Hi!
A long time ago I dabbled in 2d bone animation using Moho so I have a bit of experience about the workflow of chopping parts and putting them together for animation. However, since then I abandoned 2d drawing, I was not very good and got frustrated at how slow I improved. For that reason I got into 3d, specifically Daz, Character Creator, iClone, etc. Still, I'm very interested in animation but my Daz characters often use a lot of grafts (reason why I still haven't delved too much into CC4 or iClone8) and Daz is just awful for animation. So, I was wondering about using 3d still renders to make and animate characters in Cartoon Animator 5 but looking around I can't really find anyone doing it, be it CA5 or any other 2d animation app. In my head it seems like a decent, quicker option than learning full 3d animation on Blender but it kinda worries me I can't seem to find anybody doing it.
Is it because it won't look good? Much like how you need to draw things in a certain way I'd imagine you'd have to render things with certain lighting and poses to make it look good, but I might be wrong and it always will look bad? Or am I just bad at searching and there are people doing it?
Anyway, I'll be grateful for any overall feedback about this :)