While modern cartoons draw each frame digitally, cel animation uses transparent cels for each frame. These cels host a character or part of a character and are laid atop pre-made backgrounds.

A section will introduce the principles and production process of cel animation, the traditional technique involving hand-drawn images on transparent sheets. Visitors will also be able to try ...

Cut-out animation is one of the oldest and simplest animation techniques and has many forms and variations. Essentially, cut-out animation involves producing animations using 2-D characters, props ...

Animation art-especially the thousands of ... detailed part of the frame that the transparent cels are laid on top of in succession to create the illusion of movement-much less the master ...

Sazae-san is final remaining anime to use hand-drawn cel animation The Sazae-san television anime announced on Friday that it will be making the change from cels — transparent sheets on which ...

Cel-ga (セル画) is the Japanese term for Celluloid Picture. This refers to the transparent material used to make frames of animation in the production of Japanese Anime shows. Each cel is one ...

With animation growing more expensive, tedious and time-consuming in the mid-20th century, Xeroxing allowed animators to copy drawings on transparent celluloid (cel) sheets using a Xerox camera ...