TV Animation has relied on cheap shortcuts since long before digital tech took over. The reason so many Hanna-Barbera characters had a perpetual five-o-clock shadow is because you could have Fred Flintsone’s head and body stay put while he was talking and just swap out the animation cell that had his mouth on it without having to redraw the rest. And of course about 40% of any given episode of Voltron was just recycled footage of the lions assembling together.
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