1) Do you need to be able to draw well to create good 2D animation? Explain your view.

Yes, I do believe that we need to be able to draw well to create a good 2D animation. I find that we need to be able to draw the frames to be as smooth as possible compared to the previous frames

2) Do you need to be able to draw well to create good 3D animation? Explain your view.

On the other hand, I do not thing that drawing affects 3D animation THAT much. You still need to know how objects and living thing move and react to other objects and that affects how you animate 3D. However, you do not need to draw in 3D (or at least not now) and hence a lesser importance of it compared to 2D.

3) What do you think would separate a piece of poor animation from a piece of good animation? In other words, how would you go about deciding if a piece of animation is good or bad?

I would see the distance in each frames and how realistic they look like.

4) In 2D animation, you need to be very aware of timing at a frame by frame level, using timing charts and other techniques - but for 3D animation, this is handled using the graph editor, which is more concerned with manipulating rates of change over time.

Personally, I find the graph editor to be of better use as it is more "clear". Editing on the graph editor is much easier than frame by frame checking.

Does this affect how you approach your animation work? Explain.

It would make working on animation much easier and precise.

5) Give a brief critique of Maya as an animation tool. Don't just say Maya makes animation difficult, or easy, or that you need to learn a lot of stuff to use Maya - explain what Maya does well and not so well in terms of creating animation.

I do not know how to answer this question as I have not used any other 3D animation platform and cannot compare. I am personally fine with using Maya now ^^