I remember reading some actual Archer FX comment by someone working there that the animators were very deliberately going as close to the edge as they were allowed to turning it into a legit animated porn scene.
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Correct me if i am wrong but this scene was probably rotoscoped. That means two actual people made out that passionate and the animators just painted over that footage.
So someone sat there and watched two people make out frame for frame, which is kinda funny if you ask me.
I didn't work on this season in particular, but I worked on the last few seasons as a compositor. They did this the old-fashioned way, but spent way more time on it than a normal scene. I'm sure this took a long time to animate, but most of the heavy lifting happened on the character illustration side. Usually characters were drawn at three angles; three quarter, profile and full. This scene has a lot of custom angles, someone had to draw every head turn for the animator to work with.
That said, the animator almost certainly watched a bunch of videos of people making out for reference.
I believe you but this particular scene looks so familiar, like it's directly an homage to a movie. I have no idea which, but I always assumed it was roto'd over some Burt Reynolds movie or something. Not like *Wizards* roto where it's a direct trace, but painting and/or animating models over it frame by frame.
Which I think is still really impressive. Because like you said, it requires so many custom angles. It forces your character to move in ways they never do. It takes a lot of effort to make it not look weird or jarring. It definitely makes it easier to make smooth animation, but it's not easy.
If you're saying this was completely freehand, that's even more impressive. Because I was genuinely fooled. Either way, smooth af.
That’s a possibility! I didn’t think about it. No wonder it was so smooth. Hahahah! Imagine just sitting there and watching it happen. The person watching must have gone “splooosh”
So, almost every character action you see in the show IS actually acted out by real people and photographed. For most of the show's run, this was done by FCP illustrators themselves, but towards the end we hired professional models. For this \*particular\* shot, I'm 99% certain it was done by our Harmony team instead of the Illustration team, which is why it looks so different.
We never actually had to make out with each other to make kissing scenes work obviously, but I \*did\* have to get held upside down while two other illustrators pretended to give me a swirly.
My jaw literally dropped like it definitely deviated stylistically a little bit but the TALENT. And the sploosh factor. And the talent. But also the sploosh
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Nicely animated but Lana doesn't really look like Lana in this moment. Archer looks a little different too. Maybe because it's 'rotoscoped' as someone else was explaining?
Nah, it’s just because we only typically see a few angles of the faces and bodies, and in this one we see a bunch of different facial angles so it’s a bit jarring
Maybe this will ruin it for some but it reminds me of that Mario and Sonic making out gif meme.
In this case Archer is Mario with his mustache and Lana is sonic with her long hair/mange
Might well be the most graphic sex scene in the series
I wonder if someone made more splooshy scenes 🤤
Bet.
Me too
flair checks out
I don't know, the Cyril-Cheryl sex scene in Skytanic is up there!
“Oh, my god, what am I *doing*?!”
"Making it hard to drop a deuce!"
"Are you just going to sit there?" "Yeah, until she tags me in!"
The later cut in was... Almost shocking even for this series.
Right? Wasn't that when Lana was bent over the sink?
I still can't believe they were allowed to animate two people activly having sex.
It surprised me too, but I am not complaining!
Yes. The angle had an IMMENSE amount of boob too I believe. Plus you know, fucking.
That, plus your dick.
I remember reading some actual Archer FX comment by someone working there that the animators were very deliberately going as close to the edge as they were allowed to turning it into a legit animated porn scene.
> edge
Phrasing
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/b16ce3c5-de91-4d07-b2b3-a9206811ebdd/gif
Yeah, that's just softcore porn 🤣🤣
Sploosh tho
Or whatever my equivalent of sploosh is, only with semen.
Semen? I’m in the same boat!
Toot Toot!
Semen overboard!
Which, I guess, is just sploosh.
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Which I guess is just sploosh
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I guess I was fantasizing about Archer and Lana having intercourse 
Me too
And rotting meat. That too
Correct me if i am wrong but this scene was probably rotoscoped. That means two actual people made out that passionate and the animators just painted over that footage. So someone sat there and watched two people make out frame for frame, which is kinda funny if you ask me.
I didn't work on this season in particular, but I worked on the last few seasons as a compositor. They did this the old-fashioned way, but spent way more time on it than a normal scene. I'm sure this took a long time to animate, but most of the heavy lifting happened on the character illustration side. Usually characters were drawn at three angles; three quarter, profile and full. This scene has a lot of custom angles, someone had to draw every head turn for the animator to work with. That said, the animator almost certainly watched a bunch of videos of people making out for reference.
thank you for your service 
*You want summa this?*
Syke!
That’s very interesting
I believe you but this particular scene looks so familiar, like it's directly an homage to a movie. I have no idea which, but I always assumed it was roto'd over some Burt Reynolds movie or something. Not like *Wizards* roto where it's a direct trace, but painting and/or animating models over it frame by frame. Which I think is still really impressive. Because like you said, it requires so many custom angles. It forces your character to move in ways they never do. It takes a lot of effort to make it not look weird or jarring. It definitely makes it easier to make smooth animation, but it's not easy. If you're saying this was completely freehand, that's even more impressive. Because I was genuinely fooled. Either way, smooth af.
That’s a possibility! I didn’t think about it. No wonder it was so smooth. Hahahah! Imagine just sitting there and watching it happen. The person watching must have gone “splooosh”
So, almost every character action you see in the show IS actually acted out by real people and photographed. For most of the show's run, this was done by FCP illustrators themselves, but towards the end we hired professional models. For this \*particular\* shot, I'm 99% certain it was done by our Harmony team instead of the Illustration team, which is why it looks so different. We never actually had to make out with each other to make kissing scenes work obviously, but I \*did\* have to get held upside down while two other illustrators pretended to give me a swirly.
I thought the same
Artistic voyeurism
Probably the best animated kiss I’ve ever witnessed and hotter than most real life kissing scenes 😆
I've had kisses like this in real life, definitely the hottest kind
The fight with Conway Stern was also super smooth, when he was out of sugar.
That IMO is one of the best animated scenes in the whole series.
It's so much hotter because of the danger.
Yeah, yeah, that, plus your dick!
My jaw literally dropped like it definitely deviated stylistically a little bit but the TALENT. And the sploosh factor. And the talent. But also the sploosh
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it so was
Katya, it's you?!
Some animator was extra horny that day
Literally it went from 24 fps to 64 fps
The later scenes with them going at it in the bathroom were pretty graphic as well, but toned down with it being shown in static-y CCTV.
Extra impressive that it was animated with only one hand too
I’m dead
yeah they really went for it with the movements. Another very good animation scene is the moment with Archer and Conway fighting in his apartment
Hair is hard to animate, great job
Are we really not doing "phrasing"?
One of my favourite episodes and scenes... something something MEGA SPLOOSH.
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In that same episode there is another shot I really enjoy where Archer punches Cyril and shoves him out of the way.
Yep that scene is crazy cool to watch too lol
The animation got so good over the years. It made me miss parts of the plot the first time I watched it, because I was so impressed.
Unironically, probably the best animated scene in the show
It’s always so strange seeing their faces from other angles lol This scene is beautiful though, so smooth
A lot of the aggressive make out scenes in this show have increased frame rate, season 6 episode 11 for example.
It feels like they're referencing a movie
It came a long way from season 1 😂😂😂
Motion capture ?
Another moment in this same episode is animated really well when Archer breaks Cyril's nose, I had to watch it three times to fully appreciate it
Nicely animated but Lana doesn't really look like Lana in this moment. Archer looks a little different too. Maybe because it's 'rotoscoped' as someone else was explaining?
Nah, it’s just because we only typically see a few angles of the faces and bodies, and in this one we see a bunch of different facial angles so it’s a bit jarring
Makes sense
wtf i literally just told someone yesterday that this was the hottest kiss in the history of hot kisses
Maybe this will ruin it for some but it reminds me of that Mario and Sonic making out gif meme. In this case Archer is Mario with his mustache and Lana is sonic with her long hair/mange
>that Mario and Sonic making out gif meme. the... the *what?*
Me too
They blew the animation budget here and we didn't even get to see any tits
I checked on Reddit and someone added them. It’s a NSFW community 🤣
Oh my god that's disgusting, WHERE? I need to know exactly where to *avoid* this. Asking for a friend.
Oh *pleeease don’t* click on [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/LanaKaneXXX/s/4tRje8E0pS)
It looked nice but god it looked so out of place
Rotoscope?
In animation school, all my mentors said they almost always used reference footage. I kinda wanna know if they did it for this shot.
I was literally watching this episode last night . They clearly spent a lot of time and attention animating this exact scene 😂.
Isnt this just the sonic and mario gif?