Welcome animators, today we're gonna talk about the difference between 2D and 3D animation in terms of difficulty.
So animation can be simple or complex whether it be 2D or 3D and it all depends on your project of course. The main difference between 2D and 3D is that in 2D it is animating drawing and in 3D it is about animating virtual puppets. But of course, it is more complex than that because a production process involves a lot of steps, especially in 3D. So let's talk about the major differences. In 2D, 2D animation is something you create frame by frame so it is simple in concept but it is time-consuming and methodical and the level of difficulty depends on your skills and the quality of your project and you will find it easier if you draw quickly and efficiently and this is something that is gonna make it a whole lot easier. And in 3D, 3d animation is not about creating every frame from scratch like in 2d and you don't even have to animate every frame, you set at the beginning and ending position of your animated character or object then the software will do the frames in between. It's not that easy of course when it comes to the real world, then of course you need to tweak the animation if it is necessary. 3D is very technical which means you need to learn a lot of technical skills in order to be able to create animations and this is one of the biggest difference between 2d and 3d. 3d animation has a lot of elements to prepare before starting to animate otherwise it is not going to work.
I hope you got a good solve idea about the differences and now we're going to talk about a process that makes 2d animation and 3d animation is possible and in 3d of course it starts with a script and when it gets greenlit it goes to production then the storyboard includes movements, angles, cameras, and timing of shots. This is basically the same whether it be in 2d or 3d. Then we go to layout for seas and environments which is the preparation of scenes and positions of character and stuff and then animation which involves key drawings or frames, then the cleanup of these key drawings so that the lines don't vibrate when it comes to movement and animation.
Next is the smoothing of the animation which we call intercalation, cleanup of the intercalation is the next process or next step in the process, and finally ink and paint. Now they are doing this process because they used to do it by hand before and it was actually beautiful and difficult to do in the same and time-consuming. Of course, several applications make 2d animation easier and it will automate the movement of objects by keyframing attributes on the timeline. Some softwares can help you speed up the animation like motion tracking so you can add animation on top of existing footage. You can also use 2d software to add visual effects to 2d scenes, which is very difficult to use traditional drawing if not impossible to come close to in terms of quality.
Now let's talk about the process of creating 3d animations. Of course, it starts with a script and storyboard like 2d animation and then we get to the real difference which is modeling. In this process, we create everything you see in the animation movie from props, environments, characters, and everything, then rigging. It is about creating skeleton, bones, skin, clothes, hair, and hair control dynamics to be able to move the characters. Next is texturing or surfacing which is about creating textures colors for surface and interaction with lighting. Next layout, which is the step between pre-production and production and this is the almost same in 2d which is about creating environments scenes and positions of character and so on. Animation, which is the part in which character start talking action. Next visual effects for character and environments and this includes a lot of stuff not just explosions but like dust, smoke, vapour and no footprints for god's sake, everything is part of the visual effects departments work. Next matte painting which is the process of creating the backgrounds for the environments like skies, mountains, forests, and so on and this includes basically everything that is not going to be part for. Lighting is also a big part of animation because it kind of creates or breaks the effort of the people who created what came before lighting. Finally cameras and rendering and this is the final step in which they set up cameras and they start kind of rendering the animation. They created the higher quality possible and then they give it basically to rendering farms which spend up to 20 to 30 hours of power rendering for each single frames and movie or the animation probably includes ten thousands of frames.
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