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Leimert Animation Studio
Your model is rigorous. Your audience still can't see what it shows.
Leimert Animation Studio translates decision-theoretic and economic models into animated explanations that show actors, incentives, constraints, and dynamics over time, so decision-makers can follow the logic without reading the technical appendix.
Animation is our tool.
Clarity is our product.
Bring a model, working paper, or analysis. We'll tell you whether animation can carry its logic accurately, and what we'd need from you to do it.
Bring a model, working paper, or analysis. We'll tell you whether animation can carry its logic accurately, and what we'd need from you to do it.
Evidence → Model → Visualization → Animation→ Clarity
Is this for you?
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• Your findings depend on structure (incentives, feedback, sequencing) that static charts flatten.
• Reviewers, funders, or officials engage with the summary but not the mechanism.
• Stakeholders reach different conclusions because they're implicitly working from different models.
• You need the public to understand a policy or institutional dynamic without oversimplifying it.
What you bring / what you get
You bring: a model, framework, or evidence base, with its assumptions documented. If you have the evidence but not yet the model, we can structure one with you.
You get: an animated explainer faithful to your model. It shows the actors, the incentives, the sequence of decisions, and where uncertainty sits, with known, assumed, and unknown elements distinguished. You review it for accuracy before release.
What it is not: a simplification that drops your caveats. Animation changes how the model is shown, not what it claims.
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 our tool.
Clarity is our product.
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→ Clarity.
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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:​
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 takes your 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
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— not just what's stated where the leverage points sit.
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The result: organizations that can act with clarity instead of guessing.
Leimert Animation Studio (LAS)
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Evidence → Model → Visualization → Animation→ Clarity
Evidence — What do we actually know?
Model — What structure does the evidence reveal?
Visualization — How can that structure be made visible?
Animation — How can its relationships and dynamics be shown over time?
Clarity — What can someone now understand that was difficult to see before?
