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I miss traditional animation.

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Zebediah:
If you need a good old-fashioned hand-drawn animation fix, find out if and when Song of the Sea is playing near you.

Should have won the Best Animation Oscar. Way, way better than Big Hero 6.

Schmorgluck:
I believe right now the Japanese are the best at mixing the two, although even Ghibli made the CGI aspects of some scenes a bit too obvious (I'm specifically thinking of the rosegarden scene in Spirited Away). They usually "paint" very well over CGI, and don't overuse them.

If you want to see a magnificient traditional animated movie, try "The King and the Mockingbird" by Paul Grimault and Jacques Prévert. It's a favorite of both Miyazaki and Takahata. The castle in the Lupin III movie "The Castle of Cagliostro" by Miyazaki was designed as a shout-out to the king's castle of that movie. Some years ago, studio Ghibli bought the rights for it in Japan, had it dubbed, and released it to theatres, just for the sake of getting this jewel known to their compatriots. I'm not even sure it wasn't a financial loss.

But reading further about it, it has been poorly distributed in English-speaking countries, apparently.

The Seldom Killer:
I think that with CGI, you gain certain capacities with detail but, and this isn't strictly necessary, loose the great variation in style. At the Thoughbubble Comics Convention a couple of writers and artists talked about the transition to the screen, either by live action or CGI and the consensus was that dropping the stylisation of the original format severely compromised the character of the work meaning you had to try and compensate in other ways. It rarely works well. After all, could you imagine seminal pieces like Black Hole, Maus or even Groo translating to CGI? Look at the work it took to bring The Snowman to the screen in a way that was true to the original work.

As good an excuse as any to link to one of my favourite animations, a brilliant combination of stop motion and animated works.

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=stY85ZF4cE8

Welu:
I love traditional animation. Something about how it can flow so smoothly hits my buttons. 3D can look amazing and the advancements for making such a tough task easier are impressive but holy shit I love this stuff.

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS_FCbQ-okM
Edit. Bonus clip:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=jViTte8VAzU

Thrillho:
Good God I love Gerald Scarfe.

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