Cel Animation

Cel Animation

A cel is a sheet of transparent cellulose acetate used as a medium for painting animation frames. The reason it is transparent is so the pages can be laid on top of each other to create different layers and backgrounds. the movement of the characters is then made by taking pictures and slightly moving the main object. 

Advantages to using Cel Animation

You do not have to keep redrawing the background.

The background does not shake as much because it's the exact same.

Disadvantages of using Cel Animation

It can be quite costly depending on how many frames you create.

It can also be very time consuming depending on how many frames you create.

The inventors of Cel Animation are Earl Hurd and John Bray in 1910 and the year it was first used was 1914

 Two well known examples of Cel Animation are The Simpsons and Beavis and Butt-Head.

Below are Two examples of cell animation.