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Computer animation is essentially a digital successor to the art of stop motion animation of 3D models and frame-by-frame animation of 2D illustrations.

Yet this option — creating human characters that appear and move with the highest degree of realism — continues to pose great challenges in 2d computer animation.

Disney is not releasing a hand-drawn feature film in the next two years, its CEO has revealed, but it could be that news of animation's death has been greatly exaggerated.