Animation

My favourite: I really cannot decide. The Fat Cat was really good, and so was all the others. Even the live action ones can be made really good, although I prefer staying away from that. I prefer when animation is smooth rather then very fidgety and jerky, although sometimes that can add to the aesthetic. All these styles all add up to create a different feeling, and I can't really criticise each, as many things are intentional, like messiness of animation leading to a fear of things acting not as they should, from the uncanny valley. The uncanny valley is much easier to reach with stop animation as the models are 3d. Tricking somebody a 2d image is truly alive is much harder, because it lacks that depth.

Drawing animation is also very useful, but it can be hard to show depth and life like stop motion can, although it is possible. Perhaps mixing the two could create something interesting. With drawn animation smoothness is much easier to produce because it is only 2D: one less dimension to worry about. The biggest problem with 2D animation is however drawing the characters as if they are 3D. Figuring out how that body works is quite tough, while with 3D we can see the whole model, which makes 3D movement much easier

A style I once saw did attempt to combine these types of animation, kind of, seen in "The Paper Man". Something about the style just hits a high note for me. I could watch it all day. The animators wanted to hint back to the old days of 2d animation, but wanted to use their software. So what they did is do it all in 3d and using some tools made it appear to be more like a drawing. The film personally really captures this, using all of 3d computer animation's potential, but making it seem 2d, making the 2d animations really impressive as they seem to be drawn not 3d computer animated.

Here's the video. Sorry for the annoying annotations.

Here's the link so you can watch it fill screen. https://youtu.be/1QAI4B_2Mfc



Turns out this is not the full film. At least you can see the style I was talking about.



Here's the whole thing, but at a lower quality. Best I could find on youtube.




Again not the full film, bot you see more then the last one.