Forms and Genres

TV animation

Family Guy is an American animated television series created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian. The show is set in the fictional city of Quahog, Rhode Island, and bases much of its humor on parodying American pop culture. this tyep of animation is for an older audience and has a very specific comedy style.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_guy

Channel Idents

Station idents are normally used in between shows, and by some are considered the most important portion of a network's presentation. Unlike in the U.S., broadcast stations in Europe do not identify by callsign, although many European networks brand by their usual channel number. for example E4 uses its symbol in the many animations that are used in E4's idents, some idents are created to appeal to a certain target audience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_ident

Cinema

Animation is the technique in which each frame of a film is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model unit and then photographing the result with a special animation camera. film makers such as pixar make animations films useing CGI, this give a more realistic feel.

Advertising

Animation is used in advertiseing because it is hard to achieve a certain appeal that actors find hard to do, animation in advertiseing ranges from hand drawn to CGI, but also stop start animation can be used, for example wallace and gromit appeared in a NPower advert, which appeals to a wide target audience. 

Music Videos

Music videos also use animation often when the video has a stroy, this makes it easier to do special effect that would be harder with actors and sets. the target audience for videos with animation is often aimed at childeren but can range from childeren to teenagers.

Computer Games

Computer games use animation but there are many tyeps , for example first person shooters are most likely to use more realistic animation to have special effects and give the game more urgency. Other games such as childerens games are more likely to have cartoon animation.