

Not quite 2D, not quite 3D, somewhere in between… 2.5D. After that it’s possible to move a 3D camera through the scene to create parallax. What is 2.5D animation?įor those wondering what on earth 2.5D animation is… you take a flat 2D image, break it apart into layers, convert the layers into 3D planes.

Then one day a project comes along where ‘yes’… ‘you absolutely should’. Just because ‘you can’ doesn’t mean ‘you should’… right. Recently I had to breathe life into static images for a film project by creating 2.5D animation in After Effects and Cinema 4D.ĭespite developing skills in 2.5D animation for many years, rarely does a job call for this technique.
