God and the Machine
It’s not unusual for cartoonists and animators to reuse previous work as a shortcut. Here are two compilations of scenes from classic Disney films showed how detailed movement animations were redrawn with new characters.
The great comic book artist Wally Wood (Mad Magazine, Two-Fisted Tales, Daredevil, etc) had this written over his drawing table:
“Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.”
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