I just saw your post about how there’s cgi in a lot of animes nowadays and while I get that they use cgi, I don’t get how in the hell they induce cgi within 2D animation ._. by any chance do you have a way of explaining that ?? cause I’m confused and I feel dumb lmaooo :’))

I’m rather curious cause that would explain how so many animes are coming out within a short timeframe and because of that a lot animators and such are overworked :( I just want a clearer understanding of how cgi works in that industry cause it sounds interesting but also confusing :’)

OO okay i'm not TOO educated about how it works but from what i remember reading somewhere mappa uses cgi but also rotoscoping and draws over them to make their animations more lifelike. sometimes they can make the model base and draw over it to save time on say figuring out the movements by hand drawing in each frame.

for rotoscoping, it's super noticeable in the opening/ending animations for jjk, aot, and csm and why people think they "look like movies"

this is just based on shows that I've watched and im sure there's plenty other shows that used cgi but ill use AOT as one of the bigger examples. the most noticeable cgi moments were even under WIT studios specifically with certain titan animations (i think rod reiss's titan was a very obvious one) and some scenes where the scouts are riding altogether with their horses in s3

the fight scene with eren and the Warhammer titan was CGI too, looks very 3D and not as like...flowy/fluid? (at least on first release, not sure how the DVD/blue-ray ver looks now) the movements come off a bit stiffer, things kinda look wonky whereas if you use like...levi's chase scene in s3 it's SUPER fluid

my personal problem with it is that 2D animation just looks a lot more fluid and natural, but with the CGI that's used in anime specifically it doesn't look as good IMO. granted hand-drawing 2d stuff takes literal MONTHS and is tedious as hell (i.e levi's chase scene...i think that took like 6months?? it's no wonder they used more cgi on other stuff in s3 to make up for the lost time)

i'm actually not exactly sure what kind of programs they use for CGI for anime specifically though, I'm just familiar with companies like Pixar/Disney/Dreamworks who all pretty much use Maia... IDK hopefully this KINDA helps? i think if it's still hard to tell what could be CGI and what couldn't..just think of like anime video games where the models look super 3d compared to the anime counterpart, which would be 2d! omg this is all over the place but hopefully some of it made sense LOL dfglkjdfkljg