It's hard to imagine a time when the oboe was a revolutionary instrument, and its invention changed its related art forever. The VAS was revolutionary at the time, and changed the way animation was made. It was also on-ramp, in some ways, to animation moving into the digital age.
Alex Williams' great article on FlipAnimation is a view of the VAS from an animator's perspective, and speaks to life (and the animators) before the VAS.
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