The various animation techniques are:

(i) Traditional Animation: Traditional animation involved animators drawing by hand for each and every frame. It is creating the drawings one by one on the frame. 

Eg. Snow White and the Seven Dwarf Movie

(ii) Computer animation – 2D, 3D:

1. The famous mickey mouse was created using the 2D animation technique. 

2. The first 2D animation was called Fantasmagorie. It is a short cartoon made by Emile Cohl. It is entirely in black and white.

(iii) Digital 2D animation: 

1. Creating animations in the 2 dimensional space with the help of digital technologies is called digital 2D animation. 

2. Create 100s of drawing and animate them to show same kind of movement in technically called digital 2d animations.

(iv) Digital 3D animation: 3D animation models are highly realistic. They are used to create Short Films, TV Commercials.

(v) Stop-motion animation: Using frame by frame animation, physical static objects are moved around. 

Eg. Movie “The Teddy Bears”.

(vi) Mechanical Animations: Instead of robotics, machines can be animated by using the mechanical animation techniques. It helps the animator to understand how the machine works.

(vii) Chuckimation: Chuckimation is one of the popular animation techniques created by “Action League Now!” creators. It is the combination of stop frame animation and live shots, where characters are dropped into a particular frame.

(Viii) Clay animation (or) claymation: Pieces of clay are moulded to create characters and based on the imagination of the animator, a story is unfolded. There are oil based and water based clays available.

(ix) Typography Animation: Typography is nothing but font faces and letters and combination of text in motion.

Eg. Titles part of movie “The Atlantic”

(x) Sand Animation: A lit glass table is used as a canvas and the animator creates animation by moving the sand in certain directions.

(xi) ZoetrOpe Animation: Some still images are drawn on a drum and when turned in a circular way, we will get an illusion of movement.