Exactly the kind of thing you would be asked to avoid in 3D animation now.
“Can’t we just have him reach for the jacket and then cut to him outside wearing the jacket?”
When I was at CalArts, someone had a copy of the WIP of Thief and the Cobbler before Disney got ahold of it and turned it into the Cobbler and the Princess. When he fans out the cards here, if you freeze frame, all 52 cards are there. Individually hand drawn 🤯
Can’t even begin to tell you how impossible it would be to get something like this made in the US. The amount of executive meddling would slowly suffocate any originality out of this.
I feel like the future of animation looks a lot like Digital Circus and Hazbin Hotel in that they're creator driven, fan funded. Feels like a more organic way to have original content where the big studios only really seem interested in strip mining their existing IP.