What other type of animation do you think will come after CGI?

If CGI animation stops being popular, what do you think will be the next type of animation to take over? Right now, it seems that they got motion capture animation, which is where live actors do various stunts that gets animated, but I don't know how far that would go (especially if there are certain characters whose cartoonish nature defines their personalities), so I think either they would start doing animation where they combine traditional or stop motion animation with CGI animation or they would bring back an older form of animation (such as traditional or stop motion animation).

Stick figures or shadow puppets.

Hmmm...it's possible, although not on a larger scale.

When I am old and gray, holograms.

Animated corpses.

Genetically created Living Toons a la Roger Rabbit.

Well we do have xkcd. :)

Adventure Time knock offs.

Smellovision.

4d animation

Since the fourth dimension is time, aren't we already in it? ;P

Not necessarily the end of CGI but Motion Capture could seem more viable in the near future.

edited 28th Apr '14 5:25:17 PM by Segaguycrazy

Stop-motion-capture.

Hand-drawn sprites printed out on cels that are cut out and pasted onto marionettes, which are then stop-motion animated, with the stop-motion animation being fed to a computer for motion-capture, after which the resulting images will be rotoscoped.

Time is a fourth dimension as in, we move in three dimensions of space and one way in time. If you think there are more dimensions of time and space than we are currently able to move in anyway. Whole fields of abstract math dedicated to that.

Like the likely falsified theory of the sun being the center of the universe vs (which comically was believed by the Counter-Earth guys who thought the planet was flat). People who did not have the ability to travel the world nor enough free time to do the relevant calculations would have said "Sure, its possible the heliocentric model is wrong but you can't prove it in simple language so who cares."

That'd be interesting, watching animation that moves both forward and backwards in time and maybe on thee axises of space with allusions to a fourth. But that's stuff we can't do yet. The real question is why no one has made a cartoon about flat Earth and Counterearth orbiting the sun in the center of the universe?

Nothing - unless hand - drawn makes a big comeback. Technology hasn't advanced that much just yet for CGI to simply phase out so easily. And even then...

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I have a feeling that hand drawn animation might make a comeback also, although they would probably find a new way to make traditional animation such as, using computers to animated hand drawn characters just like CGI, except with hand drawn characters.

...Here's hoping. Either way, Canada could use a good comeback like this, for example...

Two types of animation will appear. 1.) Some hybrid between 2D and CGI, and 2.) stop-motion animation using 3D printing. Studios are already trying to blend the line so they work together even better. Disney is experimenting with their Meander software that they debuted in Paperman. Sony Animation is leading the more cartoony movement in CGI and will continue to do so. I think everyone agrees that making a cartoon too realistic-looking does not work, so realism will only be used for a CGI character in a live-action film, like Gollum.

edited 29th Apr '14 11:25:46 AM by kyun

How about animation that's hand-drawn...by robots?

GOOD robots??

I agree with this. I can see in the future that many companies will try to start combining traditional animation and stop motion animation with CGI animation, therefore allowing more diversity to come into the animation industry.

Seconding Holograms. As well as robot puppets and reanimating the dead.

What I hope: Animation will eventually branch out and get more diverse, stop-motion and traditional animation (even if created digitally) will co-exist with CG. TV animation will become more diverse as well when a method is created that makes quality animation cheaper and easier to make.

What I fear: Either CGI will be replaced by some process that is more lazy and cost-efficient that we can't imagine yet, or people will get so obsessed with 3D realism in cartoons that eventually there pretty much will no longer be a difference between animation and live action (which will become increasingly reliant on special effects). As for TV animation, it will remain simplistic and thick-lined like the past 15 years.