Why do artists prefer hand-drawn animation as compared with software tools available for animation?

For the most part, I would think that creating animation using some software is generally bound to be much easier/faster than hand-drawn animation. Compare adding two keyframes in software, say 1 second apart, to manually drawing the 20-odd frames for that same second. Not to mention the ability of software to easily duplicate and modify the work once done. Having said that, I do see some advantages to hand-drawn frames. However, specific they may be: 1. The ability to capture some specific motion in a frame-by-frame drawn animation, cannot sometimes be matched by some software blindly interpolating between keyframes. Despite the amount of control offered by software today (eg. using complex hierarchical armature/rigs, controlling time-curves, etc.), it might still be better to draw each frame, in order for the artist to get the exact desired flow of motion. 2. A perhaps more important use is rotoscope. The idea of first shooting an actual video, and then artists 're-mastering' on top of the video frames, leads to some incredible artwork with the ability to do something to each individual frame, the artist can really take the mood conveyed by the animation to a whole new level just by varying the choice of medium (eg. charcoal, watercolor, etc), and also other parameters such as the strength of brush strokes, etc.

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