How 3DCG had grown

What's of interest here is progress towards seemlessly integrating hand drawn animation and 3d animation. 3dcg can't beat 2d animation at being 2d animation, but what it can do is make certain tasks less cumbersome and thus expensive. It's one of the reasons it gets used in mecha so much, lots of detail that you want to stay on model in the midst of action scenes.

user, you are thinking too small.

I am not talking about replacing 2D animation for the purposes of TV shows. I am talking about creating a 3 dimensional scene that you can freely move around in and that from every angle will still look 2D. I am talking about 2D IN 3D.

That's what I'm saying though. You're talking about 3D being able to look flawlessly like 2D, which I highly doubt will ever happen.

And not saying it won't be "good". If it's just about waifu-ing/porn some stuffs that are being done now looks already fine.

It's right in that article.
> 「サンジゲンでは、アニメーターが好きに顔をいじることを昔から奨励してきました。その結果、手描きアニメの『ゆらぎ』みたいなものを3DCGでも再現できればという期待があったからです。礼央子様の場合は特にそれが顕著で、話の後半になるほど、すさまじい表情を見せてくれるようになりました」（鈴木氏）。
youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=Nl-ZBNmAokI

Aside from that bug with the hand movement, left looks way better.

This picture is 100% 3DCG.

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I like the limited version better.

I wonder if they'd be able to emulate extreme poses and distorted squash-stretch for intense scenes

The problem with 3D trying to mimic 2D is that sometimes it looks too perfect, which leads to uncanny valley and feeling of "fakeness." I'd love seeing something like this done with 3D for example

Wonder if they'll ever be able to make bodies that looks great in 2D but terrible in real life more acceptable with this kind of realistic 3DCG.

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That's because of the concept itself of 2D and 3D. For one you draw every frames, while for the others you animate a model. So while the second can be more adapted for lots of stuffs, it can't copy a good exagerated animation made in 2D.

cause 60 FPS looks kinda unnatural
youtube.com/watch?v=Nl-ZBNmAokI

Well, we can at least have good faces now
youtube.com/watch?v=fMI_augunA4

youtube.com/watch?v=YrLnF7CQ8Ac

Live2D is pretty much another concept. It's much more 2D with a little bit of 3D.

this. sidonia damage on the robots was a selling point. imagine having to draw all the little scratches every single frame

depending of the style 3DGC is actually worthy
youtube.com/watch?v=1KDw481sojY

That 3/4 realistic style works really well. It manages to keep is slightly stylized with the faces while not making it looks weird. Good animation helps a lot.

Would like to see some "cool" looking female faces with it, both Reika and Anzu have puppy shinny eyes.

Shading is still very CG. There was a game a few months or years ago that blended 3D graphics with a 2D shader/render effect that was very pleasing. It did facial, body and clothing well (as designed by the physics engine), but hair behaved 'too realistically' for the often static nature of most anime characters hair. If studios could license or develop a system like this where they can just create new model/tweek physics on a per series basis I think they could do better CG based series with aesthetic people are looking for.

The hardest part would be developing the engine and training the animator/filmer in their use. Heresy to talk about 3DCG in a positive light, but if they could get this and have 3D animators (which there should be fucking thousands of) production quality in some series could improve tenfold. It's not like there would be no room for hand drawn/current digital work, but that use the tech to streamline, speed up and improve the quality.

VR will be beautiful.

It works for 'reality' set works. Their mouths still seemed plastic to me, could just be the 'too perfect' skin tone/texture. That issue was mostly from the girls, the close up of the old mans eye was decent, wrinkled and dirty.

Dreamworks doing a proper action movie with grit when?

>There was a game a few months or years ago that blended 3D graphics with a 2D shader/render effect that was very pleasing

Naruto Ninja Storm?

asian have a very robot like apperance. It's easy to make it 3D.

Most white people have mongoloid characteristics and make it difficult to make it 3D

The advantage of 3D is it allows for the kind of action that would be prohibitively expensive and difficult to make in 2D.

See for example: the Naruto games.

Speaking of CGI, here's an interesting pilot film that was just released. Directed by Shuhei Morita, design work by Tatsuyuki Tanaka.

youtube.com/watch?v=TjSnFPKAEA4

That looked impressive. Those smoke effects were in 2D though right?

Yeah, looks that way. 1:19 - 1:24 also looks 2D.

>3D still take skills

I wouldn't really notice if I didn't know it was CG... but the area covering the lower nose to the upper lip does look a bit fake.

Other than that though...