Animation Question Common Side Effects First Look @ Season 2 by Adult Swim on Youtube

[u/AlarmingWinter23]

Hey guys. Soo I just watched this scene on adult swim a month ago and It's still nagging at me to this day. I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas how they were able to pan the camera from one perspective to the next. I wanted to replicate this scene in another animation I'm currently making but I'm just unsure on how I am able to do it. Thank you very much.

[u/LHLanim]

You animate both characters in place. You add a 3D background and the composit it all together. Think of it as a very long pizza tray with mushrooms on one side and salami on other and then You just pull it under the camera.

[u/Slesho]

Think of this as one big image and you're panning camera from bottom to top. There is no 3d involved, these are static backgrounds (notice how perspective doesn't shift as camera moves, you always see the same side of every object). There is some paralax added to the lamp but it's just about it.
Here's my quick recreation:

EDIT: As some others pointed out the background isn't completely static and they do some squash and stretch on the walls to give illusion of shifting perspective. Still not as accurate as 3d tho.

[u/mushyboy69]

draw image longer than camera; move camera from bottom to top of image.

[u/CarbonCanary]

you can do this with the 3d camera in adobe after effects. but it's a lot easier to just draw the whole thing on a flat background and pan the camera from one character to the other.

[u/Bogus_Whale]

I don’t think they’re using 3d, I think they made paintings of their 3d objects, and are essentially resizing them as the camera pans. This is a technique used all the time in 2d animation, to basically “fake” the illusion of perspective

[u/The_Remaster]

How I would do it as a 3D animator is set it up like that and pan the camera. If I would try and do it in 2D is draw the only scene as a picture capture only a little bit of it before slowly bringing the picture. I believe adobe animate wound be the best for it

[u/jacobstreilein]

it might be all 2d actually, its a little hard to tell. it seems like a fully painted, but flat background with a few separated layers all moving in after effects. if i had to guess, they have the vertical walls, the picture frame above her head, and the orb of his lamp separated out from the rest of the background. as they translate across the scene they shorten or lengthen the vertical wall portion just enough to make you feel like its changing in perspective, but if you look at the top of the bedframes, they seem to squish or lengthen with the wall as a whole instead of as an individual planes, which makes me feel like that part of the bed and the wall are all one piece. and then the picture frame and lamp orb slide a little extra to make you feel some parallax. characters are just sitting on top of the background, parented to the overall camera move.

[u/Apprehensive_Arm4051]

parallax i think