Aniforms

An Aniform is a two-dimensional cartoon character operated like a puppet, to be displayed to live audiences or in visual media.

[1] The distinctive feature of an Aniforms character is that it displays a physical form that appears "animated" on a real or simulated television screen.

[8] Their relatively crude, two-dimensional forms and lack of locomotion was appealing primarily because of the illusion of human interaction in real-time with an animated character.

Their topical productions range from a live interview with an animated cartoon version of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016 to several animated series including: Showtime's Our Cartoon President, Paramount+/Comedy Central’s Tooning Out the News, and Comedy Central’s Fairview.

[11] Live2D also can be used to generate real-time 2D animations—usually anime-style characters—using layered, continuous parts based on an illustration, without the need of frame-by-frame animation or a 3D model.