The Difference Between 2D and 3D animation (What does it mean to animate in 3D?) 

I wish they made more 2D animated films :(

After watching this, I realized animation is harder than I thought. AND I THOUGHT IT WAS REALLY HARD!!

I prefer 2d animation. It's more... classic and enjoyable. I hope it never cease to exist. I wouldn't want to watch all anime and all series in 3d.

This is why Treasure Planet is one of my favorite animated films ever. It combines both 2D and 3D, it was so ahead of its time. Like John Silvers's cyborg parts were metal and realistic but the rest of him was in 2D. And somehow they made it futuristic and historic at the same time, like the Middle Age version of a futuristic society.

Comment section 90% - I like 3D but I think 2D is better 10%- Trolls

Respect for 3D animators just went through the roof. Also learning about 2D was interesting, I knew they had a lot of repeated drawings but not how it all came together. Really liked hearing about the comparisons.

I'm in school for 2D animation since it just feels so much more natural, no matter how much improvement 3D animation goes through. Sure it looks fantastic, they make it all so realistic but it doesn't have what 2D has, the stroke of the artist, the feeling the artist goes to draw that line in the frame. I don't know, it's just different. Offcourse I still love 3D animation but I still hold 2D a lot dearer.

I don't mind CGI if it's done right or suitable to the story (Wreck-It Ralph for example). CGI can be really cool and pretty, but I like 2D animation because characters have more of the smooth fluid movements I like.

2D of 3D both have there intresting things

What saddens me most is the complete 3D animation takeover for basically every modern film. I love 3D, I think it's very beautiful, but I personally love 2D more and it makes me sad that we don't have much variety anymore. I think it would be awesome if we could have a 2D film, every now and again.

It seems very intuitive of Pixar to know that a moving hold was necessary even during the luxo lamp animation. Now that I know it, I'll notice it more often. Thanks for the great video!

When I went to see Wreck-It Ralph, there was a short film called 'Paperman', I didn't know if it was 3D or 2D animation or maybe both. It looked FANTASTIC! Like the best animation I've ever seen in YEARS! I hope Disney made a full-length animated picture using this animation!

WOW! That was so insightful. SO much hard work goes into animation!

I actually watched this because of your presentation... not really interested learning how to but I wondered how it worked. Very intrigued by your teaching style!!! You are an excellent communicator!!! Thank you!!! Who knows...

Very informative I have no idea it was like this. Thank you so much for this video !!

Thank you Morr, nice job in explaining the difference. If and when you can find the time, I would truly appreciate a video showing and explaining all the different areas/jobs required to create a 3D animated character.

It's obvious this guy only does 3D animation, man I feel so under appreciated lol. Both are equally hard, both can have lazy results, whether it's grabbing a low-poly model off the unity asset store with rig intact, to using symbol animation just to cut corners and ignore perspective and dimension. Both are extremely tedious though, and depending on how much layering there is for your character, it really all comes down to design. One can say that 2D Animating a photo-realistic line drawing of the eiffel tower falling at 30 fps on 2's frame-by-frame is harder than 3D animating a phong with a simple bump-mapped texture zipping across the screen. The opposite exists as well, for 3D animating a millipede to traverse tall grass while it gets run over by a tractor is significantly harder than snoopy's walk cycle on 3's. I'm probably having a pissy fit, but in my experience with doing both they should've gotten another guy who's experienced in 2D animation to collab with this guy.

This video is an amazing overview as a beginner. Thank you!

Thanks this is a dream course for me and I am pretty much loving what I see

Great tutorial, thanks for going in depth.

Really interesting to see the difference so well explained. Nice work on the video. This really hit home how 3D animators live in curve graphs and 2D with the drawing. I’ve seen it mentioned in behind the scenes at Pixar, but this really hit home just how painstaking and abstract 3D animation is. One note though, the carpet in Aladdin was 3D the tassels were 2D, but they used 3D for the carpet surface. Your statement holds though, a completely still 3D character would look much more jarring then a cartoonish 2D. I’d say because each medium has set certain expectations about their ‘worlds’ as 3D generates more tween frames we come to expect them.

thanks man i really needed to know the difference between 2d and 3d animation. this video really helped me thumbs up

I didn't realize there's so much work in 3D as well, either 2D or 3D are amazing. Thanks for every animator that create amazing work for us to watch!

About the whole 3D having to constantly move or else it looks dead, that's the same with 2D. This style of animation is called Full Animation, where every frame is moving constantly in some way or another. Look at Hotel Transylvania: that movie uses still frames consistently and it looks really nice! It's kinda like if you were to animate traditionally in 2D, and then all the sudden use Flash tweens; it'd be super jarring! Any change in animation style abruptly is jarring, which is why I think Courage the Cowardly Dog's most frightening scenes was when the animation style was changed abruptly. Great video though!

Very nice video! When i first started animating i had a lot of trouble understanding the concept of animating in 2's and 8's and such (since I started working with 3D animation), but your video explains it really well. Congrats!

Heard it on SPI- Pat Flynn podcast. You really do a great job. Keep it up. I will email you. Thank you

fantastic well explained video, thank you very much for this video it helped me so much with my school work

thanks for the great description of the two!

Great informative and well explained video, thank you!

I learned more from you than animation school. Great tut

Big studios don't do 2D anymore because it takes more time and effort to do hand-drawn. However, if they can make 2D films using CGI that look and feel like hand-drawn, I'm all for it (As long as they don't use flash. Yuck.). 2D and 3D films have a different feel to them. Could you imagine a 3D Lion King or a 2D Frozen? I didn't think so... But by abandoning 2D, the studios are also abandoning the feel of 2D films. I say they should adapt 2D to the technology instead of ditching it completely.

That was great. Thanks for creating this!

We need more of the classics. 2d for the win 😂❤️

if i have to choose, i’ll definitely animate in 3d. i can’t draw to save my life, and i think i’d be better at 3d. i also prefer 3d animations (the really weird, viral short video, no movies)

This was very detail explanation, thank you ^_^

that was very informative. Thanks for this. I'm just getting into my animation major, and while I'm more interested in 2D my schools major is actually for 3D. We will learn 2D first though.

It has been a great help

So helpful, thank you !

Woah! There's so much differences in animation.I'm doing animation and games design course and I'm working on cell animation, I thought it would take long to make but its pretty simple :)

Thanks for the explanation

Great explanation!

This was a useful and interesting video, thanks!

Really good video. Thank you

I'm not ditching entirely your video here, and I hope it doesn't feel that way, it's great that you took the time to explain the differences between the two techniques (and after all it is about the differences, and not the similarities :P). I just get a bit tired of people thinking we write down code or we just move around curves when we do 3D animation ;). It's still just the art of creating images to convey life. And I know a lot of animators who only use the graph editor 5% of the time.

Great overview

Good comparison, thanks!

Thank you for this!

Thanks for the tutorial. Great information though.

Great video!

Thanks for this!!

I think 3d animation has limits. I know that sounds strange granted a computer can do practically anything. But CG usually only looks good if lots of money is put into it. 2d animation can look good on almost any budget (granted if he animators know what their doing). I also believe 2d can get away with a lot more. 3d is used to simulate real life so if the characters and setting (to and extent) look overly stylized and cartooney, the animation looks very unappealing and quite ugly. As for 2d, if that looks stylized it looks well placed and appealing. Don't get me wrong, I do love 3d animation. But I don't think it compares to drawing that come to life.

good info .. thanks alot

You explained it very easily

Great show, very interesting explanation .. I subscribed :)

Thank you. It helps a lot :))

Thanks for the video

This video explained alot of discrepancies in my knowledge of animation. It's really cool to finally have a grasp on what I previously called anime "choppy framerate cartoons".

"the big studios like Disney and Pixar do" People, cmon, we just have to stop thinking that Disney/Pixar is ALL in animation, there are a ton of other studio just as big as Disney, even better!

thanks this was helpful

Awesome demonstration! Thank you. I also prefer the original idea of the animation. The Hand-drawn style that Disney used to do in the past. I have also subscribed to your channel. :-)

Thank you so much for learning :)

Thanks for this video. It was very well done and informative... I knew how 2D animation works, but I was wondering for a while now how it's done with 3D. I really prefer the look and feeling of 2D animation and hope that Anime won't be taken over by 3D anytime soon

Really interesting video.

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well, I do think 3D is replacing 2D, its been happening for years and not seem to be stopping. There would always be places that will do 2D and stop motion, but these places are getting more and more scarce.. BUT that does not mean that 3D animation is easier to make. it is actually more expensive, since to make 3D animation you not only need an animator, but you also need someone to model that model, someone to rig it, texture, light, render and so on.. while in 2D its mostly drawings...

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Hey Zenioul, Thanks for the comment! I doubt people would see tangles and think its 2D animation. You used the word "traditional", which may be confusing for some people, but the difference between 2D and 3D is quite apparent I think. And regarding the graph editor - unless you're doing some kind of stylized animation, you would eventually have to spend a lot of time there. I have not seen a 3D animator who does not keep that window open for a large part of the process.

very good vid for people who don't know much about 2D and 3D animation.

thanks that gives me hope =D

What program did you use for 2d ??? Or well what program do you think I should use I was thinking 2d but not sure where to start???

thanks !

Learning this just now with a Commercial project (The graph editor sometimes hates me) hahaha XD

Thank you.....

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2D or 3D, ik how to make 3D animations but idk how to render, and i can do 2D animations but i cant do 12 frames per second, WHY?!?!? D: i want a proper porgram for 2D animations, but i have autodesk maya program but idk how to use it!

I have made a few 2D movies I've tried 3D but I have to do drawing for it witch is almost impossible so can you get a little more technicle with it.

can you please tell which program did you use to make

Good idia foe presentation☺

Can u please say me what is the app used in 1:25 sec .I am new to this site .So,it will be helpful if u reply..

Hi Bloop, I agree that 2D and 3D animation are quite different in the sense that the tool is different and that changes a bit the workflow. But I feel like all the documentaries, DVD bonuses etc... only talk about the tools and not the actual art that is animation. And when you take the core of animation (be it drawn or computer generated or stop motion), it's the same.

SO What animation is faster to learn and create.. If it 3d. What is the best animation software in 3d.. Please answer me..?

Thank you so much for this video! I'm trying to decide on what major I should go into for post secondary and this has definitely helped me understand so much more about 3D and 2D animating process. I was originally thinking of going into 3D animation because it seems the industry is growing and could use a lot more people in that area, however, I enjoy drawing so much that I'm not sure if 3D is right for me if it's more dependent on programming, graphs, and curves. But I'm also scared that the 2D animation industry will start to grow smaller as more movies and films are transferred to 3D. What do you guys think? I would really appreciate different opinions and perspectives.

Great :)

please what animation software do you use

i saw this today at school funny !! nice video ;)

It's easier to animate in 3d and takes less time once you have the rigs set up. An individual can produce a quality 3d animation without spending too much time. It also easier to edit 3d animation. With 2d animation, it would takes months if not years for an individual to sketch, ink, and color each and every background and character movement. There is no easy "fill" command like in 3d animation. However, there are low quality rigs being set up in 2d animation for a lot of low end shows.

interesting video :) based on your knowledge and experience, does getting a job become more difficult the older you get? i know this question may sound stupid, but i really want to work in the industry and sometimes i'm scared that i'm too late to start

What software program did you use for the 3d animation ?

I hope first people should stop comparing the media(2D/3D).

bloop animation could you please tell me about the movie named dragon ball super broly which was released in 2018, I want to specifically know if it's 2D or 3D animation. and another question related to movies such as the toy story 1 which was released in 1995. was that in 2D or 3D animation .... I believe 3D animation didn't existed that time but the movie has those graphical content and the colors makes it like 3D. so it's hard to point out. please let me know about this question as well. just in case if you haven't seen the movie. try watching out a clip on RU-vid. please do reply to both the questions. thank you.

Is it possible for a person to start a 3d animation short film series by thenselves? What about 2d? Still doing research

What program do you recommend using for beginners that wanna try 3D Animation ?

I feel like he's underselling 2D animation, i mean its practically the difference between being an artist and a puppeteer the way he describes it but apparently art isn't as hard compared to 3D animation, i mean am i wrong, is drawing art really that easy?

Bloop Animation Wow holy hell thats impressive.

Hye... I Want to start Learn and make a 2d animated Cartoon To Display our culture.... Can You Suggest me from Where i would start. Thnx

Hello, I´m a beginner, but i have a cartoon movie idea, what software recomended for me?

I appreciate the work people put into 3D projects but I still prefer anime in 2D. 2D gives your mind more to work :)

what software is that

I am 33. I grew up watching 2D cartoons. For my birthday, my mom got me the Looney Tunes Golden Collection. It is great. I may do an online Animation class so I can make animation like that. I already have a copyright ona cartoon. Fantastic stuff.