synthsin75 wrote:I don't think it is 3D. If you watch the video of the actual animation, you can definitely tell that it is separated into separate depth planes, aside from just not looking 3D.
You're right. I just watched a couple of the short takes and it is 2D. But that gun and a couple of other things look like 3D objects. Which could very well be.
This doesn't really concern this topic in general, but for that "naruto shippuden" image, you can see that the actual anime version is blurred (in ASP just raise the blur radius of the vector or image layer by something around 5).