He provides the light and the water, fertilises the soil, digs it over, animates everything in such a way that your eye is never still for long.
Over the past 20 years, West has watched from the inside as more and more traditional actors (as opposed to career voice actors) have taken over the animated feature film industry.
Avoid over-animating the banners.
"He has a face like mime – Barrault from Les Enfants du Paradis – oval face, arching eyebrows, animated, almost over-animated.
"He has a face like a mime — Barrault from 'Les Enfants du Paradis' — oval face, arching eyebrows, animated, almost over-animated," Eyre wrote in his diary in 1987, after the two first met for lunch.
Before long, however, Poliektova's influence takes over, as tiny, animated reflections and superimposed creatures begin milling about the frame.
Much of this is thanks to Richard Linklater, whose meditative Waking Life and drug-fuelled Philip K Dick adaptation A Scanner Darkly were both produced using "rotoscoping", where live-footage is "drawn" over and animated.
Beyond takes the technology a step further, with a custom rig of approximately 70 cameras recording Page and Dafoe's full performances from every angle, rather than layering separately recorded voice sessions over independently animated scenes.
You can search through over 1,400 animated GIFs, filtering them by TV show, "actions" or "reactions".
