An Overview of the Short Animation Process - Animating with Blender: How to Create Short Animations from Start to Finish - page 11

Although the work fl ow as presented in this topic has its idiosyncrasies, it follows a proven formula. To ignore
this formula is the animation equivalent of criminal negligence, and if you do it, I promise that a bunch of
little key-framed lawyers will show up at your house, exhibiting crowd-simulated swarming behavior and
waving tiny digital court documents in the air.
On the other hand, if you follow the steps and keep yourself focused on the process, in the end you will have
something that very few other people have produced: a successfully completed short animation project.