So i did an experiment with animating a 2d image in Blender. I used Rayman for the experiment. Took a big longer then I thought it might but it worked out in the end. I dont think Im going to do many animations like this mostly because rendering this used up 70% of my CPU and I dont like that. So yeah unless I can figure out some thing else I think this is a one off

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