When was the last time a junior animator on your team surprised you? Every animation studio eventually faces the same challenge: you need to grow your junior talent, but you cannot afford to let the production schedule slip. The instinct is often to hold juniors back until there is a "safe" moment to involve them. Meanwhile, senior animators are overloaded, and juniors are underleveraged and aren't building the skills the studio needs from them. On-production mentorship solves this. When tra