Cgi ponies
Are they going to be like despicable me and secret life of pets are more like characters cgi
But I wish every pony were cgi
Luckily, the CGI nightmare won't happen.
Confirmed to be animated in 2D with Toon Boom.
P.S. Lurk the damn board. Me and other people said this multiple times already.
Good. CGI animation has really put me off animated films.
Metallica + Iron Maiden + Black Sabbath + My Little Pony = Life
Wow, awesome. I mean, the show is done in the most beautiful Flash animation I've ever seen, but I won't turn down hand-drawn if that's the way they want to do it. Just hope it essentially looks the same. The show's quite gorgeous. *u*
shareNo one said anything about traditional animation. Toon boom is a computer program like flash. Both of them can do traditional animation, and both of them can do puppet animation, which is what the show uses.
share...oh. So it'll look like the show? I thought the show was Flash.
shareDid you even read my post? I never said the show wasn't flash. It is flash. And why wouldn't it look like the show?
shareObviously. You said something about puppet animation, which I've never heard of aside from actual puppets and stop-motion (despite having been in two college-level animation classes using Flash.) Someone else had said 2D, which I figured meant traditional--as in, hand-drawn in the style of the show. Not CG. The movie logo looks very similar to the usual style, but not identical.
shareUsually, in flash animation, the collection of symbols that makes up a character is referred to as a puppet. Maybe you're a teacher didn't refer to them that way but that is what a lot of animators call then. As for being animated in today, all that 2D means is that it is animated with flat drawings or cut outs, rather than being animated with 3-D models or stop motion puppet. Traditional animation refers to animation where each unique frame is redrawn, keyword being unique, as a single drawing can last multiple frames and can be reused.
shareAhh, I see; thanks for the clarification. Yeah, I don't believe my professor used that term.
So 2D is like the South Park style?
I honestly found Flash confusing and did most of my best work in those classes by just drawing another slightly-different picture in each frame--that traditional flip-book-style. I realized that wasn't the point, but couldn't seem to get the program to work as I wanted, so I simply continued doing what I was used to. xD But, it was only an elective chosen because I love animation so much; had a feeling I wasn't gonna much of a knack for actually doing it. xp
Not to be rude, But you probably need to work on your reading comprehension. Cutout animation is only. A subset of 2d animation. I specifically said 2d animation was done with flat DRAWINGS OR cutouts. Let me simplify this for you. You the difference between 2 and 3 dimensions? 2d animation is any animation done in 2 dimensions, meaning that all the animation is done on a flat surface, either by making a series of drawings to simulate movement, moving around parts, whether those parts be cut outs or drawings either by making a series of drawings to simulate movement, moving around parts, whether those parts be cut outs or drawings, or even making a series of cut outs, though I haven't ever seen this done. There can be depth, but it has to be simulated. 3d animation is any animation done in 3 dimensions, meaning that the animator works in 3d space, either by moving around a 3-D model in a computer, or by moving around a puppet. Stop motion can actually be both, depeding on whether you use 2d peices of paper, or 3d puppets. I hope I didn't sound condescending, but the medium of text limits me
shareYeah, not sure why I zeroed in on the "cutouts" as your definition of 2D. Now I don't even know why there was any confusion here in the first place. I know what 2D and 3D are.
And obviously they don't actually use flipbooks to make movies & cartoons; I just meant that method of drawing a sequence of images that, when viewed in rapid succession, appear to be moving.
Actually, the original question was about the movie's animation style. The answer was "2D in ToonBoom." So that means, a Flash-like computer program...so it is computer-generated...but the images are flat...and it'll look like the show, rather than Secret Life of Pets or any of these other 3D CG movies. As I'd figured--before misinterpreting the "2D" as meaning that they were hand-drawing it.
(And yeah, I hear ya; that is the majority, it certainly seems. But don't ya worry 'bout my reading comprehension--my scores on that part of the SAT couldn't have been higher. ;] I was thrown off on this thread from the start due to the mistaken assumption that 2D meant traditional. I hadn't considered that CG & 3D aren't the same thing; there's 2D CG, like this show and many other current cartoons. D'oy. Nonetheless, FiM has the prettiest/best Flash I've seen.)
I am the type of person who is highly critical of myself, and yet I found that I seem to have better reading comprehension then a lot of people on the Internet, though that may just beDue to the vast amount of users with questionable intelligence who make up the majority of people who post content.
shareAlso, professional animators never use a flip-book, though they may flip through the pages of their rough animation if done on paper.
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