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Why is 3D Animation Becoming more popular than 2D Animation?

A couple questions: 1. Why is 3D Animation Becoming more popular than 2D Animation? personally I find Some 3D Animation to be to much for the eyes and it is less memorable than 2D because i feel that it overloads your mind and it is to hard to tell what is going on. Or do you feel that they are the same? 2. What is a good 2D animation program that includes a manual? 3. Can you do a mix of 2D and 3D animation? (I've seen a japanese anime that was 2D but had 3D elements) 4. Was the movie "Chicken Run" done in 3D animation or Claymation? 5. Why do apomorphic animals never get old as subject matter? I am a graphic design major YOU DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER ALL THESE JUST WHICH EVER ONES YOU LIKE I APPRECIATE YOUR OPINIONS :) THANK YOU!!!!!!

Public Comments

1. think chicken run was a 3d animation in a claymation style
2. 1. I think 3D has become really popular simply because it's relatively new and you can do a lot of impressive things with it. I still love the old school 2D animated movies, tho! I've heard that Disney is going to do their next "princess" movie in 2D. I think it's going to be a retake on the classic "The Frog Prince". 3. I guess you answered your own question there, eh? 4. Claymation. I love that movie.
3. This is an interesting question. 3D animation is, in some ways, to 2D animation what sculpture is to painting. Artists of all kinds have to think about these questions. It comes down to the depiction of space, and forms in space... but with animation, the final result is still on a flat surface. The sculptor Giacometti used to wrestle very hard with depicting figures in space in his drawings. Making a sculpture allows a person to put the form into the space directly; making a drawing or painting forces a choice of how much depth to depict (and how to go about it). With animation of all kinds, of course the huge difference from still art is in the motion-- but it is still just a series of pictures. I mention all this not so much to provide a simplistic answer as to open the door on how many different considerations are involved in animation. Lots of people just say "oh, cool" and proceed to throw every gimmick there is into their animations, losing sight of the overall artistic intent. Enjoy your studies!
4. 4. "Chicken Run" was claymation (or stop motion) done by the same British animation house that does the Wallace and Gromit movies. 2. There is none that includes a manual (and I was just at Autodesk today). 3. Yes. 5. Anthropomorphic animals have been popular in Western Culture since Aesop. That was Classical Greece. Uncle Remus has been a conduit for transmitting African animal tales to America through the gullah culture. 1. Among the reasons I have heard for 3D animation becoming more popular are that it is easier to heirarchialize and that the cost of entry, up to now, has provided such a barrier to young talents that it has perpetuated a monopoly of the big studios without attracting the feds attention. I actually believe those. I'm also told, of course, that it is less expensive once the system is set up and that people want to see that sort of style. This last I don't believe, of course, not because I know people who care whether a film is animated traditionally or with computers (I do, but not many) but rather because of the broad variety of styles which are presented with three dimensional animation.