From One Wooden Puppet · Episode 7
The house, lying down
How shadows work — A house's shadow is the house itself: darkened, squashed and tilted onto the ground. It isn't painted into the art; it's worked out every frame from one sun for the whole town, so every shadow turns when the sun moves. People are even simpler: a trapezoid plus a circle, which is why the mage's hat has no shadow.
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