated on a vent for a period od time and require medications to stabilize their bp and heart rate - they don't wake up in the field. The most basic one is the EKG strip that shows a fatal heart beat. I see them used on TV news shows as the intro to a medical story, coffee cups, T shirts etc. A friend got a tattoo of a heart beat after surviving a heart attack and the rhythm is one he better pray he never has. With the interent it isn't that hard to find an example of a perfect heart beat. We all learn it in med/nursing school.

As a drummer, I HATE it when I see animated drums and they aren’t playing them right. Finally someone sees my pain.

8:59 - AHHHH, THE NOSTALGIA!!!! 🕺🏼👏🏻🤭✨

As a representative of the talentless community, I can say that the animated part is our expectation, but the wrong playing is definitely our reality

Animation is very hard especially with instruments because they are so complex. The animators need to be paid more if they need to study how instruments work and all the notes that need to be pressed (including proper form with a display of dynamics et cetera).

I'm animator and I know answer why instruments are never animated correctly, there is a principle of animation called solid drawing, so animators always will try to creat the best possible pose even it means to animate characters playing any instrument wrong, you know, like, hand pose, arms at the best position to audience have the best understand of the pose and last thing maybe animator doesn't have any reference to follow, I mean real footage to copy in the animation (it happens a lot)

Someone probably already said this, but Pixar usually animates the playing of instruments correctly. For Coco they actually got the close up shots of Miguel playing the guitar right. 😃😄😊

For the movie Soul they used Jon Batiste's hand motions and he's the one really playing, there's great extras on D+ showing them recording him.

Strangely, trombones should be the easiest brass instrument to draw, it's literally one tube with two bends. Yet the Family Guy manages to make it super complicated. The mouthpiece somehow bends around behind his ear!

10:17 damn thats some of the coolest sounding trumpet solo ive ever heard :)

If it were _any other gimmick,_ I'd be bored of it within a week, but I like these videos because I enjoy learning the little intricacies for each instrument they show.

Shoutering in name of animators (myself and colleagues watching this), it's sometimes not a choice from animators to make it wrong or right, it just depends on time you have to animate it, what director wants to transmit and the money involved. There's animators who know how to play piano, drums and other instruments (like myself) who always try to explain to non musician diretors what notes should be played and bla bla bla, but they don't even care sometimes they just prefer to see the character face doing something or whatever... anyway, nice vid! Got some laughs here

5:23 Soul is probably the most musically accurate. Even the TROMBONES are animated right.

1:51 Elton John on crack

Loved it when August popped up laughing at the beginning. Joel should keep making videos with August and Jonas :)

The parts of what it really sounds like fits some of the scenes better in these animated shows. By the way, the boy in the kitchen can slap bass.😁

You know in the cartoons the character would play the instrument and someone would be irritated? I'm wondering if this is why... They could hear the actual music 😸

Joel, please save the past broadcasts on Twitch, so people who weren't there live could see them. Thanks!

7:09 we did that "Ting-Ting " or whatever together bro . Lol that was fun

KyoAni does one of the best instrument animations. Especially the series "Hibike! Euphonium". It's a full orchestra/marching band but! The details they put to animating every instrument always gives me goosebumps

We need a bollywood version of this! So many actors playing fake ass instruments ! it would be so cool!

Joel isn't a foot guy...but maybe he's a hand guy? 😆

9:04 I caught flashbacks here too! I've watched it as well as a kid, some part of my memory unlocked!!

9:31 as a musician myself, I love the shreds videos, I was laughing my hardest, apparently, KZfaq was so harsh to people that made those going as far as blocking their channels

Joel is the king of buying expensive chairs and never using them

When most of the classical pieces you've heard was from Tom and Jerry...

You know, it would’ve been funny if the animated artist made it specific to a piece of music on the piano, but they actually did the animation to play never gonna give you up, but did a different songs that when somebody debunked it, they would just play never gonna give you up to themself

To be honest, all wrong versions played sounds perfectly ironically right. Take as example the 5:27 one, for example. It's exactly what a baby thinking he is cool af would sound like. Also everything in the simpsons

Great video, guys! It's awesome when the animators pay attention to detail so much that the playing is right, BUT no one - except for musicians and/or people who play that instrument - will notice if it's not accurate, so I can understand why studios don't usually bother.

Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost. That's the full name. It was a Scooby-Doo movie. One of my personal favorites :)

Two anime Series that come to mind are "Your Lie In April" and "Kids on the Slope" both of these use rotoscoping on in the animations for the music sessions, they are apparently really accurate

"Why not just get it right?" I hope this was just a throwaway joke or just talking about that one clip because otherwise, I don't think Joel has any idea what getting right means in the context of animating instruments correctly. 👽 Edit: Okay, thank god, he acknowledges it later in the video.

I know its just a meme, but in reality... Who cares how its animated? The Tom and Jerry episode where his Southern uncle who pulls Toms whiskers come to visit, the fact that he plays basically nothing on his guitar, just makes it more fun.

Instruments are not animated correctly in cartoons for the same reason that hackers on movies are always typing random text in a black screen 😆

I like their laughing. It makes me feel happy for some reason

Maybe most don't animate correctly because they are hoping people will make hilarious videos like these, haha. So fun watching this recorded live!☺🎹

This is usually the same in video games. But if you play Cyberpunk 2077, and watch an NPC on the street play the guitar, all the notes were animated correctly! I love attention to detail like this.

YES I love watching the comparison videos!! Cracks me up every time. Oh my gosh and the amount of flutes I've seen just plum going the wrong way is abhorrable. 😂

Considering the time, the budget and what Tom & Jerry actually is, that was mighty impressive 👏👏👏

Amazing concept. Really funny to see the inaccuracies in cartoons.I love the bass kid too.

Loved this! I always pay attention to the animation when instruments are involved. Well done all! Thanks! :D

I was not expecting the worlds of Caillou and RoomieOfficial to intersect today but here we are

Ok I’m just starting out in animation but I can definitely tell you that it’s really hard to animate an instrument correctly -For one it’s more excessive research if you don’t already know how to play the instrument -Then you of course want to get the timing right with the music and notes being played - AND on top of all that you want the animation to still look good and vibe well Yes it can be done but it makes the animation process for such a short scene, so much unnecessary longer

The drum parts in animated AND live-action shows always crack me up. Thanks for throwing some of those scenes in there!

8:50 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 assume

This video reminded me of cartoons that I forgot ever existed. High levels of nostalgia!

I've seen most of these clips. Always wondered how it would have sounded if it was played exactly like the animation. Hilarious!! (Although Tom must have had piano lessons)

drawing hands is difficult. There are a number of times I have drawn things inaccurately because I couldn't get hands to look right while also being accurate for the angles.

7:20 I once drew a character playing on a grand piano and I accidentally flipped the lid part so the wavy shape looked towards the side with the piano keys even though that side was obviously a straight line. Only noticed after my piano playing classmate pointed it out 😂

This is why Tom and Jerry's Hungarian Rhapsody won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Films and Bugs Bunny did not.

10:04 I love how they already have the Bad Guys scene in there, that's awesome!

In the Axel F one, I (as a reflex) said Ding ding right after the song. And then August said Ding ding at the exact same time! So we said Ding ding at the EXACT same time. Pretty cool 😂

Love this video!! Laughing along with Roomie and August😂👍❤

If you want instruments to be animated correctly, there are two ways to go about it. 1) Rotoscoping. Have a musician play, and animators will film it. Then frame by frame the film will be traced over. 2) Motion Capture. Have a musician wear a motion capture suit and have the instrument marked with motion capture 'dots'.

For drummers, EMC Productions has a whole series on this which is where all the drum comparisons came from.

In Soul they actually used a technique called motion capture. Where the actor is an actual piano player, and they motion captured his hands, so that the motions are directly put into the animation. Like they also do in video games.

If I have to guess why some are partially accurate it's probably because they didn't want to hire a professional(budget limitation) to tell them the correct way to play whatever they are playing and so the animators were just watching videos(or for older animations they might've consulted friends who play the intstrument as a hobby) and since they aren't musicians they can't judge if they've made mistakes(didn't get the correct way to do it from the videos they watched). The original Tom & Jerry is the reason I like classical music. I'm sure a lot of people from that generation are the same.

I literally just went and watched all of sing 2 because of 1:45, then came back to finish the video 🤣

Please do a part 2!

5:00 - Pixar uses automation, so they just can load midi and player's fingers automaticly push right notes =))

Never Animated Correctly 👀 To an extent some instruments are. It can be tough to go frame by frame, usually its a surprise when some come out correct/accurate. Was Humourous & fun to watch, Keep it up & Stay Safe Guys 🎶 😎 👊

"Practice 40 hours a day to get it right." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War

For soul they worked really hard on making the fingers moove and bend as they should, the tendons of the hands show as they do irl, and press the right keys as they should etc.

It's A Cartoon What Did Ya Expect🤣🤣

Chances are the two scenes were done by two different animators so one tried to do it right the other just tried to get the shot done, it could also be time constraints, to do it right might have taken a little extra time the animator could really spare

Love this format ! Really entertaining

i always knew most animations of instrument werent accurate but still entertaining hearing what it would have sounded like if the audio matched the animation

In the stop motion classic film “Pinch Cliff grand-prix” there is a musical scene where al instruments in an ensemble was played 100% correct. The maker of this movie was a perfectionist and wanted musicians who watched this brilliant film to enjoy correct handling of the instruments 🎸 👍👍😎

Nobody: Joel: LOOK AT THOSE SEXY HANDS!

Wow can’t believe I never saw this video till now! Thanks for featuring my videos on the channel!

SpongeBob and his paper playing a bop always left me dying lmao

kind of "What I think I'm playing" vs "What I'm actually playing" 🤣

You're doing a similar thing that Two Set Violin did, but they did it with violins in movies as well as animations.

For Soul, the Pixar animators filmed Jon Batiste playing and used the videos to animate Jamie Foxx's character playing. That was the best way to do it IMHO. I enjoy all your videos, Roomie! I learn a lot.

I love watching these type videos can u do a part 2?

Me, trying to impress people: yes, I'm in a band, nothing much Me and the girls: 9:23

90s kids : 😂😂 20s kids : how the hell is a rabbit playing a piano

I laughed at this way more than I expected. Thanks!

That was really funny - I didn't expect to enjoy breaking music scenes from cartoons so much :)

Id have love to see if "Your lie in april" was well done. Or hibike euphonium

Finally my art degree put to some use :P 7:34 but seriously, so many times animators have barely any time to animate something properly and ig not enough ppl even pay attention to it for the industry to really care if it's on point or not... Usually when 2D animation (especially anime) is on point, is when they 3D animate the hands, most surely motion captured by a real life instrument playing. But then it looks so off compared to the rest of the animation. 3D usually has more fps than 2D, which throws me off ngl. I'm just really disappointed in Gorillaz as it's a fricking music band!!1!one!!

I know with Pixar and modern animations that are story driven, they are animating after the voices are recorded, but I wonder if a lot of animations are in progress before they even know what the music might be??? Or it is just animators who only have a general reference of this is the low end of the piano and this is the high end, I draw hands moving on keys.

“Why not just get it right” As someone in the animation field (particular 3D animation) who also has been playing the sax for almost 9 years. Most people don’t know how to play the instrument they’re animating, as well as sometimes it doesn’t look good. Especially for trombone. I can’t remember what show it was but there was one where they played an easy trombone thing, and it slides around, when irl the slide stays still and it’s just embouchure movement. So in animation this would look weird

Is Joel secretly Yoshikage Kira?! Why this fixation in hands, man, calm down XD

Me who has never played any instruments: o______o

Man Monsters vs Aliens got it close XD, honestly I assume that there were kicks hidden in the Bad Guys scene, but the 4th notes from the hi hats I think somehow hits a lot different some reason, plus it somehow seems like the shark's playing the lofi hip hop pattern, like the drunk drumming it's called iirc

I may be thinking too far into this, but isn’t there some irony in the clip at 10:26 that the sounds of a hurt animal are music to a panther’s ears..?

I love how the video has ended to 2:55 then he starts the video LMAO

Guys who make most of their music digitally are critiquing cartoon music! Yes!

The Tom and Jerry one, Cat Concerto, is one of my favorite cartoons. And one of my favorite classical music pieces, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Liszt. It even won an Oscar.

Roomie! In the "Everything everywhere all at once film" There is a scene of some... weird universe.... and this girl plays Clair De Lune with her feet (I assume it is a 3d replacement of hands) and it is absolutely accurate. Was one thing I was super happy to see in the movie lol

So yeah, Tom and Jerry got an oscar for that...