2.5D Animation is coming! (Patreon)

If you are following this page you know I've been talking about this for a while. 3D animations and 2D artworks have their unique pros and cons, and neither can replace one another. Currently if you look at all the 3D games that are trying to simulate that 2D look... just don't look good enough. I have yet seen anything 3D animated that can preserve that unique painting style of 2D artworks properly. It would be a real dream to fuse them together.

There's something called Live 2D, but it's just okay. The motions seem very unnatural - just look like a 2D paper doll moving. There's no way to create a scene with complex movements and changing camera angle / lighting. It is also too labor intensive - it takes hours of hard work to get a little bit of animations. Finally, I think that day for 2.5D Animation is approaching. While it's still far from perfect, using AI to animate a still 2D artwork should be the way to go. Here's a sample made from a visual novel scene in the full version.