3d Animation facts

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Dick Van Dyke is a computer animation enthusiast and even designed 3D-rendered effects used in several of his shows

There is a Wolfenstein 3D clone where you play as Noah and put animals to sleep on the Ark. It is the only commercially released SNES game that was not licensed, and used a hack to bypass Nintendo's DRM.

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 28 of the best facts about 3d Animation I managed to collect.

1. In their latest film 'Kubo and the Two Strings' stop motion animation studio LAIKA used 3d printing for the Kubo character giving him 11,007 unique mouth expressions and 4,429 brow expressions, allowing for over 48 million possible facial expressions.

2. Roncalli, a German circus, uses holograms instead of live animals for a cruelty-free experience. Roncalli wanted to create 3D holographic images from projectors while filling the arena measuring 32 meters (105 feet) wide and 5 meters (16 feet) deep with 360° visibility for the entire audience.

3. A Christian game company licensed Wolfenstein 3D, turning it into the SNES game "Super 3D Noah’s Ark" by replacing nazis with goats and bullets with fruits. Throwing fruit at the animals doesn't kill them, rather they just fall asleep. Hitler was replaced with a bear.

4. Pixar's first animation 'Luxo Jr' was about their iconic lamp and his dad, 'Luxo Sr', and was sequentially the first demonstration of Pixar's groundbreaking automatic shadow generation in 3D animation (thus why they were lamps).

5. PETA launched a campaign against Nintendo after the release of Super Mario 3D Land, claiming that Tanooki Mario promoted the use of animal fur (namely racoon dogs) as clothing.

6. In The Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror VI" the 3D world Homer and Bart enter was created by Pacific Data Images (PDI), a computer animation company that would later produce Shrek.

7. The first YouTube video to hit 1 billion views, that has nothing to do with music is a Russian 3D animated cartoon about a little girl and a bear playing with a checkers piece

8. Disney Animation no longer produces 2D animated films because most of its directors wanted to do 3D animated films. Ed Catmull, President of Pixar and Disney Animation, said the directors should led by their artistic sensibilities, and shouldn't be imposed into only doing certain types of films.

9. According to the greyscale figure used for his hair-animation tests, the 3d model for Angus, Merida's horse from the Disney/Pixar movie "Brave", is anatomically correct.

10. An Amazing Skill of Creating 3D Animation Cartoons. I've spend almost 2 years in learning all these things.

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Mark Hamill and Nancy Cartwright were both in a bizarre 3D animated film called Rapsittie Street Kids

The 3D animated movie on Bhai Taru Singh Ji is finally coming out on 27 April! - source

There's a trilogy of 3d animation movies inspired on the works of H.P. Lovecraft - source

Transformation in the animal world - 3D Los animals

The animated movie Klaus is actually 2D and not 3D Rendered. - source

UI Design Course #2: 3D Animation in After Effects (2020)

The reason why i started to learn 3D modeling and animating.

Paperman (The short animation prefacing Wreck it Ralph) is actually a combination of 2D hand drawn animation with 3D CG.

Learned how to make video through Unity 3d. Get pngrecorder from git hub and use it to make animated movies fast without worrying about rendering time. Following video is made using Unity 3d in 1 day.

The first ever 3d animation was made in 1972

A single character in the BoxTrolls movie had 15,000 3D printed faces to then animate it in stop motion.