I'm curious if anyone knows the type of software used for such works as Futurama or the Triplet's of Belleville. I know they use 3D software for all their character manipulation, however it still retains the feel of a hand drawn 2D style. I'm looking into creating a few short films and would like to use software to help save time, but I don't want a 3D film. Thanks very much.
Both 'Futurama' and 'Triplettes' use 2D for the characters; only the backgrounds and certain elements -like the bycicles or the van in Triplettes- are done in 3D. For 'Triplettes' they used Lightwave for the 3D elements, and I believe they used Toonboom or USAnimation to ink and paint the 2D stuff. No idea what package they used for Futurama, but most packages have decent toonshaders available nowadays.
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For sure Futurama uses Toonz for 2d animation, compositing and some special effects, including particles.
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