
There will be a frame for the background, and a frame for each separate bird. In this example, lets use a two separate birds flying in the sky. Once all of the aspects of the frame are created, they are then placed on top of each other. It also allowed for the colour to be added after the outlines for the shot were finished, if required. When painting an image onto a cell, the outline of the cell (which would be in black) would be painted on the front, while the colour would be painted on the flipside of the cell.This meant that the colour looked cleaner (in terms of not having lots of brushstroke marks, as they could be hidden by the outline). Usually, one background image will be drawn for a scene, and then used repeatedly on cells to increase efficiency and lower the amount of time the production of the scene will take. This process was created inġ914, by a man named "Earl hurd". Which the objects (any image which was to be animated, or even static backgrounds) were painted directly. In terms of creating 2D animation, the cels were transparent sheets onto The video link below shows just how easily the material burnt and decomposed.

Sheets of celluloid would then be created to be drawn on, or put into strips for usage in a projector.Īn interesting and mildly humorous note, is how well documented the celluloid film strips were for exploding during usage in front of the burning hot projector beams during their early usage days. In terms of celluloids, this is a softening temperature of 60-97 degrees (Celsius) and a melting point of around 160C). Cel stands for "Celluloid", which was the first widely used thermoplastic (Meaning a plastic that becomes more bendable and moveable when heated to a certain temperature, which when cooled, will return to a more solid state.
