Cgi?

[Ericho]

As I look onto this site for the future of animation, it's a strange contrast between animation in the movie industry. In case you haven't noticed, every American animated movie is CGI, but I've been a big fan of this site for so long, it's like entering a different world of 2D animation. In fact, the only movie in the past couple of years that was 2D was "The Simpsons Movie" which was based on a popular 2D show. I raise this question, because I was looking at SecretAgentBob's flash, and he was known for starting out in 3D, but now he's in 2D. Seeing the success of flashes of his like "Ferrets" made me wonder if there will come a time where all flashes are 3D. Do you think we'll see it in, maybe five years or so?

While flash here is meant to be made by independent people who just want to have some fun (I mean with the frequency of sprites, it's clear many don't care about updating), I wonder if artists will be going more towards 3D. Updates in animation are a large part of their culture. When The Flintstones became so popular, it pretty much meant the end of animations being told in 7-minute formats, which is why Looney Tunes ended in 1968 (I think). Will Flash Player 13, 14, or whatever, make it mandatory to be CGI?

Another question I have is, why hasn't anime made this transition? In the Eastern world, animation is viewed more as art, but they don't seem to care much about "updating'' the styles like Western culture.

[EvanHayes]

To be honest i hope a majority of animation stays 2d. it just has its own type of feel that makes me all giddy inside :D

[Zuggz]

Huge movies can be 3d because with todays HD standards it can really look amazing.
Shows should try to keep with some 2d ones because sometimes it just fits better (family guy, simpsons, blah blah)

[SalterAnimation]

Nope because 2d has it's own little charm. It's just another style, not a lesser form of animation.

Leave 3d movies to the people of youtube.

[Ericho]

At 12/16/08 07:55 PM, SalterAnimation wrote: Nope because 2d has it's own little charm. It's just another style, not a lesser form of animation.

Yeah, it does. I'd also like to add that this is the same for games. Pretty much every video game series making the transition from 2D to 3D is subject to a lot of arguing, even to this very day. But I guess we won't have to worry about that either.