2.5D Animation Process - Clip Studio Paint & Blender -- "Treasure Hunt" Short Animation 

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The zoom in towards the awkward flat image at the end is what gets me

Agreed

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thanks! Yes the characters and the background doesn't have the same timing. I alternated between 2s and 3s for the characters in some parts of the animation and it was a mistake haha. I did so because I didn't plan to animate the background in 3D at first. The girl character is mostly animated in 2s and the male character is mostly on 3s. I planned to animate the camera panning in 3s along with the male character but I didn't get the perspective right so I switched to a 3D background. There are other mistakes that I discovered when I composited this but I left them as is. I'll just do them when I retake the scene haha. Well spotted though! =)

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@@necromansir6060 no entiendo qué estás diciendo

@@necromansir6060 no entiendo qué estás diciendo

Yes it will work. The 3D scene is just for background anyways. Although if you plan to put your 2D character in a 3D scene like I did, you should try first if your 3D software allows movie files as textures so you could put your animated characters in it. I'm not so sure but I think most 3D softwares can.

have a gray project I'm making my own anime, scenario and animations

Sorry they haven’t replied yet but I would like to if that’s ok

how? literally every modern day anime is doing it, Attack on titan, jujutsu kaisen, Jobless reincarnation all a few examples i can name from the top of my head. Even in older anime they're used as well, when it comes to art, the only thing that matters is results, as long as you're not stealing someone else's work.

@@DimiArt no im saying that i was really ashamed of using it

@@tenshikurasaki1362 oh, my bad. Don't be ashamed!

@@DimiArt nah its fine buddy but i was ashamed because i though it was cheating and because i was wanting to learn traditional back to the paper and pencil for backgrounds xD

@@tenshikurasaki1362 that would take you forever, traditional painting backgrounds is more for like if you're working with a actual animation studio. as a independent animator, gotta be time efficient!

2.5D isn't just animated character paintings. It's just one way of achieving a 2.5D effect. The basic ideas of 2.5D is having 2D elements, either still images or animated sprites, create the illusion of 3D space/movement through creative camera work, or, having 2D and 3D elements blend together sometimes to a point where it blurs the line between both mediums and having the audiences wonder which is 2D and 3D. To put it simply, its like 'more than just 2D, but not fully 3D.' One other method of achieving 2.5D effect is cut-out animation where parts of a character are drawn in different layers then manually animated. The example you gave is a simple example of cut-out animation and is very common in mobile games and game cutscenes but animated series and films actually use this method too in a more detailed way. Another method is like Live2D which is commonly used by Hololive and other Vtubers. It is similar to cut-out animation with layered drawings but instead of manual animation, the layers are rigged and are tracking a moving actor in real-time to emulate a 3D character while having an all-2D asset. Another method is 2D sprites integrated (not composited) within a 3D environment or a 3D character within a layered 2D set and these ones are very common in modern side-scrolling platformer games. There are a lot of games and animated series and films that, though through various methods, have utilized the ideas of 2.5D and achieved its intended effect. Take for example the card game Shadowverse by Cygames that uses Spine2D for their painted character animations and the current Fate series and movies by the Japanese studio Ufotable that uses both 2D and 3D particularly in battle scenes.

@@shir0802 Thanks for the explanation. Are there specific names to distinguish them? Because I'm very interested in the fully painted form over traditional animation, but calling them all by the confusing catch-all "2.5D" is rather irritating.

@@Dismythed You're probably a bit confused and irritated by it because you associated 2.5D to just animated character paintings. 2.5D is the effect, not the process or the style. 2D is called 2D because the art only involves 2 axis, X and Y (width and height). 3D on the other hand had X, Y and Z (width, height and depth). 2.5D uses 2D assets and some camera/layering work and sometimes with other 3D techniques to create depth (Z axis). Traditional hand-drawn art and digital hand-drawn art uses different processes and techniques but falls under 2D. 3D modeling, digital sculpting and photoscanning uses different tools and techniques as well but falls under 3D. It's the same with 2.5D. Either it's digital cut-out animation or live2D, or 2D assets with the help of 3D elements, as long as the 2D assets are animated and shown to create depth, it falls under 2.5D. It is not called '2.5D' just to be a catch-all term, it's called that because the 2D assets are animated with depth regardless of process. As for specific names, there aren't that many. Because 2.5D is in-between 2D and 3D, you can use techniques from both sides. The most common and easier one is digital Cut-out animation technique. That's mostly used in mobile games specifically in the animated character paintings that you mentioned and also in game cutscenes and in flash animations and films. =)

@@shir0802 Thanks for the reply. It's nice to hear from the video maker, so I don't want to put you off of responding to comments. You should be commended. That said, I get that you enjoy gab, I like gabbers, but a simple "No, sorry, there aren't" would suffice. No offense meant. :S