Is There Any Way to do 2D and 3D Animation in a Single Program?
Is There Any Way to do 2D and 3D Animation in a Single Program?Answer: Because 2D and 3D animation are rendered in very different ways–one in a two-dimensional space, the other in a 3-dimensional space–there are no software packages that wholly combine both. However, applications such as 3D Studio Max have recently developed plug-ins that can make 3D animation look 2D by imposing lines on edges and creating solid block shapes of highlights and shadows within a user-specified threshhold; this was possible in previous versions without the plug-ins, but was accomplished by tricky and unreliable adjustments to lighting and reflective properties of materials/textures applied to objects.
