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PaperclipPerfector  1yr ago (text post)   2385 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for November 3, 2023

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One thing that 3D CGI excels at is total animation. 2D animation is really restricted by the medium. Characters usually move in the plane that is perpendicular to the camera and the camera can pan or zoom, but its orientation is fixed. Total animation, that is, having the whole scene move relatively to the camera, is incredibly expensive, as you can no longer rely on background cels staying put and animating just the characters.

Let's say you're drawing two characters running along a long hallway of sorts, constantly avoiding oncoming obstacles. The easiest way to animate them is to have them run to the right. If you want them to run towards the viewer, you have to radically simplify the corridor, probably having a relatively short loop of wall and ceiling decorations. Anything more complex is total animation and it simply blows the costs of the animation sky high.

3D CGI is total animation by default, so you can have your characters and camera do whatever they want. Model your hallway once and you can have your camera weave and bob around the obstacles, circle around the characters, have the characters get closer to it or lag behind and all this without having to redraw every frame from scratch.

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