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Cuphead was drawn frame by frame

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Modern software tools are wonderful, but pure stubbornness is better. Every single frame of the brutally difficult boss rush was drawn entirely by hand on paper and painted on transparent cels, perfectly replicating the nightmarish cartoons of the nineteen thirties.

Cuphead was drawn frame by frame
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