Good Bits of Hand Drawn Animation

Hand drawn animation is great. Brad Bird describes it best as a more personal connection between artist and viewer because you can see the human element in the brush strokes of the background design and the line art of the characters. Small details like that make it really human because you can connect with the animator who acts out the character when they draw them.

With 3D digital, the sets and characters are never touched by human hand and it can seem more mass produced and LESS personable and authentic.

Hitman: Hiding in Plain Sight (Harry Partridge)

Prince of Egypt (1998)

It's easier to stretch and exaggerate characters to make them cartoonish using traditional animation without having them slide into the uncanny valley. There's no technical 3D software and rigging to work around which makes this much harder in 3D. Animators have the visual freedom to scribble scenes to give the illusion of speed, to apply unique brush strokes for a fresh style, and to change things about the set and designs really easily.