#animation cels

[atomic-chronoscaph]

A Charlie Brown Christmas animation cel (1965)

[capsyst]

Sorry I haven’t posted much lately. I’m working on a new project. Here’s a sneak peek of what I’m doing!

The idea I had was that in the original NES manual there are these gorgeous anime cel illustrations highlighting some of the action you’ll get into playing the game.

However, these are not actually part of any long lost anime or anything. They were single images produced to look like an anime by hand painting cels and placing them over backgrounds.

So my thought was… why don’t I actually animate these scenes and try to make them look like true hand painted 80’s anime?

To help with this project I’ve identified a number of factors that go into what makes 80’s anime look the way it does. Take a look at the example:

SHADING: Unlike a lot of American productions where the shadow layer is a separate animation pass overlayed on top of the original through a composting effect, Anime is done much cheaper. Artists would actually ink the colors of where shadows are supposed to be on the cels themselves, and then paint the shadows onto the cels using a different color.

BRUSH WORK: 80’s anime has a rougher edge to it. Either through using the xerox method or by hand painting the ink lines with a dry brush, the one point that is clear is that the actual linework of each stroke is often broken up and brittle.

CEL LAYERS: Anime cels are actual sheets of celluloid painted and layed down on top of a background painting. No matter how flat you try to make it, the more layers you introduce the more likely cel shadows will start to pile up, and the foggier the background gets.

MY PROCESS: So this is what I’ve come up with as my method of reproducing this digitally.

1) I’m going to use a dry brush that cracks and will intentionally try to make the animation a little messy. I won’t be trying to clean it up much (if at all) and if I make a mistake it stays in. Anime was often produced very fast and very cheaply so I am trying to replicate that effect.

2) I’m going to use multiple shades of colors to represent the flats, shadows, and the painted lines depicting where shadows will go.

3) I will include a shadow layer underneath the animation to give it a traditional 2D effect of having multiple cels piled up on top of each other.

4) When all is said and done I will run the whole thing through a VHS filter to really sell the idea this is a long lost animation from a bygone era.

I hope you like the results, I think all this attention to detail has really paid off and makes it look like an old 80’s anime of Link tossing a boomerang. I hope to make more of these and stitch them all together to make a commercial for the NES Zelda.

[ninseak]

I bought Brave Police J-Decker production pieces! (˶ˆᗜˆ˵)

I bought a few production pieces of BPJD via 'From Japan'. And I am super pleased! It's incredible to own these pieces from this anime, I will cherish them forever. And I got them together for around 200 dollars (excluding shipping). I bid for two listings and won both.

First are these pieces: 3 cels, 3 sketches, 1 background.

Scanned versions:

(All three layers edited together)

(Behind the cels)

When I bought it I hadn't realised that I would be getting three cels, let alone the sketches of the cels. I would like to look at it individually but they seem to have adhered together over time. And there's also the distinct vinegar smell from the cels degrading over time.

The second listing I won were these two large pieces: 1 sketch, 1 cel.

Scanned versions:

The sketch seems to be of a different frame.

(Behind the cel)

You can tell that some paper has stuck to the paint.

I love these so much. To own something from one of my fave anime and of my fave character is a special feeling. It's also great owning these for study for my own art.

I do want to frame the cel art one day!

Anyway, if any of you have any idea what episodes these cels are from then drop an ask or reply. I'll reblog this with the actual frames from the episodes once I do find out. ^^

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS ORIGINAL RALPH BAKSHI ANIMATION CELS

[acmeoop]

Look Out For The Red Car!!! “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” (1988)

[reyturnofbensolo]

Would love to have just one of these❣️😍

[daezedglownut]

Did I go to eBay and buy a cel bc it features my niche af rarepair otp?

You bet your sweet bippy, I did <_<

Also, I thought I was buying one cel - it’s THREE stacked! And matching gengas ;v;

The cels are stuck together, but I’m not about to wreck them by trying to unstick them… <_< as far as I’m concerned, it’s a metaphor that these guys are meant to be together sgdgfgwfsgrgs

[rockmiyabideusexmachina]

Been a while, but new cel time! Why not, for the 30th anniversary? THIS HAND OF MINE GLOWS WITH AN AWESOME POWER! IT'S BURNING GRIP TELLS ME TO DEFEAT YOU! HERE I GO! SHINING FINGERRRRRRR~!! It's an iconic double Shining Finger, featuring both Rain and Domon, from Episode 13 of G Gundam: "Big Pinch! The Enemies Are the Five Great Gundams!" Shiny green glow effect and all! Background is a decent facsimile, minus the pink effects. This frame is mostly faded out by the time it gets to it, as it transitions to the Shining Gundam overlayed, before focusing on the mecha's attack:

Scanned from: My Production Art Stash