Animation vs script

I have a question, which one is considered a better approach for performance etc reasons. I have a 2D gameobject and I'm planning on changing its color gradually during a game over sequence. Is it preferred to use animation for this or code changing the sprite renderer color values? Or is it just a case choosing what ever approach suits you better?

 

Hello,
Color changing isn't very demanding, and it depends if you're aiming a specific time rate or something based on events. I would try to chrono test to see which is fastest, but honestly my approach would be not to add an entire component just to change the color, but if you already have an animation component it should be fine to use it, just to group up your work and not having different scripts doing different things, for the sake of clarity.

 

Thanks for the replay. I went with code this time because I'm planning to create multiple characters and all of them have many different game over sequence animations so creating one extra for all of them with only color change added seemed to be more time consuming than to write a code which fits for all.