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