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I've been waiting for someone to upload this.
My favorite use of hand drawn animation on a CGI background. This shot is so complex and yet James Baxter pulled it off.
He's pretty much a god in a human body.
Baxter's technicality is already amazing when simply considering his ability to match the drawings with the camera movement. There's absolute no slack or jitter between the 3D environment and the 2D drawings. many animators couldn't do this with a simple volume like a box.
The fact that he then has complex character animation on top of this, AND complex overlapping motion on top of THAT is just silly.

most animators would "cheat" when the camera moves right past her head by using the hair to sort of "cut to black" and divide the pan into two separate shots that don't necessarily have to be consistent with one another, but Baxter draws her just far away enough that we can see the forms and proportions stay consistent throughout the pan. it's fucking wacky.
No other film of Hunchback has managed to make Quasimodo so graceful, or captured his superhuman swinging from the cathedral so well. If Victor Hugo liked nothing else about this movie, he would have appreciated that.