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Hand-drawn line boil: the layers below shiver between a few wobbly drawings

Animators call it line boil: when every frame of a cartoon is traced again by hand, the lines never land in quite the same place, so they shiver. This fakes it by keeping a few slightly different wobbles of the picture and flipping between them a handful of times a second — no blending, just a cut. It is the stepping, not the wobble, that makes it read as drawn by a person rather than distorted by a machine.

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