The Grease Pencil provides 2d animation tools within Blender’s free and open-source full-3d pipeline. For a clearer idea of what this means, take a look at the end credits of Hero which shows in ...

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In the case of Blender’s tool, the production can now be rooted in actual 2d drawing techniques, while still taking full advantage of the technical possibilities of cg animation.

It's relatively accessible compared to 3D animation (see below) and it allows a lot of flexibility since almost any style of art can be used. There are various 2D animation techniques.