🧵 Some ideas why 3D models cant never look like 2D anime.

Anonymous at Thu, 7 Dec 2023 04:35:35 UTC No. 966400

I'm starting to think 8-12 FPS with no interpolation, keyframing every frame and then simply using grease pencil to 2D animate some stuff like hands, face, hair, skirt.

To be a much superior method to animate HD anime girls, over doing it completelly with 3D techniques like Arcsys.

Anime girl faces are just too vital and crucial to get the 2D perfectly done.
That is just a waste of time to attempt to make a convoluted facial rig, over a 2D grease pencil face.

Same for their haircut.
Hands are also another key component to sell the illustion of 2D.

Skirts, simply because of their nature, require deformations that are unnatural to do with 3D techniques.

The rest of the anime girl body, such as her limbs, and shirt and shoes, are usually things that are of lower priority, and can easily be made as 3D toon shading smoth meshes.

But the previously mentioned areas, are usually stuff that the brain very easily picks as clue is a 3D model.