3D animation finds its applications in different areas such as movies
 or games industry, as well as it is useful for different kinds of 
education purposes. It brings more human, social and dramatic reality to
 these fields. The reason of using the animations for educational 
purposes is to create specialized presentations to support greater level
 of realism that is adequate for better understanding of the context 
presented.
3D animating found in games refers to various 
sorts of objects and characters that are animated in real-time (flocking
 systems, etc). Its application in this area concerns realistic fashion 
of animation during the game and, for example, in cutscenes which break 
up the gameplay.
According to animations that are present 
in movies, these are used to provide the sophisticated art and 
entertainment by watching amazing graphics. The number of different 
techniques that are found in production of films is great, e.g. Motion 
Capture, Rotoscoping and many more.
This Recent 3D Animation Techniques article can be found on our blog.