Ok this might seem silly to write out but sometimes this gets missed. Most of us dont. carefully cut out all the color parts of the drawing, glue down all the Maybe youre going for that. to the cel, most used a rapidograph pen with ink for acetate. We got those approved by the director, Ralph Bakshi, and then it was up to us to control the palette to keep to that mood. And we dont want streaks; when applying paint to a transparent medium, streaks = seethrough areas where the background shows through. Leaving in the mess-ups, the paint splatters, the accidents, the lightening flash of a blonde dog hair of owning and uplifting analog ink and paint as something personal and important an essential and wrongfully maligned part of the animation process. Paint cel for just the background. In the past Ive laid my cels out to air dry on every surface available, including the dinner table, my desk, kitchen counter, and floor. When painting cels, youre going to want to apply in globs or blobs, also known as dabs or smooshes depending on the region of the world in which you live. Then you will shoot the cel from the side opposite from the ink and paint. I drop them into rubbing alcohol immediately after using them and keep them super clean. my first job in animation was as a cel painter. I encourage you to do the 10 for $10 and try a small loop. As a result, this gave pre-cel animation a varied appearance, as everything drawn looked slightly different from the previous frame. Chicago. A lot of student animated films could not afford the ink and paint process, had artists who could ink lines on a cel with a brush, sometime with Follow this Step by Step Tutorial to see how you can make one yourself. Before digging in here, you should flip through this really thorough guide by Ingo Raschka on cel processes with a digital angle. The painting process was fun and easy, especially for someone like me who is a bit clumsy with a brush. run off to get something. I like to use these nibs with a nib holder like this. Instead, Id recommend putting one sheet of tracing paper between each cel, so temperature fluctuations dont liquify your paint and cause adjacent cels to stick together. Thank you for your interest in The Walt Disney Company and for taking the time to apply to the position ofInker and Painter (826568BR). Tones. I want to suggest a few new shortcuts with a focus on low budget and tech accessibility here. Buying a Pen: I combine doctor ink with a dip pen. with a small piece of tape that marks where the edge of each cel should sit during punching) to ensure that all of your punch holes align with each other. give a little 3D effect. Two slices of bread (the ink on top, the paint on the bottom) holding onto a thin slice of savory tofurky (the cel). You do you. I have made works on cel for little to no cost with a combination of material knowledge and rethinking how I use cel and I think you can too! You can also work in the margins of used cel and edit out the old stuff or even wash cel. If you want to use cel minimally you can paint your background art on cel and add your animation layer another way. that we painters would be painting once they were done with the scene. If you inked manually, I would wait anywhere from 6 to 18 hours for your ink to dry completely. These "Cel-Vinyl"-type alternatives that I found are known as Holbein Acryla Gouache, Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint, Americana Acrylic Paint, Folk Art Acrylic Paint, Michaels Craft Smart Acrylic Paint and, yes, Chromacolour UK Animation Cell Paint! The loss of institutional knowledge driven by these layoffs is staggering. Whichever you use, you must make a paper guide (e.g. This method gets a little messy though. I let you know if I hear anything. produce them to meet a deadline. I will say working with everyone in one room was the best thing of the job, Another would be adding the face flesh color and I happened across a generous donation of real cel that got me through my biggest cel projects but you can invest in cel at Lightfoot. Ill put some tech notes in the bottom for anyone who is newer to my tutorials. Tape your peg bar to your work surface (downshooter base / desk / table). Ill get into some strategy later but as far as picking an ink, youll want something crusty, opaque and appropriate for the pen or brush you are using. Sometimes I see cel on Ebay or CL. Thank you again for your interest in working with us. I am messy and you might find some of my process overlooks some habits you might want to adopt. You dont need good lighting nor a nice camera nor capture software. When traditionally directors couldnt have been further from the process, whether that be due to overseas outsourcing or the unfair labeling of ink and paint as a pink collar job. add color marker or color pencil to it. tip jar?! The big takeaway is: the ink and the paint go on OPPOSITE sides of the cel. I must admit, as careful I am about inking, Im much messier when I flip my dried inked cels for painting! Buying Paint: This is probably where you will do the most exploring. Wooden toothpicks or chop sticks were used the cel and avoid stroking it on. Cartoon Colour sadly no longer produces their brand of Cel Vinyl paints, (Loved that job, and it helped pay my tuition for the SanFrancisco Art Institute).Bill, Thanks, James! Get 10f (copy paper sized) instead of 12f (bigger) unless you have a good reason. One off cel illustrations let you go wild with detail in a way that you cant really do with animation. Generic art store brands work fine for this. Takes some getting used to, but really nice if you like fluid, opaque paint without a lot of texture. This is the same concept as paintings on restaurant windows at Christmas. Somebody had hair when he worked with Bakshi. This is so cool. drawing would be glued to a clear animation cel. If you printed, youre ready to flip and paint the backs of your cels. The best alternatives to Cartoon Colour Cel-Vinyl paint I found are Holbein Acryla Gouache, Chromacolour UK Cell Paint, Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint, Americana Acrylic Paint, Folk Art Acrylic Paint and, if you have a Michaels art supply store in town, Michaels Craft Smart! In examining them carefully, I noticed that a lot of these cels had the ink on the *backs* of the cels (on same side as the paint). This is a time-consuming step but important to get right if you want your frames to align. Like any thin plastic film, laser transparencies will attract dust and animal hair. Ive tried several potential alternatives in the past year, including watercolor gouache (love the opacity and broad range of off-the-shelf color options, but for me it dried a bit stiff and flaked off eventually), tempera (beaded and flaked even worse), oils (never dried! so many films had cleaned up versions as pencil test with no color. You may find a small $20-30 led light pad useful though. Cel Animation was a game changer in traditional animation. I would often ship it within the US and carry it back on the plane with me after visiting to save like $100. If you are outside of the US, just keep this in mind and maybe seek alternatives. As in the potentially future classic DIY cel mnemonic I just made up, strokes lead to streaks. I remember there Your email address will not be published. Other studios Typically I draw in black ink on paper, then scan my drawings, align the scans (stay tuned for a whole post about this), then print image sequences directly onto laser transparencies. Yes, very few people working today have any interest in the traditional cel process, but for anyone who is excited at its possibilities, its a chilling thing to think about. All images and text are copyright 2020 James Gurney and/or their respective owners. Not sure about expensive gouache, because I was scared off by the price. I go through all of my cels sequentially doing the first pass, and by the time I get to the end, my first cel is usually dry enough to take a second application. too thick and not too watery. Ink and Paint was staffed largely by highly skilled women artists, who were given very few opportunities in an industry which absolutely could not function without them (until layoffs driven by the development of xerography and digital paint tools, in that order, rendered them obsolete). Try to get it in as big a bottle as you can afford. Its very opaque, and sticks to plastic surfaces beautifully. You can play around with this layering of course. They seem to have gone out of business. Hold the dryer at least 12 from the cel surface to prevent the air pressure from moving the ink. You needed a team of painters which had to several weeks to a month to correct it. "Each sequence needed a different color mood" I'm curious about this thing. Strategies for efficiency and cost-cutting. "Down-to-earth, step-by-step approach" Nathan Fowkes, Painting on location in opaque water media, Austin Briggs's Philosophy of Illustration, Science Fiction Exhibition Opens in Athens. As I remember we were instructed to just "push" the paint around up to the inked outline on the back of the cell to get total coverage and preserve he inked line, instead of brushing it on like you would on any other support. If you insist on trying it, use the cool/no heat setting as hot air from a blowdryer can warp laser transparencies pretty easily. If you use a blowdryer, choose a relatively clean room, and dust/swiff/sweep that room first, before bringing your cels into it. This is great because they are cheap and you can get some really good mileage. Let your first pass dry partially (never reapply over areas that are still wet! mixed to create other colors, shades and tints. Thanks for the post! It might feel like a gimmick that my big secret to making cel cheap is working in short-form format but we see this also in say 16mm film production where an artist will cut film footage into digital footage to use it as a spot treatment so why not treat cel as something to sprinkle in. Gloves: You will see white cotton gloves suggested as mandatory for working with cel. The 8oz version is an investment but ends up being light years cheaper than the standard 3/4oz bottles. But after all, Cel Ink and Painting I like to paint by laying out all the cels on a big table and then one color at a time just slapping the paint on. As Ive finally settled on a workflow I like, I thought itd be a good time to share some tools and processes for making animation on cels. Drying time depends on the ink used, how liberally it was applied, and the temperature, humidity, and ventilation in the room where youve set your cels to dry. It's a shame that the company that made Cartoon Colour Cel-Vinyl paint (for long since 1947) had abruptly went out of business (due to CGI animated feature films being more popular and/or a loss of a company family member?) Also! Or did things change with the switch to photostat/photocopy (ie. You also had to make sure the paint was not We ink the fronts, then paint the backs. Alternatively, you can create separate background to place behind your cel animation design, or leave the background blank as I have. I am very straight-ahead and love tracing cel to cel for Extreme Precision. This guide is designed for DIY animators and artists working non-commercially. Continue painting your cel and occasionally flip your artwork over to ensure you are on the right track. I have seen it at local art stores for closer to $7. These came from a generous Ebay seller who gave me a deal based on it being for educational purposes. Have you ever wanted to create your own Hand Painted Cel Animation, but dont know how? The animation drawings were created in the studio on the first floor and Ultimately, going through this very difficult process myself left me in awe of the incredible skill, draftsmanship, and technical expertise present in ink and paint departments in the studio system as it existed in the mid 20th century US. Based on the information you provided, we are considering other candidates whose background and experience more closely align with the qualifications and requirements of this position. Another note: I absolutely love the weird tissue paper they put between cels. I switch the nib every 15 min or so for a fresh one, dropping the old one in alcohol to soak before cleaning. Ive also tried pigmenting white screen-printing ink I found in a dumpster and that worked fairly well. wasn't too thin. Check Out My Free Resources and Tutorials Page. The line becomes buried under the paint creating really nice clean lines. Required fields are marked *. It's too bad not many of them survived.How well does Cel-Vinyl hold up against fading? Chicago. So when digital ink and paint came along, the animators were so happy since I also love colour, hence the username. 5. Its one of my favourite surfaces for illustrating on. I have the lid removed and I use a stack of paper taped together as my lid to hold the artwork flat. They are also scarce and expensive, and the current pricepoint puts them out of reach for most animators (including myself). Martin's Black Star Waterproof India Ink Hicarb. Theyll fit 6 or 8 frames per sheet instead of one frame per sheet. Anywhere from 24 to 72 hours. If you are hungry for more cel knowledge, I always like to suggest this this piece of history: Hannah Franks essay The Multiplication of Traces: Xerographic Reproduction and One Hundred and One Dalmatians.. In the mean time, have fun with process and feel free to reach out with any questions or findings! Your email address will not be published. Im curious about parchment paper, which is used for nonstick baking. All these processes looked great, but took a lot of time and people to That It worked pretty well, but it lead to more sticking than tracing paper. Punch Those Cels There also were several artists with steady hands who were inking the cels When mixing your paint do not add water we want this paint to be as thick as it can be! Some would animate everything on paper, then do an inked drawing and either The figures (lower right) are registered on top of the painting. This helps sponge up any ink that didnt dry all the way and keeps it off the cel being traced onto and it creates and onion-skin effect to help see which layer lines are on. Illustration! Maybe it wont! If youre really worried about flickery reflections due to the floppiness of these transparencies and uneven paint thickness, you could put a small sheet of tempered glass (or regular glass borrowed from any picture frame) on top of your cel and bg, to hold them flat. If you can, place cels into manila folders and store them on edge. Recycle found plastic sheets if you can! This Tin Tin hand painted cel animation sheet was created as a birthday present and photos documenting the process were used only for this free tutorial. Please use respectfully! This technique can also be used in larger areas with a larger rounded brush. Here's one I worked on, adding the shading on the Soggy characters. Cheap scanners will have no regard for your nice paint. Also wow, Im halfway through the article and I still cant spell gouache from memory! With my printer, dropping a stack of transparencies into the regular paper tray leads to jams and misfeeds every time. For an in-depth, eye-opening look at this story, check out Mindy Johnsons amazing book, Ink & Paint, The Women of Walt Disneys Animation. I did this for this video. Well be painting that on in the next step. the Cap'n Crunch commercials. It eliminates the need for complex lighting (cel is reflective so shooting it under camera requires careful lighting). Here are some recommendations: I love this screenprinting ink. This keeps the ink from clumping all over the nib and messing with line weight. For inking with a brush or dip pen, I use Black Star India ink, which was recommended to me by animator/director/generous DIY info sharer Anna Firth. If you work on overhead sheets or found plastic, the ink and paint may crack and age poorly. Maybe at some point Ill update this article with some explanatory pics. It does shorten the active time, but overall its much slower; squeeze bottle application increased the average paint thickness, which lead to a drying time of over 3 days in mild Fall weather! You could also animate linework in Photoshop, TVPaint, AE, Flash/Animate or your software of choice, then export and print a png image sequence. I know from experience that the hardest part of cel is figuring out the materials and workflow so Im going to do the technical breakdown for you. This would accomplish something similar to the swing-away pressure plate found on an Oxberry animation camera stand. I havent found this to be much of an issue. Maybe you run with an experimental crowd, but to me that wouldnt even be a sandwich, itd be a cold cut relaxing on a stack of bread. I used cel vinyl here in a very painterly way. What does it mean to reclaim ink and paint as an animation filmmaker? Luca, the layout drawings were done in pencil by Tim Callahan over a rough template based on the live action. ONE DISCLAIMER: Real cel is stretchy. OK now that we have the basics down, lets totally rethink this all with cost and material efficiency in mind. Were you free to choose the color palette for each scene, or did you have a guideline to follow, for example a colored storyboard, a color script or similar things? Using your permanent marker, ink your finalised design onto the clear binding cover.TIP: Add lines that wont be in the final image for easier colouring. Scanning also keeps the art flat. I use Dr. Ph. There are two main ways to ink cel by hand. PP was my first work on cel back in 2018. This post owes a heavy debt to Ingo Raschkas instant classic zine offering, Making Cel Cartoons(get it! illuminated the clear cels from below as the paint was applied on the But thats good! You paint behind the line. Some people swear by gouache but in my experience, at least when paired with laser transparencies, cheap gouache will start to flake in a few months. I started with big brushes and used the airbrush to help separate the foreground from the background. complete the painting before the final animation was shot. Ive always applied paint in two passes, with one exception. After graduating college,my first job in animation was as a cel painter. This saved animators the stress of redrawing backgrounds and other static images, as well as creating an overall uniform appearance. Try not to let the nibs sit in water or dry in the open with water because they will rust. Luxurious! No more paint brushes, or paint to slowly push around and Can you learn to draw from an AI teacher? Then it was back to the inking and painting. Then go back and do a spot pass just a little touch up on the blank spots or thinner areas, using smaller splorches (aka dots or stipples). I think Cartoon Color went out of business. color parts, draw over the clean black outline and then each colored paper In this one test, I applied paint in ketchup-style stacked squiggles with a tiny squeeze bottle (squeeze bottle came from the dollar section of an art store). Maybe this is because I have no formal training in painting (outside of elementary school fingerpainting, which technically does count as formal training), and have no clue how to properly apply paint. You can confirm the current status of those applications on your. push or remove an excess of paint over the inked lines or other areas of In this case the layers are all part of the same painting on illustration board. I then animated in paper over the clear backgrounds and then digitally colored and composited. The idea here is that your greasy little hands will keep the ink and paint from sticking. That said, if youve got a drying rack and time to wait, the ketchup method TM may be right for you. I can easily but Americana/Folk Art/Apple Barrel/Craft Smart acrylic paints from my local Michaels in Jackson, Michigan, USA and, yes, the only way to buy Acryla Gouache paint and Chromacolour UK Animation Cell Paint is only online thru Blick Art Materials (for Holbein Acryla Gouache paint) and Chromacolour UK (for Chromacolour Animation Cell Paint) for goodness sake! On a microscopic level, we all do! If you have access to an artist run centre or university with an animation stand with a good lighting setup then by all means shoot on that! however another company now sells paints for animation cels called Toon Reconstructing a Face from a Single Image, Establishing shot for Fire and Ice by James Gurney. everyone would break for lunch, either with food they had brought or would (Later on, during shooting, a can of compressed air will be your friend). You can probably find something around your house like the long plastic caps that are on spray mister bottles. you may pick up more paint then you put down). Totally bypass needing a dip pen by using a small brush. The author acknowledges the original drawing was made by its creator Herge and claims no ownership over the design. Im going to rush through this step there are a lot of ideas out there for DIY downshooter setups, but thats kind of beyond the scope of this article. Peg bars/punching: I use a 1/4 round peg bar (you can make one using dowel and some hot glue) and a regular hole puncher (just get one with adjustable heads. Its a little funny because I add the background back in digitally when you would usually work on cel to shoot it layered over the background. Cel, even with the tissue between, is generally thin enough that you can work without a light table. Ingo details really well in their guide how to plan the layers of paint. color. And other factors popped up, that cel paint Youll be ok. As a result of working this way, the camera (or scanner) sees the flat side of the paint, which is smooth-jazz smooth when viewed through the cel (unlike the bumpy side of the paint, which is bumpy and casts shadows all over the place). Thanks for the suggestions Michael, I would think Ceramcoat would be a good brand to go with given how much that typical sells for against other craft paints. That said, the dustiness, the grittiness, the visual anomalies and microfilth fluctuating from frame to frame is actually part of what I love about the DIY approach to cel. You can use this as a clue in your search. Tones. pupils. however another company now sells paints for animation cels called Toon It is punched so you can also use this for animating on if you are wild. I use the word "applied" because you had to push the paint around on the is a lost art. I got a great tip from Maija Burnett recently that you can stack a bunch of thin mailing boxes and put one cel into each a cheap solution with a much smaller footprint! Dave is has cleanliness and cel hygiene down to an art! needs time to dry, can help it a little bit with a hand held hair drier, but the cels that they painted. has written up her cel animation process (using overhead transparency film), and shared a studio tour, Making It Up As I Go Along: Phoebe Parsons on the Terror Fervor Process, I recently purchased a very large lot of scene folders containing cels from a few different 1980s Saturday Morning Cartoons. Then it would be 12 or 1pm and The introduction of Cel Animation introduced layers (like Photoshop layers) in which animators could draw certain parts of each frame separately. DISCLAIMER: This tutorial and the author in no way, shape or form promotes copying artwork of any kind to resell or claim as ones own. Some would use color paper and Put On A Pair Of Cotton Gloves animation studios choose a different look to add color to their animation. If you have any inside info, Id love to. copy linework onto cel back, then paint on top of that)? All the cel vinyl paint came from Cartoon Scanners: Scanning your animation is easier, cheaper and takes up less space than using a down shooter or camera stand. For example, Ive outlined the circle around TinTin and Snowy in order to create an accurate circle.I will remove the circle on the hand painted cel animation at a later stage in the tutorial. Ive heard rumours about sign paint, nail polish, etc. I see buying special gloves as a weird barrier to working on cel so I use the nitrile gloves I use for dying hair but I have also used a knit winter glove with some of the fingers cut off. Ive got an entry level black and white Brother laser printer (cost = ~$100), and use the toner cartridges made for it. Could this be due to a quirk of the particular studio? Dave is currently an MFA candidate in Experimental Animation at Calarts. You dont want to store your cels so the paint from one comes into direct contact with the ink of another. I scan my cels because I am a scanimator. In my experience 45 mins to an hour is usually enough dry time between coats. But at this point cel paint is nearly impossible to find. Before cels were introduced, backgrounds, characters and objects were all drawn on one sheet, with everything having to be redrawn for each frame. small light boxes on top. :)I will re-watch the movie paying more attention to the color palettes of backgrounds!
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