Using the same background setup for multiple poses and scenes

Here are a bunch of drawings of Kaspar doing things next to the dresser. When you are doing layouts, it makes sense to find all the scenes that look like they use the same setup (background and camera angle) - and draw just 1 background that will work for all the poses.
This complicates your thinking because now, not only do you have to do a good drawing, you have to make sure all the drawings work together and in the exact same setting.The reason to do all this planning and to just use one background if you can for multiple scenes - is to save work for the next guy: the background painter. If you draw a brand new BG for each scene that looks like a similar camera angle, then the poor painter has to do all this extra work painting multiple shots that are hardly different.

This unfortunately happens in animation quite a bit - in every department. If an artist doesn't plan his work to help the next guy or gal in the production line, he will cause problems and extra work for others. Those others will hate you for doing it, just like you would hate the person before you if he caused you extra needless work.


(ignore the top closeup below, it's a different angle and camera distance;it needs its own setup. Just draw the pose below that)
As an exercise, try taking 2 or 3 consecutive poses from this post and draw them so they all use the same BG setup. This one:

You have to now flip each drawing against the others so that they move smoothly between poses.

How to make one good pose and setup

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