What is 3D?
3D is everywhere. But what exactly is it?
Having been a teacher for eight years, explaining “What is 3D?” comes as second nature to me. I have explained, countless times to students of all ages:
The different types of 3D that there are.
The different ways it’s been created.
The different industries that use it.
The ever-expanding opportunities there are to get a job in it.
It reels off the tongue, without a problem.
Trying to explain what 3D is, in an animation in less than five minutes, however, was a tad trickier. This was my first project set by MAXON UK when I started working for the company in January. MAXON makes the 3D animation software: Cinema 4D, which is used by thousands of people around the globe to create all manner of imagery - from stills for adverts and illustrations, to animation for TV and film, to product and architectural visualisation, to games, to countless other uses. I've been teaching and using Cinema 4D for many years, so although I'm new to working for MAXON, I'm no stranger to Cinema 4D or 3D. As so much 3D is animated nowadays, it makes sense to try and explain what it is and how it works in some kind of animation.
I needed to break 3D down into its salient points. What do people really need to know? And how quickly can I get that information across, without it taking too long? Well, here's my crack at it: