Maybe they have a stock of wireframe animations that they just paint the new character over?
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Wed 20 May 2015, 18:41,
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Nah I don't think it's anything that complex
It would have been loads of extra work to produce clean skeletal animations for every scene in a film, on the off chance that they might be reused down the line. They either dug out the original animation cells and traced them, or more likely just rotoscoped frames from previous movies.
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Zoroastermouse thinks therefore he am, Wed 20 May 2015, 21:34,
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