Online Animations

The only pro that I see for the animations is that it is fun and different for the students.  It is easy to switch up the methods of discussing different concepts when you can animation.  However, I feel like these animations could also be very distracting to the students, and force them to focus more on the characters and animations instead of the actual content and science concepts.  It also seems very time consuming to me, and not worth it.  I feel it would be easier and more effective to make a creative lecture using the students as props, in order to get them involved, rather than having them watch a short video.