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Yes, very few people working today have any interest in the traditional cel process, but for anyone who is excited at its possibilities, its a chilling thing to think about. I never paid attention to how much oil is on the surface of human skin until trying to ink and paint cels). For an in-depth, eye-opening look at this story, check out Mindy Johnsons amazing book, Ink & Paint, The Women of Walt Disneys Animation. however another company now sells paints for animation cels called Toon In undergrad I would buy cel paint in little 2oz squeeze bottles at Cartoon Colour they sold a great range of colors and it dried fast.

Nasan, I don't know what pigments Cartoon Colour uses for its various pigments, but the fade properties would depend on the pigments. colors and even worked well with the finished background art. You dont need good lighting nor a nice camera nor capture software. Totally bypass needing a dip pen by using a small brush.

PP was my first work on cel back in 2018. And other factors popped up, that cel paint (UPDATE: alternately, you could scan your cels. It's a shame that the company that made Cartoon Colour Cel-Vinyl paint (for long since 1947) had abruptly went out of business (due to CGI animated feature films being more popular and/or a loss of a company family member?) If you are outside of the US, just keep this in mind and maybe seek alternatives. however another company now sells paints for animation cels called Toon Also! Some people swear by gouache but in my experience, at least when paired with laser transparencies, cheap gouache will start to flake in a few months. Im a few sentences in and you look really skeptical of this metaphor.

I got to paint colors onto cels for Cap'n Crunch animated commercials in Cel, even with the tissue between, is generally thin enough that you can work without a light table. Before cels were introduced, backgrounds, characters and objects were all drawn on one sheet, with everything having to be redrawn for each frame. Takes some getting used to, but really nice if you like fluid, opaque paint without a lot of texture. Scanners: Scanning your animation is easier, cheaper and takes up less space than using a down shooter or camera stand. Strategies for efficiency and cost-cutting. For inking with a brush or dip pen, I use Black Star India ink, which was recommended to me by animator/director/generous DIY info sharer Anna Firth. I buy them in generic packs of 100 off of ebay (never buy them from an office supply store those prices are wild!). Please use respectfully! Maybe youre going for that. Anyway, thanks to Youtube powerful resourcesi found a "making of" video of Fire & Ice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPuTVjpuom8At 6:27 there's a familiar face :D. "600 paintings for the film at a rate of about 11 a week"I guess that means you weren't sitting around waiting for the muse to waft in on an errant breeze.

I havent found this to be much of an issue. Luca, the layout drawings were done in pencil by Tim Callahan over a rough template based on the live action. I got to paint colors onto cels for Cap'n Crunch animated commercials in Cartoon Colour sadly no longer produces their brand of Cel Vinyl paints, Use my crosshair method on cel. The first place I began to learn this craft was at a commercial studio in The figures (lower right) are registered on top of the painting. If you have a trad animator in your region it could be worth asking if they have cel lying around that they wont be using. You can patch this together with my paper compositing tutorial to remove your animation from the scanner lid.

"Each sequence needed a different color mood" I'm curious about this thing. If youre looking to make a cel-based gif, post, or short, you must accept its presence to a certain extent (hell, I embrace it!). Maybe this is because I have no formal training in painting (outside of elementary school fingerpainting, which technically does count as formal training), and have no clue how to properly apply paint. The 8oz version is an investment but ends up being light years cheaper than the standard 3/4oz bottles. Maybe even an old sock would work because you mostly need to protect the cel from where you rest your hand as you draw. Could it have been an accident? Please practice material safety and please do NOT put acrylic paint down the sink. Illustration! If you insist on trying it, use the cool/no heat setting as hot air from a blowdryer can warp laser transparencies pretty easily. A handful of favorites, all of which either were made on, or incorporate sequences that use, animation cels. If the bumps have dried hard, youre good to go. For example, Ive outlined the circle around TinTin and Snowy in order to create an accurate circle.I will remove the circle on the hand painted cel animation at a later stage in the tutorial. A lot of student animated films could not afford the ink and paint process,

Painters wore thin white cotton gloves to keep their finger prints off of Another note: I absolutely love the weird tissue paper they put between cels. too thick and not too watery. Well maybe that deserves a few ad clicks to add a little something to the Blog's You also had to make sure the paint was not Try not to let the nibs sit in water or dry in the open with water because they will rust. Its very opaque, and sticks to plastic surfaces beautifully. I encourage you to do the 10 for $10 and try a small loop. cel and avoid stroking it on. When painting cels, youre going to want to apply in globs or blobs, also known as dabs or smooshes depending on the region of the world in which you live. wasn't too thin. One off cel illustrations let you go wild with detail in a way that you cant really do with animation. The paint could be I worry the myth that cel is a luxury process reserved for the high budget animator is scaring a lot of artists away from trying out this cool process. I have made works on cel for little to no cost with a combination of material knowledge and rethinking how I use cel and I think you can too! I use an A4 ~$50 scanner from Staples for ALL my art. Hold the dryer at least 12 from the cel surface to prevent the air pressure from moving the ink. I use the word "applied" because you had to push the paint around on the Thank you for your interest in The Walt Disney Company and for taking the time to apply to the position ofInker and Painter (826568BR). When mixing your paint do not add water we want this paint to be as thick as it can be! Damaged or dull ones I set aside to use for different line weights. Want more awesome tutorials? If you have access to an ACME punch and corresponding peg bar, of course that works too. I also love colour, hence the username. Martin's Black Star Waterproof India Ink Hicarb. As in the potentially future classic DIY cel mnemonic I just made up, strokes lead to streaks. Here are some recommendations: I love this screenprinting ink. I applied for this job, however my history of applying for Disney jobs in I use Dr. Ph. Make a practice of sharing knowledge with your peers and community if you have the resources. Luxurious! color parts, draw over the clean black outline and then each colored paper Then it was back to the inking and painting. Not sure about expensive gouache, because I was scared off by the price. For short-form works on cel I have had success just tacking the sheets to the wall and shooting them with my camera. Drying time depends on the ink used, how liberally it was applied, and the temperature, humidity, and ventilation in the room where youve set your cels to dry. DIY Animation Club co-founder Dave Merson Hess taught animation and developed curriculum for Aurora Picture Show's youth workshops, 2014-2018, including stints as a resident artist in the Arts in Medicine programs at MD Anderson Cancer Center and Texas Childrens' Hospital. Unfortunately most art stores only stock basic colors (some only stock black and white). These came from a generous Ebay seller who gave me a deal based on it being for educational purposes. I want to suggest a few new shortcuts with a focus on low budget and tech accessibility here. Then it would be 12 or 1pm and

Whichever you use, you must make a paper guide (e.g. You paint behind the line. Just make sure youre only exporting the linework no color! We got those approved by the director, Ralph Bakshi, and then it was up to us to control the palette to keep to that mood. were a few other background artists who would stop by and the head of the Whatever, its not 1970 we can do what we want. For use of text or images in traditional print media or for any commercial licensing rights, please email me for permission. Instead of using brush strokes for this hand painted animation cel tutorial I loaded my brush with a large amount of paint and laid in my colours thickly using a blobbing technique for small areas (see the Snowy the dog being painted below).As a result Snowys colour came out looking strong with no streaks or see through areas. If you are hungry for more cel knowledge, I always like to suggest this this piece of history: Hannah Franks essay The Multiplication of Traces: Xerographic Reproduction and One Hundred and One Dalmatians.. Never apply with strokes. Crunch's coat color and hat, other artists painted the shaded coat color to Ive used a blowdryer to dry some cels in a hurry, but I dont really recommend this! homemade cassette music we had put together. There also were several artists with steady hands who were inking the cels This would accomplish something similar to the swing-away pressure plate found on an Oxberry animation camera stand. Well be painting that on in the next step.

The nibs may seem a bit pricey but you can use them forever despite what people say. Punch Those Cels Ill update the article once Ive tried that. Reconstructing a Face from a Single Image, Establishing shot for Fire and Ice by James Gurney.

I like to think of a single finished cel as a tasty media sandwich! has written up her cel animation process (using overhead transparency film), and shared a studio tour, Making It Up As I Go Along: Phoebe Parsons on the Terror Fervor Process, I recently purchased a very large lot of scene folders containing cels from a few different 1980s Saturday Morning Cartoons. I scan my cels because I am a scanimator. I am very straight-ahead and love tracing cel to cel for Extreme Precision. In the mean time, have fun with process and feel free to reach out with any questions or findings!

Wait for your paint to dry, then remove any unwanted lines using a cotton bud soaked in your chosen Goo Remover. Here's one I worked on, adding the shading on the Soggy characters. You can also check the stats on Jetpens and find something similar.

Wooden toothpicks or chop sticks were used the Instead, Id recommend putting one sheet of tracing paper between each cel, so temperature fluctuations dont liquify your paint and cause adjacent cels to stick together. But at this point cel paint is nearly impossible to find. Then go back and do a spot pass just a little touch up on the blank spots or thinner areas, using smaller splorches (aka dots or stipples). I let you know if I hear anything. different colored lines. but, luckily, I already found my own back-up alternatives to even make up for the death of Cel-Vinyl! Chicago. Before digging in here, you should flip through this really thorough guide by Ingo Raschka on cel processes with a digital angle. It's too bad not many of them survived.How well does Cel-Vinyl hold up against fading? Ive also tried putting a sheet of regular copy paper between each cel. Please note, this message only applies to the position ofInker and Painter(826568BR). Somebody had hair when he worked with Bakshi. I did notice on their website something seems to have happened (possible death in the family?).

Hey, aswin and Christopher Sobieniak. Its one of my favourite surfaces for illustrating on. Colour in Culver City, CA were it was made at the time. Check Out My Free Resources and Tutorials Page, A Thin Permanent Marker (I used an Artline 725 Pen), A Clear Binding Cover (used as an alternative to Cel Animation Sheets), Paint Brushes (preferably round) in various sizes, Goo Remover (I used Planet Ark Orange Power Goo Remover). All these processes looked great, but took a lot of time and people to The line becomes buried under the paint creating really nice clean lines. As a result of working this way, the camera (or scanner) sees the flat side of the paint, which is smooth-jazz smooth when viewed through the cel (unlike the bumpy side of the paint, which is bumpy and casts shadows all over the place). In the past Ive laid my cels out to air dry on every surface available, including the dinner table, my desk, kitchen counter, and floor. This guide is designed for DIY animators and artists working non-commercially. illuminated the clear cels from below as the paint was applied on the Two slices of bread (the ink on top, the paint on the bottom) holding onto a thin slice of savory tofurky (the cel). I have used discarded plastic sheets a painter friend had collected for me from packaging on canvases at a wine and painting gig he worked.

This was very surprising to me.

Alcohol wont rust. Tape your peg bar to your work surface (downshooter base / desk / table). In addition to airborne particulate, laser transparencies also seem to slurp up the trace amounts of oil present on human fingertips and/or canine footpads (depending on who you live with). Check Out My Free Resources and Tutorials Page. drawing would be glued to a clear animation cel. He also started Rush Process, a Gulf Coast-based festival celebrating animators who work with physical media, which ran from 2015 to 2018. Its a little funny because I add the background back in digitally when you would usually work on cel to shoot it layered over the background. You can confirm the current status of those applications on yourcandidate dashboard. I read elsewhere that they handle similar to Acrylics, but can be a little tricky to use. Paint cel for just the background. If you work on overhead sheets or found plastic, the ink and paint may crack and age poorly.

is a lost art.

Tones. If you are scanning, PLEASE do a color test of how your paints look in your scanner BEFORE you paint. Put On A Pair Of Cotton Gloves I see a lot of rotoscope cel painters use this strategy. It does shorten the active time, but overall its much slower; squeeze bottle application increased the average paint thickness, which lead to a drying time of over 3 days in mild Fall weather! the ink and paint department was in an office space a few floors above. If you can, place cels into manila folders and store them on edge.

small light boxes on top.

You can also scrape it off which is fun if you mess up or you want to add some film-scratch textures. give a little 3D effect. Can you learn to draw from an AI teacher? Im going to rush through this step there are a lot of ideas out there for DIY downshooter setups, but thats kind of beyond the scope of this article. Now that were wearing our gloves, our first step is to punch our cels with a standard three hole punch (later on during shooting well use a peg bar with round pegs to keep our cels aligned). OK now that we have the basics down, lets totally rethink this all with cost and material efficiency in mind. Theyll fit 6 or 8 frames per sheet instead of one frame per sheet.

Youre resourceful! Maybe it wont! This is the same concept as paintings on restaurant windows at Christmas. This Tin Tin hand painted cel animation sheet was created as a birthday present and photos documenting the process were used only for this free tutorial. produce them to meet a deadline. It eliminates the need for complex lighting (cel is reflective so shooting it under camera requires careful lighting). Youll see later that I encourage you to rethink the way you use cel to be resourceful. Hello James,This post takes me back to when I worked as an "inker & painter" for a small, SanFrancisco animation studio (Imagination Inc.) that produced Sesame Street films in the early '70's. add color marker or color pencil to it.

I know from experience that the hardest part of cel is figuring out the materials and workflow so Im going to do the technical breakdown for you. Generic art store brands work fine for this. Dave is has cleanliness and cel hygiene down to an art! Ill get into some strategy later but as far as picking an ink, youll want something crusty, opaque and appropriate for the pen or brush you are using. You dont want to store your cels so the paint from one comes into direct contact with the ink of another. Try to get it in as big a bottle as you can afford. No more paint brushes, or paint to slowly push around and If you use a blowdryer, choose a relatively clean room, and dust/swiff/sweep that room first, before bringing your cels into it. It is also quite expensive. I must admit, as careful I am about inking, Im much messier when I flip my dried inked cels for painting! Other ideas at the bottom of this page. This method gets a little messy though. A note on LF, it was really frustrating shipping to Canada with them. Also, we can be a bit more carefree with our painting; since the ink lines will effectively be overlaid when viewed from the other side, we dont have to worry about accidently painting over them. Maybe this is my comic book inking bias coming into play, but I prefer my ink linework to be clean af, or at least for the ink to dry exactly as I laid it down, sans interference from oily fingerprints or palm grease smudges (this probably makes it sound like I have exceptionally dirty hands. When traditionally directors couldnt have been further from the process, whether that be due to overseas outsourcing or the unfair labeling of ink and paint as a pink collar job. Waiting for the paint to dry takes much longer than the ink.

Youre probably not going to be inking and painting in a NASA cleanroom, but oil causes way more problems than dust, and I would strongly advise you to invest in a pair of $2 cotton gloves, especially if youre inking by hand. Could this be due to a quirk of the particular studio?

Ok so your cels are dry and now its time to paint. Scanning also keeps the art flat. You can use this as a clue in your search.

Chicago called Sinnott and Associates, who at the time, produced all I think Cartoon Color went out of business. This helps sponge up any ink that didnt dry all the way and keeps it off the cel being traced onto and it creates and onion-skin effect to help see which layer lines are on. Lets begin. The Multiplication of Traces: Xerographic Reproduction and One Hundred and One Dalmatians.. I will say working with everyone in one room was the best thing of the job, I once shot the back of Pine Processionary just out of curiosity. Buying Ink: I like to ink by hand. you could click to add a color and you can change it throughout without much After 24 hours, you can start pressing on the bumpiest, most raised parts of the paint to test for dryness. Using your permanent marker, ink your finalised design onto the clear binding cover.TIP: Add lines that wont be in the final image for easier colouring.

I like to use these nibs with a nib holder like this. Please note, this message only applies to the position of, . Ink and Paint was staffed largely by highly skilled women artists, who were given very few opportunities in an industry which absolutely could not function without them (until layoffs driven by the development of xerography and digital paint tools, in that order, rendered them obsolete). The animation drawings were created in the studio on the first floor and wait for it to dry until you could add more color to it. was a whole other set of skills where you had to ink a solid and strong line All images and text are copyright 2020 James Gurney and/or their respective owners. There are two main ways to ink cel by hand. Leaving in the mess-ups, the paint splatters, the accidents, the lightening flash of a blonde dog hair of owning and uplifting analog ink and paint as something personal and important an essential and wrongfully maligned part of the animation process. Thanks for the post! Tones. Gloves: You will see white cotton gloves suggested as mandatory for working with cel. If you want to use cel minimally you can paint your background art on cel and add your animation layer another way. Peg bars/punching: I use a 1/4 round peg bar (you can make one using dowel and some hot glue) and a regular hole puncher (just get one with adjustable heads. Ill use some production images from my 3-channel work, Pine Processionary to show how I work on cel. Buying/Finding Cel: A lot of people use overhead transparencies. After some experiments, Ive settled on using laser transparencies instead of cels. Other studios Ive never tried this, but see Anna Firths recent tutorial on how she approaches animating on cels for the full details.). animation studios choose a different look to add color to their animation. 5. This is great because they are cheap and you can get some really good mileage. everyone would break for lunch, either with food they had brought or would pupils. That Tape or blue-tak down your background, then lay down your cels on top of that, and shoot them one at a time using a smartphone, or digital camera + Dragonframe. Thanks for the suggestions Michael, I would think Ceramcoat would be a good brand to go with given how much that typical sells for against other craft paints. That said, the dustiness, the grittiness, the visual anomalies and microfilth fluctuating from frame to frame is actually part of what I love about the DIY approach to cel. Ive heard rumours about sign paint, nail polish, etc. I have the lid removed and I use a stack of paper taped together as my lid to hold the artwork flat.

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