Drawn animation

What is Drawn Animation?:

Drawn animation is an image that is drawn directly on the reel of film using a number of tools, techniques, and methods to create animation. This skips the entire process of cel animation, photographing and video sequencing or the more modern process of digital version.

The advantages and disadvantages of drawn animation:

The advantages of drawn animation that it is easy to come up and create images when doing hand drawings with uses of a pencil and if they made mistake they could simply rubbed it out to fix it. The disadvantages of drawn animations that it takes time to draw the scenery and characters all in one frame and the drawings have to be similarly accurate to the one another  to  run the sequences smoothly when rolling on to film.

Drawn animations used in media:

The oldest Disney animation film, Bambi, Disney set up a small zoo at the studio with animals to let the animators focus on drawing the structure and movement of animals that could relate on the lines to produce each frame of the film including with facial expressions and child friendly design.  

Drawn Animation also can be used in the Music Media, for example the Music Video of A-ha's "Take On Me"  was produced by Michael Patterson who is an American film artist, teacher and a commercial film director that specialise in TV spots and music videos. This video was produced with the use of pencil sketch animation or live action combination called rotoscoping. It is a technique where a live-action footage is traced over frame by frame to give the characters realistic movements. There are 3,000 frames were rotoscoped and took 16 weeks to complete.

Experiment: 
In this experiment i've produced a life drawn animation based on my fighters from my martial arts club. This is where I could visualise and sketch every motion of the techniques performed in each frames took over 16 to complete. The frames are edited by the used of iMotion to produce the animation.