Fluid iPhone Animation ala Plants vs Zombies

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Published on 2010-05-16T00:27:53Z Indexed on 2010/05/16 0:30 UTC
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If you've played Plants vs Zombies, you've seen how fluid and remarkable the character animation is. Can anyone assume how they are doing this? They don't seem to simply be animating bitmaps; the animation is too crisp, even as characters rotate and scale. The artwork looks vector, but I can't imagine that everything is drawn out using Core Graphics. Any ideas?

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