Even though graphics today might appear to be mostly 3D animation, 2D animation is still alive and well, and a growing industry. 2D is used in all sorts of applications, even today. Game ...

Now streaming on Netflix, a behind the scenes glimpse at “The Little Prince” released on Tuesday shows how the film uniquely fused together four different types of animation: hand drawn 2D ...

That does not always work well, so Weng and co try a different approach. Their idea is to map the body-shaped mesh into 2D space and then align it with the 2D cutout using a warping algorithm.