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2D animation is alive in Japan.

• highwind 5y ago
  These days lot of 2D animation look is achieved via 3D/CGI tools.
  • snuxoll 5y ago
    There's certainly a lot of use of it, but it's painfully obvious when they do so. I think with some more time and practice many studios could make it harder to tell the difference - but it might negate a lot of the cost savings (making more fluid animations rather than the very stiff ones commonly seen, taking advantage of squash/stretch so the movements don't seem so perfect like they were done using computer animation, etc.). Some shows/movies make it work well enough because there's things other than the animation that keep you watching, some use it for walking/transition scenes where it's easier to "blend" it in since it's background to the dialogue most of the time; but I really wouldn't say the "2d animation look" is even close to being achieved in many cases right now. Again, not because I feel the tooling is incapable of it - but because doing it right would nullify the cost savings and defeating the purpose.
• ginko 5y ago
  Have a look at the remakes of Berserk or Sailor Moon. These are two of the most high-profile anime and manga franchises out there and should have plenty of financial backing, yet they look WAY worse than their cel animated counterparts from the 90s. https://mangathrill.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/pjimage-2020-12-04T185317.614.jpg https://mangathrill.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/pjimage-2... https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Untitled-1.jpg https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/...
  • spywaregorilla 5y ago
    That's some heavy cherry picking though. Lots of well drawn anime out today.