The evolution of the 3D computer animation compared with the 2D hand-drawn animation by the film language;

Hand-painted experimental animation is a main categories and creations form of experiment animation, it has strong affinity and appeal of art because of the form which painting with hand, its magic powe.

2D animation CASE tool is developed to build the animation base of engineering graphics through referring to automatic programming and computer aided software engineering, in view of the features of 2D animation engineering graphics.

However, animation market was almost occupied by 3D animation works nowadays, a number of animation company even got rid of their 2D animation department, it became hard to find the 2D animation work on the market.

This article analyses the artistic characteristic of three dimensional animation,and it states that three dimensional animation could not wholly replace the traditional two-dimensional animation.

This paper introduces the principles and types of animation, and emphatically expounds the manufacturing process of two-dimensional animation and corresponding processing software, the comparison of two-dimensional animation and three-dimensional animation, and the basic steps of manufacturing the two-dimensional animation, etc.