Schwartz, RachaelMullery, MarkDingliana, JohnMcDonnell, RachelBerio, DanielBruckert, Alexandre2025-05-092025-05-092025978-3-03868-272-1https://doi.org/10.2312/exw.20251068https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/exw20251068We present a preliminary experiment, investigating professional hand-drawn animators' perception of how good one frame is as drawing reference for another. 10 professional hand-drawn animators rated the drawing reference quality of 54 hand-drawn frame pairs, each differing by character pose and region rotation, reflection, and distortion transformations. Our results indicate that animators perceive frames differing by rotation/reflection as better drawing reference than frames differing by distortion.Attribution 4.0 International LicenseCCS Concepts: Applied computing → Fine artsApplied computing → Fine arts10.2312/exw.202510684 pages