Animation - Graphic Animation Technique

Graphic animation requires the simple use of 2D image which move on a plane frame by frame to create an animation. An obvious and well known practice of this style is globally known show 'South Park'.

At first the animation was simple piece of cut out colours paper sat flat in front of camera and moved frame by frame to create animation, since then it has been through many upgrade featuring the use of Adobe Flash and finally now Autodesk Maya and rendered out orthographically. The amount of time and money this saves now the process is much simpler is tremendous with added feature of a more appealing look.

This technique isn't just used for finished pieces though, you can create an very detailed draft of a higher detailed piece of work later to come, it could be used to present your ideas before hand as it's not that difficult.

To demonstrate the the difference from the image you see above I moved over to YouTube to find footage of the first ever South Park episode and trust me you can see the difference.