CEL ANIMATION

Cel animation is when you have something such as a background for a certain scene, each single different movement/frame has to be drawn onto a transparent piece of paper which is ontop of the background so it gives you a much better feel of where you want each movement to be on the background.

this technique is still used, some people who make cartoons use it, if they were making a film or something such as that, it would take ages, over 100,000 drawings maybe, depending on how long the movie is going to be, this is where programmes come into use, such as adobe Flash, it may not look the same but it is much more efficient if you want to animate.

Adobe Flash is a programme which you can use to animate, short animations or big ones, your choice, it is perfect for beginners who want to animate in this certain technique.

the video which is to your right is a little quick tutorial of making a basic animation in flash, it just shows you how easy it is to use this software.

in the video which has a thumbnail of a cat is a tutorial on how to do cel animation, the reason. The reason she has the sheets together is so she can place where the next movement will be based, it is more precise and much more efficient than if she did not do it in this certain way and she numbers them so she does not mix the movements up, this would result in them being in the wrong order and completely mess everything up,

also she uses the others to trace to the next one, when she adds the next movement onto it, makes it much easier.

also here is a short animation which I got from youtube, you can see for this, the person has only had to draw 2 different movements, but if its slowed down which is in the video, you can see how many he has actually drawn probably atleast 20+