Animation Cel Painting Process | Step by Step 

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I kinda hope Netflix or something will pay for an old creator to come back and do some cel animation, wouldn't that be awesome? Like get together some old gods from the animation industry of old and pump out something beautiful. I could see it happening!

I’m trying to research ways to make digital animations look like cell animation so I can make a 90’s reminiscent cartoon

​@@bluesolace9052 I think besides the art style a lot of it definitely has to do with the camera being used to record the cels and the techniques around implementing the layers on that and how it constrained the animation. In the same way that having the ultimate freedom of technology is freeing you slowly realize a lot of what made some amazing entertainment/cinema cultural moments great were artists working within their constrainments and using that to work even more creatively to get their vision out there. That probably would really help lock in the feel if you can manage all those limitations that affect that animation form (See brickfilms and the way the Lego Movie team had to work with the brick limitation us old brickfilmers had to work with but with the bonus of their digital assistances to make the process more efficient/better while still making it as authentic as possible) plus obviously the art style, that sounds like a fascinating project that is probably a ton of fun to work on! I'm jealous!

Yes, I never really grew up with this animation. Becides some underated cartoons like adventures of sonic which was on netflix.

except for anime. those crazy horses

@I am me oh yeah that's right labskdhd i forgot they did that

Huge fan and animator in college right now!! Trying to make a fully traditional cel movie some day, appreciate that a brilliant musician recognizes this art form as well!

trying to recreate that traditional look using digital recourses is already hard enough, i could only imagine the absolute pain it was animating stuff like fist of the north star, where it was a tv show with deadlines

Technically, 12fps... rarely do they animate at 24fps. Also, there are many “hold” and “loop” frames. But, arduous nonetheless!

Imagine being the guy having to pre-plan so the nightmare you just described doesn't happen

@@npc6817 which is why storyboarding was so important.

@@DerSchneb yeah storyboarding for animation is a whole different beast

@@DerSchneb So does that mean that only 12 drawings are done for every second of film? I love animation and would love to learn more.

I’m super THANKFUL!!! 😇

Yeah so satisfying

why not now?

the time consumption would DEFINITELY pay off for such a satisfying raw look :D

Modern day: " Traditional cel by cel animation is dead, nobody has the patience to teach that." Made by Edgar: Hold my Beer

Floor wax. It's floor wax. It's a polymer. That's the chemical X.

@@elliotbufu What was the reason behind mixing it with floor wax?

Thomas. Glad you found it on your own. Would’ve drived me crazy lol.

Different animation studios used different methods to achieve this. For most of them a technique called "underlighting" was popular, where a sheet of black paper as well as a light were placed underneath the scene/cel being filmed. Whatever area or object in the scene that the animator wanted to glow, patterns were cut into the black paper to match what was in the cel, and light was then projected up through the cel to create the effect. By the 90s, glow effects started to be keyed in digitally during post-production.

Corecto! 😁

I greatly appreciate it! Thank you!

I’m very interested in learning about cartoons, filmmaking and animations. I was figuring that I can go to a trade school and participate in the animation program and create my own cartoon. My cartoons will be called The Cat In Fear (a slapstick horror-comedy aimed at young children) and The Kids of Butler Academy (a Sweet Dreams Fueled slice-of-life comedy-drama aimed at older teens/adult audiences). If I attended a trade school, I would ask one of the people if I could use CelAction2D for my cartoons: they’ll be digitally produced on computers but they’ll also be stylized as vintage cel cartoons from the 80s and 90s. Does that sound like a good idea?

SidArt Thank you so much 😁

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why can't you just use acetone or rubbing alcohol and q tip?

@@nategarcia7694 I don't know, that might work okay too. It's just when the paint is dried it takes a while for the alcohol to break it down and the Q-tip is so big you really can't really focus in on a small overflow section of paint. You can try breaking down the paint a bit with the alcohol and see if it comes off easier, but I still think it's easier to cut it and carefully pull it off with something less sharp, like a wooden stick of something to pry it off the cell rather than scrape it with a blade.

T U R T L E R A B B I T sorry bout that. I should have worded the title differently 😅

It says Cel PAINTING process .not animation so....