Robotech Animation Breakdown

Robotech is a classic mashup anime, dating well before moe became the dominate style. The anime is actually a combination of several anime spliced into a single story. This was fairly common in American anime releases back in the day. Robotech comes from an era when television anime had a more limited budget and fewer digital tools to streamline and reduce production costs. So to save money and speed production, animators used many techniques.

For example, this walking animation consists of a f...