Thanks guyyys great . thanks fot the responses.

Since i aim for simplicity and i want to make thinks fast, i was interested in

 

------>Exodus 3 from the web site http://www.tiradestudios.com/movies.html

It looks great. Now my question is though,

how do they keep zooming into the still pictures while the characters are animated using crossfade type of e ffect. Did they seperate the character and the background picture in seperate layers?