What Is the Difference Between 3D and 2D?

Generally speaking, 2D online games are flat games. Compared with 3D online games, it is impossible to change the perspective, games with low configuration requirements, and easy and fast movement.

2D

(Animated)

Here's a story: A computer company employee visited a computer merchandise show and he walked into a manufacturer's booth. The manufacturer's 2D animation software is doing a good job, but the computer clerk seriously asked the software manufacturer: "Your software is 2D, is it? If I can get 3D, why do you want 2D?"

There are many answers to this question. As with videos and movies, there are far more 2D animations on the Web than 3D animations. The richness of 2D animation is a legacy that talented artists and talented cartoon characters have accumulated over 80 years. In comparison, 3D animation has only been used by desktop computer users for about 10 years. There are hundreds of feature films produced by unit animation, and thousands of short and long cartoons. However, so far, there is only one full-length 3D animation and a few 3D short films worth mentioning. However, it is strange that there are only a few excellent professional software for making 2D animations, while there are many for 3D.

2D is also called flat graphics. The 2D graphic content only has horizontal X-axis and vertical Y-axis. Traditional manual comics and illustrations belong to the 2D category. Its three-dimensional effect, light and shadow are artificially simulated. Two-dimensional rendering software such as Photoshop, CorelDraw, Painter and other FLASH are flat animation software.

3D is not necessarily better than 2D, it's just new. They attract the attention of many software developers, and these people are all attracted by the charm of Hollywood-style special effects. There is no doubt that the art of 3D animation has not been fully developed. For most users, it is just a science and not an art. Compared with 3D animation, unit animation is easier to understand and easier to complete in many aspects, but in fact, it relies mainly on the ingenuity of artists who have mastered traditional painting skills, and rarely rely on computers. For those who do not want to lag behind the Pentium II, it has less appeal.

However, 2D animation was not developed in the Middle Ages in Europe, nor was it just for students of sketch schools. Although it includes respectable and familiar artistic elements similar to unit animation, it also includes modern and sometimes surrealistic things, with digital timeline composition, rotation, transitions, and special effects, which have become television and animation The main pillar of film and television is also the pillar of the Web. Digital video editing tools are powerful animation tools in their own right. 2D computer animation technology makes it easy for those who have only basic graphic design skills to animate.

Even in animation studios with a long history, such as Disney, computers are an important part of today's scenes, and they are used at almost every step of the production, and 3D artists must at the same time have to Master digital 2D animation tools. In fact, each 3D movie or TV image is composed by the artist using 2D animation tools and technologies, so that a scene can be formed. For example, in the movie "Titanic", the magical movie special effects are made of 3D animation, and these 3D animations are synthesized from vivid 2D movies using 2D animation tools, making it look very realistic.

In this respect, it makes more sense to combine the art of unit animation and digital synthesis technology. Unit animation designers may say that they are not computer artists, and computer animation designers will argue that they are not unit animation designers, but in modern society, each discipline draws on each other. The best animation designers are Like a modem that translates between digital and analog data, it understands both aspects of the technology and can process pictures in both directions.

Although some of the tools mentioned here are high-end professional tools for animation and film design, in fact any tool for video and film can also be applied to web animation design, but you may want to compare the ratio, timing and picture quality. Make adjustments and coordination without changing tools and techniques.