HOLLYWOOD — The postings went up Tuesday morning at nine. By Friday at noon, Foxglove Animation had 2,140 applications for fifteen jobs, and Priyanka Sundaram had stopped refreshing the count because, she said, “the number was making people on this floor feel things that were not useful.”

The second wave is the one the studio’s business plan called for in September and its board wanted in July: six junior seats, five mid-level, two effects artists and two production coordinators. The first wave of fourteen, hired in July, drew twelve hundred applications for eight junior roles. This one, for nearly twice the seats, has drawn nearly twice the applicants in a fraction of the time, which Ms. Sundaram declines to read as anything other than what it is.

“Two thousand people who can do this work do not have this work,” she said. “That is the fact. It was the fact in July and it is the fact now with a larger number on it. We are hiring fifteen. Please do not congratulate me on the other two thousand one hundred and twenty-five.”

Every posting again carries the studio’s paid-test-work policy: any applicant asked to complete a test exercise is paid for the hours. Two other studios in the corridor adopted the practice over the summer. A third did so this week, in a posting that quoted Foxglove’s language nearly verbatim, a development Ms. Sundaram described as “the only kind of plagiarism I endorse.”

The month’s other finding is on the second floor, where the first-wave juniors sit within rolling distance of the senior artists who are supposed to absorb them. The juniors, as predicted, are thriving. The seniors, as feared, are fine, and Ms. Sundaram has now formalized the countermeasure she confessed to in August: lunch is assigned. A lead who is found at a desk between 12:30 and 1:15 is sent out of the building.

“I have made a rule that adults have to eat, and I enforce it, and I am aware of how it sounds,” she said. “The alternative was two of my best people giving away three hours a day and calling it mentoring. It is mentoring. It is also three hours a day.”

Kwame Asante, the lead character animator whose lunch hour was the first to be legislated, was philosophical. “She’s right, and I resent it,” he said. “You get a kid who’s four months out of school and asking the right questions, and you want to answer all of them. She’s decided I can answer them until 12:30.”

The junior whose seven-second shot of a character crossing a rain-slicked street was approved in August by the co-producer in Antwerp — with one note, about the umbrella — has a second shot. It is eleven seconds, it involves a staircase, and it went to Antwerp this week. The floor is not discussing it, which is how the floor discusses things.

The board member who wanted the second floor filled by September has, Ms. Sundaram confirmed, stopped saying “faster.” He now says “don’t slow down,” and she considers the distinction a victory she intends to cash in October, when she will ask the board to fund a third wave for the spring rather than the winter.

Applications for the second wave close September 18. Interviews will run through October and the seats will be filled in November, on the same rule as the first wave: no junior sits where a senior cannot see the screen.

“The desks are the whole idea,” she said. “The rest is just hiring.”