Research Topic - 2D to 3D and Animation

This semester I plan on researching the uses and benefits of 2D/3D animation. Through this investigation I will be looking at the history of how 2D/3D animation came into the market of product design and how it has evolved to its current uses today. Some of my personal designs will also be animated to create user interaction with products that cannot be physically touched.

In some initial research into the field of 2D/3D animation I have found where there has been successful attempts of creating 3D images/animation from 2D photographs. Below are two examples of these attempts, one, an artists with with 2D photos, another is the research from Carnegie Mellon University, which shows how to create 3D images from a photo.