Animation - The Ultimate Showdown!

I will always love Traditional the most. The rest of the styles just depend on how well done they are. Motion Capture worked brilliantly in The Polar Express, but I'm not usually very fond of it. Flash works well with TDI and Foster's, but didn't with Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi and a lot of other shows
 
Traditional (hand drawn never goes out of style and should also be respected) and occassionally:

  • traditional with 3d supporting fixtures.
  • traditional with live action.
Claymation, CGI and flash when done right.


Dont really like rotoscoping since all they are doing is turning a film into something from flash or illustrator. Plus it works better with starwars anyway.

Dont the muppets count as animation?
 
I'd consider muppets stop-motion, if anything. Really, they are being controlled in real time - unlike claymation which is frame by frame. So it's not animation so much as costume.

And that'd probably be 'puppetmation' - but how many other films use that (recently)?
 
Traditional/Hand-drawn is the best to me. It feels like it has more soul that CGI. But really, as long as the animation is appealing and the story is nice, I don't mind. (I do tend to stay away from CGI though...)
 
Stop-motion is photographing a model, moving it slightly, and then photographing it again. It's right in the name!

Puppets are live-action, strange as it may seem.
 
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