Vermilion Circuit
A street-racing film animated to the actual physics of the cars, not the genre’s usual exaggeration.
Our highest genga-density feature: every race sequence runs on ones, and the storyboard team worked from real lap-time data for the fictional circuit so the pacing of each overtake matches a physically plausible car rather than genre convention. The tradeoff was a much longer key-animation schedule than a typical feature, absorbed by giving every other department — backgrounds, finishing, compositing — a longer runway to work against.
The film’s single longest continuous on-ones sequence is the final straight: eleven seconds, animated as one unbroken take rather than cut together from shorter takes, which is as much a scheduling decision as an artistic one — cutting it would have been easier and the director said no.