Tidy Animation : Cel animation technique

How to make a cel animation? The backrounds of different animated objects are drawn on different sheets of papers.Then a single frame is made by taking away all of the dull parts of the sheet of paper where the drawing of objects had been placed on top of the backgrounds, which is then finally photographed. This animation was invented by Earl Hurd and John Bray in 1915.

Most of this information is from Wikipedia and YouTube.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_animation#Cels

Celluloid is when two objects have been painted or drawn on a transparent sheet. Usually characters are drawn on cels which are then put over a set static background drawing this is helpful as it reduces the number of images that have to be drawn. It also helps the studio team to make their animation quicker because the production can be split up and given to different specialised teams. Using this to produce films is a much more cost friendly. Cel animation lets some parts of every frame to repeat from frame to frame. For example imagine a scene with two characters on the screen one of the characters is talking and the other is completely silent. Because one of the character isn't moving, it can be used in the scene with only one official drawing, whilst more drawing on different cels are used to make animate the speaking\moving character.

This is example of cel animation is Ed,Edd n Eddy which first aired in 1999 and sadly stopped in 2009.

This is an example of cel animation which was made by Matt Groening. The first episode was made in 1989 and is still the most well known cartoon. Both of these

This is a sample of how cel animation is made.It is a step to step guide made by the Youtuber Bruce Blitz.

The simpsons in 1990

The simpsons in 2015

The Simpsons in 1989

As you can see over the year the quality of the Simpsons has improved a lot. This could possibly be from the money that has been made due to all the money which leads to more employers to create episodes a lot faster.

One of the most famous cel animators is the well known Walt Disney. Born in Chicago Disney was interested in drawing at a very young age. When he was a young boy he did art classes, at the age of 18 Walt became a commercial illustration. in the early 1920's Walt made the Disney brothers studio alongside his brother Roy, that is where Walt developed Mickey Mouse the rest is history. Bellow is a video of exactly how disney cartoons were made. A example of Walt Disneys creations is Snow White and the Sever Dwarfs which is an 1937 animated musical which got Disney on the map with an $8million which is allowed Disney to create more and more cartoons and rule the animation world. Although Walt Disney created these stories the infamous Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Mickey Mouse were both drawn by the Animator Ub Iwerks