@Felsir, thanks for going into that level of depth and thanks for the link; it is an interesting read! I am looking at doing animations for the more complex movements; skeletal, multi-joint, complex movement animations, etc. but like to explore each avenue to see what works and how it works - so your explanation is perfect, it helps me understand how it works. Thank you!

Thanks for your answer! That explains in which circumstances animation is better than programmatically attaining the desired result, and vice versa. As I am going for simplicity for a proof of concept, I will stick with Lerp, but further down the track I will look to do some work with animations. Thank you again!