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Difference Between 2D and 3D Animation

Animation is a field of art or science that has the capability to impart life and zeal to non living characters. Basically it is based on the phenomenon of persistence of vision that allows the visual illusion of the objects. It is a phenomenon of an eye in which an image continues to appear in one's vision after the exposure to the original image has ceased. This happens for about one twenty-fifth of a second. In early days animation was restricted to only hand drawings. But with the advent of technological know how animation has got a new face that is known as two dimensional and three dimensional animations. A three dimensional animation is far better than two dimensional. It adds more vigor and vivacity to animation.

Animation is simulation of movement created by a series of pictures or frames. It starts with drawing independent pictures and putting them together in a frame to form the illusion of continuous motion. Two dimension means that the picture is drawn with help of two coordinates of geometry. These are designated as x (horizontal) coordinate and y (vertical) coordinate. 2D is flat which means that if a picture is turned to the side then it becomes a line. Whereas 3D includes an extra dimension known as z coordinate which stands for rotation and depth. The basic difference between 2d and 3d can be illustrated by drawing a rectangle and a cube. Rectangle is a 2D figure whereas cube is a 3D figure. 3D presents the object from every possible direction like in real life. 2D bitmap or vector graphics are used to create 2D animation figures.

Various techniques that are used in creating 2D figures are morphing, twining, onion skinning and interpolated rotoscoping. Whereas 3D animation involves digital modeling of characters. Various steps that are involved in 3D animation are character sketching, character modeling, scene building, texturing, lightening and camera setup, rendering, lightening and camera setup, rendering, editing and mixing etc. Other techniques that can be applied are the use of mathematical functions, simulated fur or hair and the use of motion capture. In this way we can extract greater use of multimedia through 2D and 3D animation.

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Feature 2: Advanced 3D Modelling * Overview of Features * Click Here to watch an amazing demo of water fluid motion! Supports a full range of 3D object types including polygon meshes, NURBS surfaces, bezier and B-spline curves, metaballs, vector fonts. Editing functions such as extrude, bevel, cut, spin, screw, warp, subdivide, noise Very fast Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces with optimal iso-lines display and sharpness editing Modifier stack deformers souch as Lattice, Curve, Armature Mirror modifier with middle vertices clipping and automatic deletion of inner faces Non destructive real time Boolean and Array modifiers Mesh modeling based on vertex, edge and/or face selection Smooth soft selection editing tools for organic modeling Feature 3: 3D Cartoon Animation * Overview of Features * Click Here to see a video that demostrates the physics of Blender Armature (skeleton) deformation with forward/inverse kinematics Auto IK allows posing FK chains easily Non-linear animation editor for mixing individual actions in Action editor Automated walkcycles along paths andAnimated constraint system Vertex key framing for morphing, with controlling sliders Edit and create new blendshapes from existing targets Character animation pose editor andAnimated deformers (Lattice, Curve) 'Ipo' system integrates both motion curve and traditional key-frame editing Audio playback, mixing and editing support for sound synchronisation Timeline offers fast acces to many playback functions, autokey, help markers Feature 4: Realtime 3D/Game Creation * Overview of Features * Click Here to see a car simulation game created with this animation software Graphical logic editor for defining interactive behavior without programming Collision detection and dynamics simulation now support to Bullet Physics Llibrarly. Bullet is an Detection and Rigid Body Dynamics Library for games used by PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, XBox360 Shape types: Convex polyhedron, box, sphere, cone, cylinder, capsule and static triangle mesh with auto deactivation mode Discrete collision detection for RigidBody simulation Support for in-game activation of dynamic constraints Full support for vehicle dynamics, including spring reactions, stiffness, damping, tyre friction etc Python scripting API for sophisticated control and AI, fully defined advanced game logic Support for multimaterials, multitexture and texture blending modes, per-pixel lighting, dynamic lighting, mapping modes. Support all OpenGLTM lighting modes, including transparencies Playback of games and interactive 3D content without compiling or preprocessing Feature 5: 3D Editing & Compositing * Overview of Features * Click Here to check out a video of an exceptionally rich 3D landscape Compositor tightly integrated and aligned with the rendering pipeline Composite nodes souch as Render Result, RGB Curves, Mix, Hue Saturation, Alpha Over, Z Combine, Normal, Vector Curves, Filter, Blur, Vector Blur, Color Ramp, Time Preview panel to define the portion of interest. A composite then only happens on this part Threaded and memory efficient Near realtime sequencer can edit hours of video with Waveform and U/V scatter plots Open and write many audio & video files Can render using frameserver-support directly into foreign applications Supports float images as well as regular 32 bits images Curves tool allows you to create a mapping from the float range to a displayable result (for HD images) Feature 6: Enhanced 3D Rendering * Overview of Features * Click Here to watch an amazing demo of water fluid motion! Very fast inbuilt raytracer Oversampling, motion blur, post-production effects, fields, non-square pixels Tile-based and fully threaded Render Layers and passes Render engine tightly integrated with the node compositor Halo, lens flares and fog effects Vector motion-blur post-process effect (using node compositor) Edge rendering for toon shading Interactive preview rendering panel in any 3d view Ambient Occlusion and Radiosity solver Integral support for the famous Yafray render engine Export scripts available for external renderers such as Renderman (RIB), Povray, Virtualight, Indigo Feature 7: Complex 3D Shading * Overview of Features * Click Here to watch actual footage of 3D Shading in action! Diffuse shaders such as Lambert, Minnaert, Toon, Oren-Nayar, Lambert Specular shaders such as WardIso, Toon, Blinn, Phong, CookTorr Node editor for creating and mixing complex materials Material previews rendered by main render engine Tangent shading to give any shader an anisotropic effect Versatile procedural textures system Environment maps Normal maps Feature 8: Interactive 3D Rigging * Overview of Features * Click Here to watch an amazing demo of water fluid motion! Fast skeleton creation mode Mirror editing (bone creation and weight painting) Fast envelope based skinning Interactive 3D paint for vertex weighting Bone layers for better rig organization B-splines interpolated bones Constraint stack for IK solver setup and other constraints Feature 9: Realistic Physics & Particles * Overview of Features * Click Here to see a video that demostrates the physics of Blender Particle system can be attached to any mesh object. Control methods include weight painting, textures, curve guides, wind and vortex effects. Particles can be deflected by moving geometry Hair strands can be created by a static particle system, supporting all particle control methods Fluid simulator with fully animated inflow, outflow, obstacle and fluid objects. Gravity and viscosity settings can also be animated. Supports vector blur and is integrated with the particle system Realtime soft body solver integrated in mesh, lattice, curve and text objects. Supports collision detection and particle field effects like Wind or Vortex, soft bodys can also be baked for faster playback/rendering Game engine rigid body physics can be easily baked into animation curves

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