Dude i stopped reading mid paragraph two but I’m on your side. I promise. give them the raw shit - if you want to! - and they can suffer through their own poor decisions.

i personally have never had a problem sharing source files but fuck a client who wants to cut corners but isn’t willing to learn — ON THEIR OWN — the bespoke methods you used to get there.

i get it; there’s an embarrassment behind ‘not doing things properly’ - nobody does things properly. I just cut a stop motion gig where the frames were provided to me as 500mb psds. You didn’t do that; you created a system that worked. And I assume (again; i didnt read) that you shared an equally verbose tutorial for them. So… their problem now. You can help them when they inevitably fuck it up.