1. Flip book animation is a very primitive way that creates animation purely with pencil, eraser and a stack of drawing pads such as Post-it pads. This style can be very experimental and creative as you can draw anything you can think of. Pros: It is cheap and readily available at all stationery stores. You can make use of your existing drawing skill and you can start almost immediately. This method gets you to churn out the rough idea you have for animation very easily. Cons: You have to be prepared to erase and redraw when you make mistakes because you do not have an undo button for this style. Adding in details such as color and shading can take up a lot of time because details have to be added on each page of your animation. Industry: Seldom do creative house creates flip book animations mainly because it is not easy to create quality flip book animation. As flip book animation is a very old technique, it is not efficient to create one. 2. Stop motion animation makes use of the figurine and physical objects to create animation. You can start with using toys and figurine and capture them as photo images. Once photo taking is complete, you use a video editing software to compile these photos into a moving image video. Pros: The visual of the animation will look relatively appealing if you are using toys because they look real life! All asset is physical and there is not much tools to learn other than pressing a button to capture the photo. Cons: Posing the toys frame by frame might be tedious and not accurate if the toys are not placed correctly compared to the previous frame. Toys posing to fly or jump can be tough too, so you need to be a little more creative in execution when it comes to creating stop motion animation. Industry: Occasionally we see movies created using stop motion animation. Corpse Bride is an example of stop motion movie. This is not a popular style of animation because of the cost and human resources to create frame by frame animation. 3. 2D animation is a digital method of flip book animation where visuals are created by drawing in a software. Drawing skills are preferably required but there are a lot more convenient tools within the software help you draw faster. Animation eventually will look much smoother because you can adjust the timing of your animation easily.
