3D Animation – An Exquisite World

The word animation is well known today. Almost all of us know animation at least as a layman, for whom this is a technique of creating drawings that look real and have some motions and effects blended. Concept board frames artist Sydney used updated software tools in their design.

Today, almost all the fields including engineering, gaming, movies, medical, advertisement, science, pharmaceutical, furniture and many more, use 3D animation to give a well curated format to their products and services.

The most fascinating part that makes 3D animation so popular is that, it provides a cheap and effective way to prototype, analyse and test a product design without any resources involved. Moreover, this computer generated model can easily be redesigned for any future changes required.

How is 3D animation done?

3D means ‘3 Dimensional’, where an image is animated considering 3 dimensions or axis x, y and z as length, width and depth. 3D animation is a more complex and expensive process as compared to 2D animation , where only 2 dimensions or axis x and y as length and width are considered. But, this does not mean that 2D is not popular. 2D animated videos and games have a different section of popularity.

For a more realistic looking character or model, 3D fits the best. The animators create each character from a mere concept to almost lively looking 3D model.The process of animation has following steps:

  1. Concept and Storyboards
  2. 3D Modeling
  3. Texturing
  4. Rigging and Skinning
  5. Animation
  6. Lightning
  7. Camera Angles
  8. Rendering
  9. Facial FX
  10. Adding Music
  11. Editing and final output

All these steps are performed one after the other and need precision perfection in looking hyper realistic.

Who does 3D Animation?

The beautiful looking 3D world is actually a result of adept and competitive 3D artists, animators or the modelers. The 3D artists are well learned people with in depth understanding of all the latest tools and techniques thus involved.

Whenever you see an advertisement with sparkling liquids, rotating soaps, flying objects or immediately appearing and disappearing effects, you get mesmerised and feel like buying that product. Well, the underlying truth is that you already know that this is all animated, but still it gets the inclination of your mind and this is the power of 3D fed in by the super talented 3D animators.

3D animation is the need of the hour, that attracts more and more attention and thus enhances the customer base of a product. Be it games, products, movies or services, 3D animation has really changed the way the mass media looks today. A great appreciation for this goes to of course the animators and 3D animation studios, that create this visual magic.