Benefits of Animated Movies vs. Live Action FilmIn terms of movies, I believe that animation is better than regular filmmaking, simply because an animated movie requires a lot more talent and skill than a standard film does. There are different styles used in regular movie production, and there are combinations of styles used in filmmaking. Most regular films use computers to digitally enhance parts, but mostly on a smaller scale, unlike the few major films that use computer graphics excessively.I enjoy watching animation, because it gives me a feel of what technologies exist today (even hand-drawn cel animation uses computers to digitally enhance coloration and lighting). I enjoy watching traditional live-action movies, because they relate the skill of filmmakers and directors, who can't really use digital technology except to enhance lighting and such. And I enjoy watching combinations, especially regular movies with fantastic special effects, because of my personal interest in computer graphics.However, I enjoy attempting to do animation, and computer drawing myself, so in my opinion, hand drawn and computer generated animations are a display of more skill and effort than ordinary, live action film. The field of animation goes back to nearly the beginning of the film industry, with hand drawn cartoons being filmed and played on TVand theaters. Different as they are, both types of theater share common features.In the early days of motion pictures, film quality was low, color and sound were virtually non-existent, and special effects were achieved using physical props, instead of digital enhancement. Thankfully, Filmography has moved a long way. A movie today is considered by more factors than story alone: to make a good picture, lighting has to be smooth, color and sound must be top quality, as well as having good actors and a good plot. It is nearly impossible for a director to get exactly the right amount of lighting and color in all shots and takes of a film. Digital enhancement allows fine-tuning and minor tweaking to enable a smooth transition between scenes.Character animation has been around since the beginning of the motion picture industry. Animation was always a special art, requiring a lot of skill and patience to accomplish. Animation only started to become really popular in the 1960's and '70's, with classics such as Disney's "Fantasia" and "Beauty and the Beast."What used to be a skilled art, requiring a lot of patience and painstakingly filming one frame at a time, has now evolved into a much more efficient system, in which frame by frame rendering is done by computer instead of by hand. An equally important art is film directing. Just as filming requires many shots and many takes before you get your "perfect shot," so too animating characters must be done in a certain fashion, must be done in a purposeful manner, so you get the same visual quality as in a standard 35mm film.35-millimeter film is accepted as the industry standard...
