In this article, Heydon Pickering mixes old with new, taking a somewhat primitive art and breathing new life into it. With the help of Sass, he streamlines the necessary workflow and hopefully demonstrating that automation can, sometimes, be a friend to creativity. The reason he conceived the technique and wrote the necessary code for this article is because he really wanted to make cel animations
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