Top 3D Animation Trends in 2021
Nobody can deny the fact that “Animation is the best choice to convey the creative ideas to the prospective people”. A clear and detailed animation will explain the story in a more engaging way. In this competitive world, animators are coming out with brainstorming new innovative techniques to outstand in the industry.
The advancements in 3D animation created a new era of the animation field, includes virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, live character animation, etc., and their applications revolutionize every field. Let us explore the new trends in 3D animation.
Virtual Reality
Virtual reality is a computer-generated simulation in which one can interact with a fictional three-dimensional environment using special goggles with a screen. It allows the users to realize and feel as if the real world around them.
It is extensively applied in diverse sectors such as Military, Medical, Education, Sports, fashion, etc. Especially, VR plays a key role in providing surgical training and education to the novices. Also, it promotes mental health to the prospective patients who feel depressed and make them interact with an artificial three-dimensional environment.
The applications of virtual reality intensify and demand grows in the upcoming years.
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is an interactive simulation that connects both virtual and real worlds. In other words, real-time interaction with a virtual world. It enhances the attributes of real-time objects or images as well as users can interact with them in a virtual three-dimensional world.
Have you ever wondered about the games Pokeman Go, Jurassic Park the game, Harry Potter? These games are developed by applications of augmented reality. Like VR, Augmented reality is widely used in numerous fields such as Medical, Automobile industry, Television broadcast, architecture, IT, Retail etc.
Still, some of the applications of augmented reality are under exploring and ever-growing technology in the future.
Live-action with animation
Live-action with animation combines different types of animation and live-action on one shot. Have you ever watched the documentary “Life”? It’s a combination of both animated and live-action footage.
Generally, live-action with animation is used for tv advertisements and product promotions. In a single scene, different styles of animation can be introduced. Live-action with animation is the best choice to develop the brands. Run campaigns with animated videos on multiple social media platforms.
Surreal animation
Surreal animation is mainly for creating fantasy stories with abstract. Mostly it’s used for entertainment purposes. If you’re a fantasy lover, the best choice is surreal animation.
The uniqueness of surreal animation involves the characters with fictional features, like making the character moving in impossible ways, stretching the hands beyond the natural limits, etc. Also, it is used for meme styles and branding the products with animation campaigns.
Thin lines
Thin lines is one of the most modern animation trends in 2021. Thin lines are used to make an outline of the shapes, characters, objects, etc. The animations are designed in a single thin line, nonscalable weight, and make the sketches animated as if they drawn.
The thin line usage for animation gives a flawless, trendiest, sophisticated style. Since it convey the exact message to prospective people, thin line animation is used as a powerful marketing tool.
Unusual storytelling
Well, it’s a known fact that a storyline plays a vital role in animation. The crucial part is engaging the audience with the story. If the story is delivered in the usual way, the concept will not reach more people, maybe boring to the prospective audience. So animators come with different ways of storytelling, rather than following the traditional ways.
Unusual storytelling includes broken text as characters, floating characters, combining 2D with 3D, etc. grabs the attention of people as well as triggers the feel of the target audience.
A mind-boggling story with a blend of short-time animation is the perfect choice for branding. As it is convenient to share on multiple social media platforms,3D animation is a potential marketing tool.
Psychedelic animation
Psychedelic animation is a kind of surreal, trippy, colorful, that lifts up the feel of prospective people. It combines adobe photoshop and creates a splendid animation to share with the world. It turns the simple images into retro-ultramodern art and captures the emotions of the audience.
Young animators are interested to create psychedelic animation to attracts their audience and make more followers on social media.
