3D Animation

 

3D Animation is the Process of giving the illusion of movement to drawings, models, or inanimate objects.
3D graphic animations including animated 3D models are a great way to bring to life an idea or design that is still on the drawing board or just difficult to describe with words. 3D animations can make visual that which is invisible or hard to conceive.

Animating objects that appear in a three-dimensional space. They can be rotated and moved like real objects. 3D animation is at the heart of games and virtual reality, but it may also be used in presentation graphics to add flair to the visuals

3D Animation Examples

• Toy Story
• Shrek
• The Incredibles
• Jurassic Park (the dinosaurs)
• The Transformers (the robots)

3D animation (aside from stop-motion, which really is a form of 3D animation), is completely in the computer. Things that you create in a 3D animation program exist in an X, Y & Z world. Instead of a drawing of a globe, I have a sphere that can actually turn 360 degrees.

3D allows you to do things that simply are not possible in 2D animation.

• 3D objects, once modeled, can be treated almost as a physical object. You can light it differently, you can move a camera to look at it from above, or below. In 2D animation EVERYTHING is drawn. “Moving the camera” in 2D means drawing everything from another angle. “Moving the camera” in 3D is simply dragging it to another position to see if you like it better.
• 3D allows you to create realistic objects. You can use textures and lighting to create objects that appear solid, and can even be integrated seamlessly into live video elements.

There are pros and cons about both methods. Which method of animation is best is based the specifics of  what a client needs, but like all animation it lets you do things that would be otherwise implausible or impossible.