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She was the first person to see me as I had always wished to be seen. It had been enough to indebt me to her permanently. Within the male-dominated field of computer animation, Mel Vaught and Sharon Kisses are a active duo, the friction of these differences traveling them: Sharon, silently ambitious but self-doubting; Mel, brash and unapologetic, always the life of the get together. Best friends and artistic partners because the first week of college or university, where they bonded over their working-class origins and obvious ability, they put in their 20s ensconced in a gritty Brooklyn studio. Working, drinking alcohol, laughing. Drawing: Mel, to understand her tumultuous history, and Sharon, to reduce herself altogether. Now, after a decade of striving, the two are finally celebrating the release of these first full-length feature, which transforms Mel's difficult youth into a provocative and aesthetically daring work of art. The toast of the indie film scene, they stand at the cusp of rendering it big. But with their success come uncertainty and destruction, cracks in their romantic relationship threatening the delicate balance of these partnership. Sharon begins to feel expendable, suspecting that the ever-more raucous Mel is the real artist. During a visit to Sharon's home point out of Kentucky, the only other partner she has ever truly known - her stressed, charismatic childhood best friend, Teddy - reenters her life, and long-buried resentments surge to the top, hastening a reckoning no one sees coming. A funny, heartbreaking book of friendship, skill, and injury, The Animators is about the secrets we keep and the burdens we shed on the path to adulthood.
