Imagine two animators join the same production on the same day. Over 6 months they each finish about a hundred shots. Same supervisor, same rigs, same pipeline. By the wrap party, one of them is animating at a visibly higher level while the other didn't progress at all. The difference was not talent. It wasn't the volume of work either. The one who progressed opened every shot with something they wanted to experiment with, instead of just finishing as fast as possible. Repetition doesn't ma