Current mood:

*sporfle!*

Animation is serious bizness
Please remember that these are grown men, some are old enough to your father and should be shown respect due to their years of experience and wisdom.

Over on the AWN forums Mr Mankind starts by posing a controversial question and softening the impact with his post Is 2D animation basically dead?.

It all starts nice and polite on the first page (I’m in there with my 2 cents). The discussion gets interesting and a good debate gets going on page 2.

On page 3 it gets serious. Mr Mankind is bemused by the reaction to his thoughts.

DrSpectre start to show his angst. As far as I'm concerned, 2D is a back-stabbing industry where ass-kissing skills combined with the ability to produce predictably mediocre results on a deadline will get you "in". Not a happy bunny.

We have a possible flounce.

Ken needing lip gloss was spotted here.

Mr Mankind posts some more cartoons that weren’t his. It’s total WWIII on page 6 before the moderator comes in and locks the post for further posting.

It’s short and so sweet.

Never mind – we have The Poll.

I just hope I don’t get banned for posting this.

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nekoama
2008-04-29 01:26 am UTC (link)

I should sign up that forum. I never get in any good srs bzns animation arguments.
On the actual argument, I've only been in the industry two years now, and 2D's far from dead. The only thing keeping 2D 'down' is budget - it's much cheaper to do computer based symbol/Flash cartoons, or 3D ones than traditional animation. But I don't even know how to start a 3D animation program and I'm doing fine for myself. And visually, CG's not 'new and shiny' anymore, so it's not being pumped out insanely to capitalize on it.
2D may not be at the top of the game anymore, but it'll never die. As long as animation as a medium exists, 2D animation will exist.

Plus, y'know, the American animation market isn't the only one out there.

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	black_spot 2008-04-29 06:18 pm UTC (link)
	You should. It’s quite interesting most of the time. www.animationforum.net is very nice, where everyone is lovely. Have you tried Blender? I don’t have the time to really work at it yet because I’m involved in a 2D project at the moment. You’re right about the US – there’s Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo on a Cliff about to be released this year. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nekoama 2008-04-29 07:08 pm UTC (link)
	No, I haven't tried Blender; since I'm not a big fan of the 3D I haven't even heard of it 'til now, so thanks! I have a lot of current free time until my next contract, so I'll give it a shot. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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