You two are cheaters… 
(I actually made a spot sheet for INK, which is very useable on every background, I’ll share it when I access my computer. It has about 5 different spots and an understanding of the spot directing… So, Im a cheater as well? 
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Seriously, there are so many animations!
Some of them are kinda funny too 
Like:
walk_baby_angry_loop
THAT EXISTS ^^^
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It’s not cheating. It’s called being efficient
Why waste time directing something every single time when you can memorise certain things and be lazy?
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Actually my latest way around this has been to use close-up zooms on whoever is speaking… (another reason I find LL kinda awkward to direct is when the person who’s not talking in the scene just looks like they’re frozen in the end of an animation like a serial killer or they just look stone cold and emotionless, so my zooms defeat both of these problems)
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What everyone else said, the animations are the wonkiest. That was my biggest issue w/ LL because you have to always put some kind of idle stop (or at least I did out of annoyance) bc a lot of the animations run on a loop.
Same w/ the height of the guys, I had to change it around even when they walked in at default sizes.
Ink is def much easier to write in.
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You could always use the animation catalog, you just switch between tabs which isn’t as annoying as directing the story every single time.
still annoying though.
Omg, I forgot about zooming to face! I never use timed in zooms in dialogues because it looks soooooo bad. Especially in LL since the animation is looping 
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HAHAHAHA! Sometimes I just let the loop play if I’m going to zoom in on someone else
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For me, it’s a couple of things.
The sheer number of LL animations, for one. There are so many that are subtly different and a nightmare to look up if you forget them.
Second is definitely the timing of animations. Everyone in LL moves slower when they do an animation. For me, I like to have characters react to something another character’s said halfway through the talking animation, which means doing something like this:
&pause for 0.4 THEN CHARACTER1 is ll_animation
CHARACTER2 (talk_neutral)
Blah blah blah
But because the characters move a lot slower, it’s much more difficult to make it look like the character is reacting naturally — not too fast or too slow — because you get more of a sense of timing with LL
Third, definitely the lack of script templates. CC script templaces for INK might be really limited, but they’re a lifesaver.
Fourth is definitely what other people have said: you spend a lot more time adding in animations because so, so many of them loop.
Fifth is very similar to one above: the animations are slower, so the chapters take longer to do the same things. Lots more time spent on reviewing the chapter.
Then there’s something else someone mentioned: the guys are shorter than the girls, which can look super weird and takes a lot more spot direction. All of my characters have different heights, anyways, so I do spend a lot of time spot directing, but this is a lot more.
That’s all I can think of at the moment.
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Honestly. It lags too, and there’s not enough happy animations.
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quite easy… all are the same… except for their animations… other than that all styles same coding etc. I’m doing all in 1 story so i know lol…
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Probably because INK users are used to the INK animations, not the LL animations.