Ringling College of Art and Design is expanding its animation program in Sarasota by launching a dedicated 2D character ...

It had been a few days since I started playing around with turning Tomoru into a 2D character.Every day, I would say things ...

Mobile games live and die on their characters. On a phone screen, a hero has to be recognizable at thumbnail size in a store listing, readable in the middle ...

Japanese technology news source DigInfo News began streaming a video introduction to software developer Live2D's new system "Live 2D Euclid" last week. The software allows animators to render a model ...

D and VFX artist Swoon showed how to use the Normality plugin from Stefan Minning to create 3D lighting in a 2D piece.

A new piece of software just released from animation startup Midas Touch Interactive called Midas Creature is designed to add secondary animation to 2d characters – automatically. Midas Touch ...

Mario & Luigi: Dream Team spent three years in development because studio AlphaDream chose to render the characters in 2D pixel art and shade them to look 3D, while all backgrounds were initially ...

When producing a movie, music video, commercial or personal project, and the decision to use animation within said production is made, how do you know which type of animation to choose? To ...

With video game visuals looking more photo-realistic with each new generation, it’s hard to believe characters used to resemble flat, squared waffles not long ago. Let’s travel back in time a few ...