Where Cinema 4D falls flat is developing the look. The camera in Cinema 4D is a joy to use and a lot more versatile than the one in After Effects. I got lucky with the river scene which I managed without Cinema 4D.Īdding basic 3D geometry in Cinema 4D helps provide depth and parallax. However the process is incredibly fiddly and results can sometimes leave a lot to be desired. Both have their strengths and weaknesses when should you choose which?Īfter Effects is a fantastic tool in combination with Photoshop’s ‘Vanishing Point’ plugin to quickly spit out 3-D geometry from a still image to be animated. After Effects vs Cinema 4Dīoth After Effects and cinema 4D are very capable tools when it comes to creating 2.5D animation. But the light at the end of the tunnel is seeing the flat image magically come to life. It’s certainly time-consuming and frustrating. The hardest part of the 2.5D animation process is breaking apart the layers in Photoshop and assembling them in 3D space. 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.
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