Most animation studios know whether their projects shipped on time and whether the client was happy. Beyond that, the picture gets blurry. Revenue is coming in, artists are busy, the render farm is humming, but nobody can explain with certainty why margins keep shrinking, or why the same bottlenecks appear on every production. The strangest part is that the studio is generating data every day, but measuring almost none of it. This is not a rare situation. Animation is a creative industry wher