Timing

24 fps. The still drawing is the performance.

Budget

• Character acting is on twos. Each drawing holds 2 frames.
• Rain, sparks, and a blade are on ones.
• The sakuga shot may use 8 unique drawings. Every other shot uses 3.
• After an action settles, hold at least 12 frames. Inside a hold, a 2-frame blink or a hair follow-through is allowed. Do not keep tweening the pose.

The expensive shot

1. Anticipation: 4 frames the other way, on the silhouette.
2. The action, as drawing swaps, not as one long ease.
3. One or two smear frames: a stretched silhouette along the travel. Not a CSS blur standing in for the smear.
4. The settled drawing, then the hold.

Camera on a hold

If the sheet allows a move, it is one scale from 100% to 106% across that shot, power1.inOut. Action shots stay locked so the drawings do the moving.

What not to ease

Do not fade a character in from opacity 0. They are in the hero frame, or they cut in when the shot cuts. Type may rise about 24px and fade over 0.4s. The last 8 frames of the button shot fade to ink. That fade is the only scene-level exit.

Swap drawings with stepped opacity at frame boundaries (tl.set at that time). A 1-frame step is 1/24 seconds.