The history of animation is the development history of people’s exploration of light and shadow.It originated in the 17th century，and its pioneer was atanath kocue.The first film in the history of animation to make inanimate objects illusory by means of the technique of motion capture was short and fat.Albert came up with the idea.E.Smith.His little daughter’s circus toy conceived the image of acrobats and animals，then shot with the method of case by case shooting.The server，though he was very humble but it is a human invention.This humble server has evolved into the Internet that we all use now，which also provides more knowledge and choices for animation.Of course，traditional hand-drawing is also a method of animation.Even with advanced technology，many masters and original painters choose to create by hand on the transparent writing board.Below I will introduce the advantages and disadvantages of these two painting methods.
　　Computer painting is one of modern animators’ favorite ways to make and one of the most popular.Computer painting is the choice to use the board drawing method to draw，through the hand drawing board and the computer’s connection directly presents the picture to the computer is more convenient than your hand drawing simple.You can use software to color your painting or make it move.Such as photoshop，Adobe After Effects，animation and so on Adobe software to do this is very good choice and very professional software.The software will save you a lot of trouble，you can quickly complete your animation，such as use the paint bucket color or use AN and AE frame shaft can be used to help you to complete movement and action of the characters，expression and so on.Computer painting can use software to make 3D and 2D animation easily and quickly.You can also use these painting software at the same time.In modern times，there are many animations created by computer painting，such as Despicable Me and Frozen etc.There are also many well-made 3D animations in China，such as the return of the Monkey King，etc.Computer painting has helped Chinese animation progress in a large part. But what’s not so good about using computers is that you can become so dependent on these devices that you can’t draw what’s going on in your head with your hands，because it doesn’t feel very good to draw with your hands as it does with your computer.Although you can finish it very quickly，many details will not be as good as you can draw it by hand.
　　Hand-drawn for the entire animation industry is also very important and influential.Before computer painting，animators could only make animations by hand.Animators will draw on a transparent paper on a diaphanous table，because the transparent paper can better see the changes of each action，so this paper is needed.Animators need to draw two keyframes and then overlap them and flip the two pieces of paper quickly to see what happens between them.Generally，hand-drawn animation will eventually be made into 2d animation.After the active artist has drawn the key frames，his assistant will scan the drawings into the computer for later coloring and so on.For example，the master painter of the lion king used hand painting to draw the main story plot，because he could better draw the main story line and the action of characters and characters.Although this traditional hand-drawing method is very time-consuming and inconvenient，you can draw your ideas better.Therefore，even though the computer painting technology is very high，many animation masters still choose the hand-drawing method.
　　Through the above introduction of computer painting and hand-drawing，we can know that computer painting and hand-drawing have advantages and disadvantages.Computer painting is more convenient and fast than hand painting，but hand painting is more meticulous than computer painting.Therefore，the use of these two methods has a lot of effect on the production of animation.
　　作者簡介
　　杨未然，女，民族：汉；籍贯：河北省辛集市；学历：大学本科；单位：河北大学；研究方向：动画。