I prefer animation to live-action

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I've long had a preference for animation over live-action, and where I like live-action it tends to be cartoony.

There are times when I go on YouTube expecting to find animation and see live-action instead (usually from advert), and it's like the live-action is harder on the eyes.

What do others here think?

It really depends on my mood.

I know I don't like it when they make cartoon characters into "live-action" characters. It just doesn't work.

I love animations.
I like the ones that are well done, that have high degree of detail and subtlety.
if it's a silly kids animation, I may still sit through just to watch and enjoy the animation part of the movie.

I can like or dislike animated or live action movies or shows, I don't have a specific preference. I use to like anime that I watched on Toonami when I was younger back in the day but didn't get into it beyond that but I know there is an extensive amount of it aimed at adults. I wanted to watch Cowboy Bebop again, I liked that show and it would be cool to watch in order now more than 10 years later. Disney animated movies are usually great, I'm not a big of the newer animation style since I like the traditional look and feel more but they've won me over with what they've done with it over the years.

I don't like cartoons much, with just few exceptions.

I prefer animation too. It's more appealing to look at. I don't mind live action but I think cartoon characters are more rememberable.

I didn't think much to the "real-life" versions of The Flintstones or Popeye. Very cleverly done, but the original cartoons are so much better, in my view.

I tend to prefer cartoons because the visuals are so much clearer, though modern filming technology is starting to close the gap. Sometimes on a regular movie with real actors and scenes, I can't see what things are, and I can't easily tell some of the characters apart unless they're really different-looking.

They're too vividly different mediums to properly compare, like trying to compare books with films. I can't say I've ever been in a situation where I was watching something live-action and thought "this would be better animated" or vice-versa, so I can't place a preference with either.

I've always been fascinated by animation and similar styles of entertainment like comic books and video games. I don't know why. A lot of it is aimed at children but I can still be absolutely engrossed in little details of it it like characters' expressions and reactions. I can dryly appreciate the artistry that has gone into something like a Wes Anderson film but it won't have the immediate emotional impact on me that, say, "Inside Out" did.

I don't know if the appear comes from the fact that character appearance and expressions are exaggerated in animation and are therefore easier for me to recognise than in live action. I don't know whether it is the fact that, often being child-orientated, the characters motivations are a bit simpler and easier to understand. It could be the vivid colours they use or the stylised nature of the world the characters inhabit. It could be the opportunity animation offers to break the "fourth wall" and to break down the rules of reality entirely and becomes surreal.

Whatever it is, I love it and I wish I had had the opportunity to study it and go into the field.

As a wise man (I think it was Eric Cartman) once said: "Cartoons kick ass".

What types of animation do you prefer?

I have a strong preference for Disney Pixar animation but not classic Disney or cartoons.

I also prefer animation over live action. I've never understood the needs of the movie industry to make cartoons into live action movies. It just doesn't look right. I'd also like to say that I like computer animated movies the best, such as Flushed Away and the Toy Story movies.

Speaking more on the live-action part, I've never felt much sympathy for live action stars (they're just posers) and prefer dubbed over puppets or digital animatrons even.
I have never cried in a live action movie, but I have an animation.

When I think about it more, I think vivid colors are important for me. A couple of cases in point (though these relate to computer games):

Command & Conquer: I never played the first C&C and started in this series with Red Alert. I liked Red Alet and preferred online multiplayer. Red Alert had vivid colors. Then Tiberian Sun came out, which I got pretty quick. The problem with Tiberian Sun is that everything was kinda dark and dreary, being that it was set in a post-apocalyptic future. I tried playing this game, focusing on online multiplayer, but every time I played I'd get really sleepy and my mood would lower, making playing very difficult. Then Red Alert 2 came out (never got Yuri's Revenge, though), which was the last C&C game I played. It brought back the vivid colors and I had fun for years playing online multiplayer with it.

Final Fantasy VII: My first Final Fantasy was IV, followed by VI. I had some difficulty adjuting to VII, but was eventually able to get into it. The biggest problem for me was how you spent usually ~6 hours of gameplay in Midgar for the start, having no access to the overworld until you completed it. Of the Final Fantasies I played (IV-IX), this was definitely the one where you had to wait the longest to get into the overworld. Midgar was such a dark, gloomy place, so I had the same problems with sleepiness and low mood resulting from the environment. Things picked up once you can get out into the much more colorful overworld, though (and you can look back at Midgar and see how gloomy it was)! Whenever I start a new game of Final Fantasy VII, I always look forward to getting out of Midgar. Even so, I generally liked the game.

Now dark and gloomy isn't always bad: For some reason in Chrono Trigger I could handle 2300 AD just fine and in Final Fantasy VI I could handle the World of Ruin with no problems. Now these games were 2D, as opposed to the 3D games mentioned above. Following up on that, Rainbow Road in the original Mario Kart (SNES) never gave me any problems, but whenever I played the Rainbow Road in Mario Kart 64, I started getting very sleepy, felt weird, and had difficulty focusing. (When I was at summer camp in the late 90s, there was a night where we had loud music and lots of flashing lights: This tended to make me feel very sleepy and weird and have difficulty focusing, too.)

I loved animation ever since I was young. I still do, I love western animation and anime and I like Eastern European animation

When I was a kid I was drawn more to cartoons or animations, like most kids are I suppose. But when being introduced to live-action things it took me more encouragement from others to watch it than what being introduced to a cartoon would.