Leimert Animation Studio
Complex systems become understandable when you can see them.
LAS uses animation and visual systems communication to make decision-theoretic models and complex analytical reasoning easier to see, understand, and use.
Animation = delivery mechanism
Model = analytical framework
Clarity = value
Better decisions = impact
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Animation is not our product.
Clarity is.
Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza: An Institutional-Environment Transition
LAS is building a decision-theoretic model of the Crenshaw Plaza redevelopment's incentive structure — tracing design choices back through primary source documents (the EIR) to identify the actual applicant, a wealth-filter dynamic in the unit mix, and a parking paradox undermining the project's own transit-oriented aims.
Evidence → Model → Visualization → Animation.
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Underneath the work-in-progress is a structural model:
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actors,
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evidence,
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competing explanations for the developer's design choices, ​
weighed against primary source documents.
The animation is how that model becomes legible to a general audience — not a substitute for the analysis.
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WHAT LAS DOES
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Most organizations operate within systems they can't fully see — which is why outcomes seem to happen to them rather than through structures they could understand and influence.
LAS builds a structured model of the actors, incentives, and constraints driving decisions in that system — then translates that model into visual and animated form.
The animation is not the model. It's how the model becomes understandable.That model reveals:
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who the real actors and stakeholders are
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what incentives are actually driving decisions — not just what's stated where the leverage points sit
The result: organizations that can act with clarity instead of guessing.
Leimert Animation Studio (LAS)
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Animation is not our product.
Clarity is.
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