This document compares the advantages and disadvantages of three types of animation: stop motion, CGI, and hand-drawn animation. Stop motion animation requires basic resources like a camera, plasticine, and computer software. While time-consuming, stop motion models are easy to manipulate. CGI animation looks highly professional but requires specialized software and expertise. Hand-drawn animation allows full creative control but is also time-intensive and requires artistic ability. The document concludes that the creators chose stop motion due to its accessibility, their lack of drawing skills, and potential for a quicker process.

1. Advantages Disadvantages
Stop Motion The resources needed for stop motion animation
consist of a camera, plasticine, tools, a computer
One of the main issues when using stop motion
animation is the fact that is it too time consuming as
Animation and materials for sets such as card and pens. All
these resources are easily accessible.
the making photographing and editing all take quite a
while.
As the models are made out of plasticine, they Stop motion animation needs a lot of work when
don’t need to be perfectly made because of the editing. This is because all the shots have to be
style in which they are made and the fact they shortened to run smoothly and to make it look
need to be able to move. decent; transitions, tiles, sounds and much more are
The technique in which you have to make the needed to be added.
stop motion animation is easy to practise and Ensuringthat all the shots are done in one is vital as
easy to pick up therefore making our process the lighting effects each shot and also, the way angle
flow a lot more quicker as we won’t waste time in which the shots are taken must be kept the same.
on figuring out how to do something. But, this is very difficult to take many shots in one go
due to timing issues.
CGI Due to the way in which CGI animation is made,
the final product looks extremely professional
One main disadvantage about using CGI animation is
the fact that it is very complicated and would need
Animation compared to the other two types of animation.
With CGI animation, due to the way in which the
loads of practise due to the style in which the
animation is made.
animation is made on the computer, you are able Also, you may not have the required software that is
to create characters and settings easily, making needed which can be quite an issue to get hold of the
them look exactly how you want. correct software otherwise the animation may not
Also, for CGI animation, only a computer which is look as good as it should.
easily accessible and you can create the whole Lastly, creating the animation is extremely time
animation on this one resource. consuming because you have to be very precise in
every image you create.

2. Hand Drawn Hand- drawn animation can be a good way to
make an animation as you can make any image
Hand – drawn animation can be quite time
consuming when drawing the animation as
Animation look exactly how you want as YOU are drawing it.
Another reason is because of the way in which it
everything you want to happen in the animation has
to be well drawn.
is made, the animation appeals to any target Also, the animation may not look as good as it should
audience and in particular our target audience. if you don’t have the artistic ability to create the
The resources needed are mainly a pencil, animation, therefore it could look slightly
sharpener, paper and colours. These are all unprofessional.
limited resources which are all easy to get hold Due to the way in which the animation is created,
off. precision is important otherwise it may not look as
good and can look very unprofessional.
In the end we chose to do stop motion animation. We chose this because of many reasons. One reason is because we
all knew we couldn’t draw to a good enough standard and realised that with stop motion animation you don’t need
to be precise so the process could get done slightly quicker than the other two types. Also, we were able to gain all of
the resources and tools that are needed and we were even able to practise stop – motion animation in which we
found out that it was quite easy to pick up how to make models out of plasticine. We knew we had the software in
order to put the animation together which could either have been windows movie maker or imovie. The main issues
that we had to keep an eye on would be our time keeping, ensuring that we were keeping on track and trying to
make sure our shots were done at the same angle in the same lighting.