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"actual 2D animation" being limited to pen/paper on animation cels is a narrow definition. Shows such as Primal are digitally animated using modern techniques, but it's still hand drawn rather than being fully puppeted like many other shows

https://youtu.be/2ZUWGoEbbSs?si=_RxP5RdoyHfXN4Dx



The question is how much is hand drawn? In the context of animators 20 years ago talking about "save 2d" they were talking about animation on twos (or even ones or threes).

Nowadays with hand drawn stuff you're mostly seeing keyframe work being done and the computer doing all of the heavy lifting with inbetweening with maybe some tweaking here and there by junior animators.

The tools are good enough now where it doesn't even look like shitty Flash animation anymore.

Also don't know what you're trying to show me with this 10 minute video. There's maybe 15 seconds of animation work being done this whole video? I see storyboarding and background painting and audio work but this shows shockingly little animation process...(and what I can see clearly is someone drawing keys...)


I agree it wasn't the best example for the point I was trying to make, but it was the best I could find in short notice. It just sounded to me like the "save 2D" people you described were more focused on preserving a very particular kind of 2D animation methodology, and saying because this methodology is dead the entire medium is dead. I was trying to propose that 2D animation that imitates the old style very well does exist in the modern era.

I'll admit, though, that while I know and have talked to some people in the animation industry it is not my area of expertise, so I could be completely off base with my observations.


Yeah, there's a clear stylistic difference between anime that incorporate 3D-looking effects (as in many Netflix series) and ones that don't.




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