>>6801797what's great about NGE is that the original budget was actually reduced greatly, so they couldn't afford to pay the animators as long as they originally scheduled them too.
This result in the animators taking some short cuts and not animating as much for the series, which in turn produced NGE's highly coveted "minimalist shots" combined with being still frames, which have become a hallmark and arguably turned it into the classic that it is today.