Since I've been doing animation, the argument of 2d vs 3d has been brought up to me. I pretty much always had just one view that worked for me. I didn't care as long as it is good. I honestly don't see much of a raging battle going on. The problem is people's view of animation in general. Well, not even people, it's the damn media presenting us this idea that 2d animation is dead and CG is the TAKING OVER. I always pretty much looked over this kinda thing, because honestly, I just like stories. I like telling stories animated, film, or written.

In essence, animation is caricaturing life. 2d or 3d. And what really matters if the STORY. STORY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER. STORY STORY STORY. Animation is just a medium to project the story, no different than film or comics, or books. The reason people say 2d is dead is because the last 2d animation features(in America) weren't that great, and weren't marketed well enough. The studio's ran away saw that 3d animation was getting successful, so put their money where THEY SAY the future is.

But those 3d movies weren't successful because of the fact they were 3d, it's cause they had AWESOME STORIES AND PLOTS AND CHARACTERS THAT SUCK YOU IN LIKE ANY GOOD MOVIE. To be honest, i I have a bias against 3d animation. The problem with it for me is that it just looks like a video game. So I always associate it with a video game. And even when 3d animation is done super duper well, it just looks like excellent stop motion animation. Speaking of stop motion, it's amazing, go do it.

Also I hated the Simpson's movie. It just wasn't that funny(though that is slightly irrelevant).

With the people read this are like, YOU'RE DUMB 2D ANIMATION IS GETTING MURDERED BY 3D.....actually that probably wont happen here since this is NEWGROUNDS...but anyways, it's like this. Look at Broadway, ya know, theater style things. Movies come along, and Broadway shouldn't exist anymore because they can do the same things except movies can be shown to a much vaster audience. Movies didn't have to rely on the actors or anything once it was done. It was just a reel, that was editing and ready to show why plays have the entire cast and crew that need to be perform. For a movie, you just need a projector and the reel. Why does Broadway/theater still exist even though movies are clearly better [not really] for what the purpose is?

Easy to answer. CAUSE IT ISN'T ABOUT THE MEDIUM CHOSEN TO TELL A STORY. It's alllll about the story and the way it is presented. Given, Broadway and theater is struggling recently with crappy plays based on movies and tv shows(...Spamelot anyone...it might have been good, but it was just the movie Camelot on stage). It is an experience seeing something. Theater is an experience, and I hope it never leaves cause it's badass(yeah, i called theater badass, wanna mess?). Movies are a diferent experience( though now with bootlegs and people waiting for dvd's the entire movie experience is going away which make Nate sad(Nate being me))

Photography comes along and should knock painting out of it's place? But people still paint! It is something different, a different experience. Good art doesn't die. Good stories don't die.

Anyways, 2d vs 3d, no battle going on. It's a matter of studios putting their money where the money went. That's why we are now seeing a string of bad 3d animated movies. They are trying to replicate Pixar's success. Pixar is successful because IT ISN'T ABOUT THE ANIMATION TO THEM. They don't make movies thinking, HMM LET'S MAKE REALISTIC WATER IN THIS MOVIE, NOW LETS COME UP WITH A STORY THAT LETS US DO THAT. NO! They don't do that! And tsk tsk to anybody who does that. They do what any good writer does when coming up with a story. They write it, then critique it, then rewrite it again!

I just love stories. And PEOPLE just love stories. The media likes to create battles that don't exist. The people running companies that give out the moneyz to make moviez follow where success has been. Thats why we see movies that are all trying to be epic like Lord of the Rings. Which led to the MEGA flop The Golden Compass(look it up, huge budget, nobody saw it, though I did have some friends who were excited about it). That's why 2d animation stopped being made(tsk tsk at Disney for using Dreamworks to animate the 'Disney' princess animated sequences in Enchanted).

Yeah so all in all, no battle. Just the studios stopped funding it cause they had bad turnouts. Good stories make good movies. Good marketing also makes success.

Yeah, so...yeah...?