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Why 3D Animation Is So Popular
As
more and more artists are using computers to create animations, 3D
animations are becoming quite popular. Earlier only the artists of a
few big companies had access to the software required to create a 3D
animation movie. However, today more people are getting access to
these software and more companies are using these for various
reasons. These days even mobile phones with 3D display screens are
being developed. To
understand how 3D animation is created, you will have to understand
how 2D animation works. Before the age of computers, artists drew
slides with the slightly altered images and then displayed the series
of slides one after another. For example, if the artist wanted to
show a ball falling; then they would draw the ball a little lower in
the second slide, and even lower in the third slide and so one. When
the slides were presented at a certain speed, the illusion of the
moving ball was created. The
problem with this method was that was time consuming and tedious.
Soon the time required for the creation of the frames was reduced
because the computers could be programmed to create the frames
between the initial and final positions of objects. The artist would
have to only make correction if required or add other elements to the
frames. The option of the copy paste function also ensured that much
of the work could be done quickly. However,
the motion pictures created using the 2D techniques were not really
up to the mark because they these did not look realistic enough. 3D
animation made it possible for the movies to look more natural and
thus this technology has been adopted in spite of the fact that it is
more difficult to make such a movie. The
first step in 3D animation is character sketching. The artist
sketches images of the characters from as many angles as possible so
that the character modeler can create the 3D model. Then the
character modeler chooses from a variety of methods to sculpt the
model pretty much in the same way a sculptor uses clay or stone to
make a real sculpture. The only difference is that this done on a
virtual platform. After
this, the scene is built and the characters are set into motion by
the animator who uses software to create the illusion of movement by
giving the initial and final positions of the desired movements. Since
this creates a more lifelike movie, people like to watch it.
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