You guys are not getting my point. I just made the title "Traditional animation" but i just mean 2D animation where you draw by hand, whether flipbooks or using the computer with some 2D illustration program.

I"ve made plenty of flip books, and i can get results in like 10 minutes for example. a nice little animation that looks good.

Yet if you try to do in 3D, if you do'n't have camera animation it looks really static, if you don't get CORRECT camera animation it looks bad, and if you don't get realistic character movement than it looks plastic and fake.

If there was  a flip book program for Mac, where you can draw each frame and see the one before I can guarantee you i can create better animation than i have ever done in poser.

I"m not saying 3D is not great. I'm just saying 3D is not for everyone.