Cel Animation

Cel Animation is when characters or objects are drawn on tracing paper and then are put on pre-drawn backgrounds. To do this your celf, get some tracing paper and begin drawing your characters, continue tracing them in different positions to convey movement through the persistence of vision, then place them on a drawn background. Now get a cel sheet and trace over all the tracing pictures in ink and colour, put them all together to create cel animation.





The advantages of cel animation are never having a jittery background, its also easy to make your own movies and you can be creative as you like. The disadvantages however is, you'l need patience, and you cannot save your work. The technique was first used by Walt Disney Studios during 1928, in the short cartoon "Steamboat Willie", they then carried this on to their film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" in 1937.

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