What is photography in animation?

There are two situations in animation about photography.

1. In stop-motion animation, you need to take pictures, and the scenes and even the characters built by the camera are all "shot one by one". Clay sculpture animation, puppet movies, puppets, paper-cut animation, sand sculpture animation and so on all belong to the type of stop-motion animation. Chicken Run, Corpse Bride, Scare on Silent Night, Super Invincible Dog, Two Generations of Love, etc. are all stop-motion animations, which are shot by the camera frame by frame, not drawn, and are very different from hand-drawn animations. You can search for stop-motion animation or frame-by-frame animation (two names) to find out.

2. In traditional hand-drawn animation, the animator first draws the animation on the drawing paper, and then draws the lines under the drawing paper on the transparent celluloid. The celluloid with lines should be arranged according to the animation number, and then colored by the coloring department. Then cover the transparent celluloid on the background of the scene painting, and then give all the finished products to the photographer to take every picture. The photographer wrote according to the previous painter. When the negative is sent to the printing company for development, you can see that the animation drawn by the artist becomes a 35mm frame in the film. At this point, the developed film only has pictures without sound, and the order of some pictures needs to be adjusted, so this is just a "pornographic film". Then post-production, dubbing editing special effects and so on. Of course, some film photography links are now done by scanners. Animation and background are drawn on paper respectively, scanned by scanner into computer, and finally synthesized and post-processed in computer.

In addition, correct your sentence: shouldn't animation be made by pure computer?

Large-scale two-dimensional comics are basically hand-drawn, and computers only do some post-processing.

Only three-dimensional animation is made by pure computer.

I hope it helps you. Thank you.