Can you guess which film this is from?

[Paul Fierlinger]

3D or pure 2D?

[Klaus Hoefs]

2D mapped on 3D ??
From where did you pick it up ?

Anyway 3D - NPR (non-photorealistic render) is going on to look like 2D. There are many researches and projects in the pipeline:
One which is very promising is a Open-Source-Blender 3D -development done by a small group of artists and programmers.
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sketchy lines rendered from 3D object /Python scripting

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[Klaus Hoefs]

They seem to come close to 2D drawings style and watercolor but I am really curious about how this looks and feel when it is animated. And if it works will time savings really be a benefit ?

So here is another new tech from the pipelines, agTreeRender - a complete NPR-style render program which can be feed with any 3D.

A preview scene from Maryna Shchipak's ITFS Trailer “Skater” (2009)

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shortfilm love.leech.tomato (2007)

[Paul Fierlinger]

The painting is truly Michelangelo's first painting which he did when he was 12 or 13. It is a copy of some German painter. There was an article about it in the N.Y. Times and when I first spotted it, I thought, 'Just another one of a million of those stupid fantasy films that flood the Internet, only perhaps somewhat better executed'. I was shocked when I read the article to find out the whole story.

[Paul Fierlinger]

Anyway 3D - NPR (non-photorealistic render) is going on to look like 2D.

This is going to be interesting to follow. So it'll look hand painted and move 3D like... have you found anything animated with this?

[Sewie]

The painting is truly Michelangelo's first painting which he did when he was 12 or 13. It is a copy of some German painter. There was an article about it in the N.Y. Times and when I first spotted it, I thought, 'Just another one of a million of those stupid fantasy films that flood the Internet, only perhaps somewhat better executed'. I was shocked when I read the article to find out the whole story.

Any chance of posting the article? It's a great painting.

[malcooning]

Yeah, this aQtree is a very interesting system. The rendering engine is well made.
Tests show some really impressive results and some obvious, wooden results.
Thanks for the references Klaus.

[Peter Wassink]

here is the article

and this is the original german drawing

[Sewie]

Thanks!

[Klaus Hoefs]

Animated short done with aQtree-render:

D. Maas, T. Maas, T. Luft, P. Deidda, C. Lutz:
Love.Leech.Tomato
Animierter Kurzfilm, 2007
Trailer (14.1 MB):
[qt]http://www.brainpets.com/Films/LoveLeec ... r_H264.mov[/qt]

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Press Kit: logline, descriptions, screens... :
http://www.brainpets.com/Films/LoveLeec ... _press.htm

[Paul Fierlinger]

Such a dissertation paper on the making of three simple (really simple) scenes! So many people involved... because, of course, the result still has very much of a 3D look.The question of computers replacing 2D animation will in the end have more to do with solving the issues around artificial intelligence more than 2D-3D software technologies.

[oyonawa]

Hi Paul
It is nice that you posted this.
I was just reading this article this morning in the New York Times and actually I was thinking about making a copy of it with pencil on paper just to understand it because it looked to me a very complex image although I really like the composition of it and specially the square format. I think it is very modern.

And BTW Klaus the 3d simulation of 2d has been around a long time and probably the best platforms are Maya and Sketch and Toon for Cinema. The parameters and possibilities are endless but like always, anything that is alive will look 3d. It only works for unanimated objects, architecture, etc,...

And "love.leech.tomato" looks 3d completely. And also ...who cares how you make it if the result is whatever.

[Fabrice]

Nice Topic.

And BTW Klaus the 3d simulation of 2d has been around a long time and probably the best platforms are Maya and Sketch and Toon for Cinema. The parameters and possibilities are endless but like always, anything that is alive will look 3d. It only works for unanimated objects, architecture, etc,...

Even if it's for still images, it's interesting.