Yes, you read correctly. I am animating my animations. Here is an After Effects ScreenShot showing the graph-editor on the lower right, with a graph of the time-remapping of the layer with the barbie walking through the forest-like terrain. Basically I am time-remapping her walk-cycle so it appears that she is dancing to the music. This works, and doesn’t really detract from the goodness of the original animation, because the original animations sucked and was very herky-jerky.

I will certainly be doing things like this alone in my room for the great majority of the forseeable future. I would suddenly wish that I were merely editing video for my project, but I guess I’m just an Ascetic at heart.