Animation Field Notes

Animation Field Notes

Own Every Frame

Or someone else, or something else, will.

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Todd Shaffer
Sep 29, 2025
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It’s easy to hand off a large portion of our animation. We pour our souls into the keys, the extremes, maybe a few breakdowns—then pass the rest to clean-up, or worse, to the inbetweener software.

We’ve given half of our drawings away and then wonder why our work has plateaued.

The reason is that we don’t own every frame.

“But …

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