When did you realize you'll never get as good as you wanted

Wrong board? That's 2D.

Also,
>aspiring to be as good as some shitty korean animu phoneapp advertisement
anon, you can do better.

>>560610
That's a cel-shaded 3d model as far as i can tell.

>>560612
It's After Effects puppetry. Look at the elbow and the way the fingers deform. The elbow is the most obvious, because the shading moves with it since it's on a different layer.
The shoulder to the upper arm deforms as I'd expect AE's puppet tool to, as well.
Look at the way the belt around her chest stretches and contracts. Meshes don't do that with standard rigging.
The 2.5D effect is done with a plugin called Mettle Freeform Pro, to give the illusion of depth.

League of Legends uses this same system in their loading screens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bXtXtmRwdE

>>560613
Yeah, LoL uses that technique, now that you've mentioned it, it's actually pretty obvious. Thanks for the explanation.

>>560609
>2.5D
lmao