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 ...

In “traditional” animation, like Aladdin or Bugs Bunny cartoons, the images are painted on clear celluloid sheets, known as “cel” animation, one frame at a time. This type of animation can ...

Q. My son received this original hand-painted celluloid drawing used in a Walt Disney production. He would like to know its value, and where he could sell it. –Mrs. Carson P. Stiff Jr., Roanoke, Va.

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 ...

Cel animation let animators split up the work by painting parts of a scene onto different transparent sheets. By combining these sheets, they could make an entire scene and save the time of ...

The next sheet of paper would be placed on top and ... For much of the 20th century Disney animations used the cel animation technique. A still from the Wallace and Gromit 1992 film, A Grand ...

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 ...

The Getty Conservation Institute announced today it is partnering with Disney to study deterioration in historic animation cels. The collaboration is part of a long-term project to develop ways to ...