2D Computer Graphic Animation

Towards the end of the 20th century Cel animation was beginning to die out as now animators were using  computers and computer related hardware such as digital scanners, digital cameras, drawing tablet to produce entire feature films. Computer animation uses the same principals and techniques used by traditional animation except the tools used to make these animations happen to be different. The backgrounds and drawings would be scanned into the computer, or drawn in if it's easier.

One of the first feature films to use computer animation was Star Wars created by George Lucas in 1977.

In 1990 the first member of the public was allowed access to the internet and as a result the World Wide Web came into existence this was soon followed by e-commerce websites that made use of an animation program called "flash" to create simple 2D animations. Many other programs have been around that create 2D animations but none will quite compare to flash.

ADVANTAGES - Increases the speed of development, there's flexibility thanks to digital images
DISADVANTAGES - Very sophisticated, Expensive, a lot more skill is needed to use flash.