Difference Between Animation And Traditional Animation

Animation comes in many different varieties and numerous unique art styles. It can be done independently or with a team, either way they take time and effort. Although, older forms of animation are becoming less and less appreciated as people are becoming more fascinated by live action movies, or Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) in general. As amazing CGI may look, traditional animation is being less appreciated. People are getting more entranced by the realistic looks of CGI and ignoring the intriguing style of traditional animation. In today’s cartoons and movies it rarely uses traditional animation because of the amount of time it takes to make one. Even though CGI is more modern and less time consuming, traditional animations shouldn’t be completely abandoned because the look the way it looks and tells a story is immersing, the process that it goes through it very detailed, and it allows a lot of creativity. One main distinctive difference of traditional animation and CGI animation is the way it tells a story. Disney’s movies Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Toy Story are 2 drastically different films that show on how different CGI and traditional animation are. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released in 1937 and is “the first animated feature to use hand-drawn animation,” (“History of Animation”). Toy Story was released in 1995 and is “the first fully computer-animated feature film,” (“History of Animation”). The original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs looks