>>147859597I have no clue about this author you're referring to, but I'll take your word for it. The overall point that I was trying to illustrate (
>>147858658) is that most animation enhancement techniques are a product of the 1930's, and then largely stopped being used or continued in a significant way (asterisk, with certain notable exceptions). In Japan, that's also true (to varying degrees), but they picked up on these idea much quicker than everyone else, and took things much more seriously. For example, here
https://x.com/T35endou/status/1495329952807358468 you can see a glossary depicting the things I'm talking about.
But yeah, people should be more aware.