When you consider that it takes 1440 individual images to produce one minute of animated video at 24 fps (cine), you should be able to know two things. 1) you will have to spend a whole lot of time setting up each shot so that you do not get a jumpy final video and 2) preplanning each shot including lighting your "scenes" is paramount.
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