This is a short pencil test/post production of the scene by james baxter
and the finished result is this right here (starts at 2:19 if it glitches for you)
as an artist who is self taught in animation this is realllly good. like, really good. alot of the people that are in the art industry right now that watch this show or maybe just keep up with Baxter, really, really enjoy this scene. i think i might find it so interesting because as a child i watched old Disney films like Cinderella, Pocahontas, beauty and the beast and never gave a second thought about the animation process and who was behind it so to get my own modern taste of it and to find out who did it i am definitely now a fan of than mans work. it also makes me realize animation on 1's is really, really something. after watching a couple baxter reels and jumping into some anime makes anime feel like a goddamn powerpoint lmao
I keep hearing about this series finale and about how it's so good. I never followed the show, just caught an episode here and there. It never really struck me as much, but is it really a profound must-watch?
I don't know much about the animation side of it. It looked more impressive in the first clip because you got to see the transition, that's a lot of frames and the rotation means you really have to nail the transition from two to one character. The final product kind of glossed it over, which probably worked better to convey what happened but stole from some of the brilliance of the animation.