Please note, this message only applies to the position of, . That What I like about the doctors ink is that it runs a super clean line and dries fairly fast (this is important for when you need to stack cels to trace). Like any thin plastic film, laser transparencies will attract dust and animal hair. This guide is designed for DIY animators and artists working non-commercially. So I supplement with cheap acrylics! 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. 
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. You dont want to be blowing a bunch of dust directly onto your wet ink, inviting it to be baked in and stuck to your cels permanently. I buy them in generic packs of 100 off of ebay (never buy them from an office supply store those prices are wild!). If you insist on trying it, use the cool/no heat setting as hot air from a blowdryer can warp laser transparencies pretty easily. A lot of student animated films could not afford the ink and paint process, Tones. had artists who could ink lines on a cel with a brush, sometime with The first place I began to learn this craft was at a commercial studio in Using the light table helped make sure your painting Have you tried Flashe paint? 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! Maybe this is my comic book inking bias coming into play, but I prefer my ink linework to be clean af, or at least for the ink to dry exactly as I laid it down, sans interference from oily fingerprints or palm grease smudges (this probably makes it sound like I have exceptionally dirty hands. If you have submitted applications for other postings, you may still be in consideration. Cel, even with the tissue between, is generally thin enough that you can work without a light table. You neednt wait for a complete dry before starting your second pass the appearance of a robust puddin skin on your first coat of paint should be enough! I drop them into rubbing alcohol immediately after using them and keep them super clean. So when digital ink and paint came along, the animators were so happy since 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. Nasan, I don't know what pigments Cartoon Colour uses for its various pigments, but the fade properties would depend on the pigments. This saved animators the stress of redrawing backgrounds and other static images, as well as creating an overall uniform appearance. We ink the fronts, then paint the backs. If you have submitted applications for other postings, you may still be in consideration. In addition to airborne particulate, laser transparencies also seem to slurp up the trace amounts of oil present on human fingertips and/or canine footpads (depending on who you live with). Maybe at some point Ill update this article with some explanatory pics. You do you. The gist of it is: light downshooter-style with two lights shining down from opposite 45-ish degree angles. wasn't too thin. Cartoon Colour sadly no longer produces their brand of Cel Vinyl paints, carefully cut out all the color parts of the drawing, glue down all the Somebody had hair when he worked with Bakshi. (Later on, during shooting, a can of compressed air will be your friend). Generic art store brands work fine for this. But thats good! Scanners: Scanning your animation is easier, cheaper and takes up less space than using a down shooter or camera stand. And not caring about cleanliness in the process. I have seen it at local art stores for closer to $7. 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! The introduction of Cel Animation introduced layers (like Photoshop layers) in which animators could draw certain parts of each frame separately. Crunch's coat color and hat, other artists painted the shaded coat color to Recycle found plastic sheets if you can! 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. Waiting for the paint to dry takes much longer than the ink. But after all, Cel Ink and Painting Thank you again for your interest in working with us. Well maybe that deserves a few ad clicks to add a little something to the Blog's Lets begin. I see a lot of rotoscope cel painters use this strategy. I have used discarded plastic sheets a painter friend had collected for me from packaging on canvases at a wine and painting gig he worked. What does it mean to reclaim ink and paint as an animation filmmaker? I only have to replace the cartridge about once every 12 to 18 months. A note on LF, it was really frustrating shipping to Canada with them. That said, if youve got a drying rack and time to wait, the ketchup method TM may be right for you. Scanning also keeps the art flat. I use an A4 ~$50 scanner from Staples for ALL my art. copy linework onto cel back, then paint on top of that)? 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? color. Ive never tried this, but see Anna Firths recent tutorial on how she approaches animating on cels for the full details.). that we painters would be painting once they were done with the scene. Try to get it in as big a bottle as you can afford. We worked as a team where several people were painting one color like Capn' I let you know if I hear anything. The loss of institutional knowledge driven by these layoffs is staggering. Buying Paint: This is probably where you will do the most exploring. They cover a lot of the history and adapt cel workflows for digital processes very well. "Each sequence needed a different color mood" I'm curious about this thing. 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! And we dont want streaks; when applying paint to a transparent medium, streaks = seethrough areas where the background shows through.
Can you learn to draw from an AI teacher? I got to paint colors onto cels for Cap'n Crunch animated commercials in There are two main ways to ink cel by hand. Use my crosshair method on cel. I remember there Anyway, thanks to Youtube powerful resourcesi found a "making of" video of Fire & Ice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPuTVjpuom8At 6:27 there's a familiar face :D. "600 paintings for the film at a rate of about 11 a week"I guess that means you weren't sitting around waiting for the muse to waft in on an errant breeze. Hello James,This post takes me back to when I worked as an "inker & painter" for a small, SanFrancisco animation studio (Imagination Inc.) that produced Sesame Street films in the early '70's. is a lost art. Ill update the article once Ive tried that. 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! Tape your peg bar to your work surface (downshooter base / desk / table). If theres a printmaker in your life (or you are one yourself) you could use a screenprinting-type drying rack. Youre resourceful! DIY Animation Club co-founder Dave Merson Hess taught animation and developed curriculum for Aurora Picture Show's youth workshops, 2014-2018, including stints as a resident artist in the Arts in Medicine programs at MD Anderson Cancer Center and Texas Childrens' Hospital. 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. When mixing your paint do not add water we want this paint to be as thick as it can be! He also started Rush Process, a Gulf Coast-based festival celebrating animators who work with physical media, which ran from 2015 to 2018. This is a time-consuming step but important to get right if you want your frames to align. the cels that they painted. Really. Takes some getting used to, but really nice if you like fluid, opaque paint without a lot of texture. Also, we can be a bit more carefree with our painting; since the ink lines will effectively be overlaid when viewed from the other side, we dont have to worry about accidently painting over them. I worry the myth that cel is a luxury process reserved for the high budget animator is scaring a lot of artists away from trying out this cool process. For inking with a technical pen, I use Rapidograph Universal for Paper and Film. I am messy and you might find some of my process overlooks some habits you might want to adopt. This way you can avoid the headache of $700 acme hole punchers or sneaking into animation centres to punch paper. you could click to add a color and you can change it throughout without much 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.
I use the word "applied" because you had to push the paint around on the 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 used cel vinyl here in a very painterly way. I encourage you to do the 10 for $10 and try a small loop. Get 10f (copy paper sized) instead of 12f (bigger) unless you have a good reason. There also were several artists with steady hands who were inking the cels Most of us dont. My housemates did not love this. :)I will re-watch the movie paying more attention to the color palettes of backgrounds! In my experience 45 mins to an hour is usually enough dry time between coats. They are also scarce and expensive, and the current pricepoint puts them out of reach for most animators (including myself). 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. Youll see later that I encourage you to rethink the way you use cel to be resourceful. Totally bypass needing a dip pen by using a small brush. You can also work in the margins of used cel and edit out the old stuff or even wash cel. I encourage you to explore in this area. 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. Well be painting that on in the next step. Ive always applied paint in two passes, with one exception. We all would talk a group as we worked and often listened to music, radio or If you can, place cels into manila folders and store them on edge. I also love colour, hence the username. Light tables: Led light pads used for tattoo artists are running about $20-30 online. the past has never been very successful. Strategies for efficiency and cost-cutting. Luca, the layout drawings were done in pencil by Tim Callahan over a rough template based on the live action. As in the potentially future classic DIY cel mnemonic I just made up, strokes lead to streaks. Cartoon Colour sadly no longer produces their brand of Cel Vinyl paints, the ink and paint department was in an office space a few floors above. but, luckily, I already found my own back-up alternatives to even make up for the death of Cel-Vinyl! color parts, draw over the clean black outline and then each colored paper A handful of favorites, all of which either were made on, or incorporate sequences that use, animation cels. All these processes looked great, but took a lot of time and people to 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. (I guess the great exception here is the underground animation of the ~60s-`80s). Never apply with strokes. If you work on overhead sheets or found plastic, the ink and paint may crack and age poorly. my first job in animation was as a cel painter. Martin's Black Star Waterproof India Ink Hicarb. Then it was back to the inking and painting.
The Multiplication of Traces: Xerographic Reproduction and One Hundred and One Dalmatians.. Buying a Pen: I combine doctor ink with a dip pen. Proud Dog Mum. Ive also tried putting a sheet of regular copy paper between each cel. Want more awesome tutorials? to the cel, most used a rapidograph pen with ink for acetate. Thanks for the post! I think Cartoon Color went out of business. This technique can also be used in larger areas with a larger rounded brush. too thick and not too watery. 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. Ive got an entry level black and white Brother laser printer (cost = ~$100), and use the toner cartridges made for it. I use Dr. Ph. Please note, this message only applies to the position ofInker and Painter(826568BR). But I do think that theres something very lovely to the eyeballs about cel paint that is thick enough to be opaque, and for that level of opaqueness to be vaguely consistent from frame to frame. As a result, this gave pre-cel animation a varied appearance, as everything drawn looked slightly different from the previous frame. illuminated the clear cels from below as the paint was applied on the Dave is currently an MFA candidate in Experimental Animation at Calarts. My punch can handle about 3 cels at once without jamming. Because cel painting technique has little to do with painting on paper or canvas (or so I am told). In undergrad I would buy cel paint in little 2oz squeeze bottles at Cartoon Colour they sold a great range of colors and it dried fast. The backgrounds are gorgeous and vibrant. All images and text are copyright 2020 James Gurney and/or their respective owners. 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. Could this be due to a quirk of the particular studio? Ive heard rumours about sign paint, nail polish, etc. In this case the layers are all part of the same painting on illustration board. 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. Dave is has cleanliness and cel hygiene down to an art! Buying/Finding Cel: A lot of people use overhead transparencies. OK now that we have the basics down, lets totally rethink this all with cost and material efficiency in mind. Please practice material safety and please do NOT put acrylic paint down the sink. Or did things change with the switch to photostat/photocopy (ie. Since my cels are in an IKEA hacked multiplane, there are some minor reflections already so Im embracing it as a part of the visual style. The line becomes buried under the paint creating really nice clean lines. The author acknowledges the original drawing was made by its creator Herge and claims no ownership over the design. ONE DISCLAIMER: Real cel is stretchy. Its one of my favourite surfaces for illustrating on. 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. If you printed, youre ready to flip and paint the backs of your cels. Gloves: You will see white cotton gloves suggested as mandatory for working with cel. colors and even worked well with the finished background art. If you are outside of the US, just keep this in mind and maybe seek alternatives. cel and avoid stroking it on. Before digging in here, you should flip through this really thorough guide by Ingo Raschka on cel processes with a digital angle. Im curious about parchment paper, which is used for nonstick baking. Colour in Culver City, CA were it was made at the time. Ingo details really well in their guide how to plan the layers of paint. Maybe youre going for that. run off to get something. Ill use some production images from my 3-channel work, Pine Processionary to show how I work on cel. I havent found this to be much of an issue. I once shot the back of Pine Processionary just out of curiosity. Another would be adding the face flesh color and I will say I'm pretty sadden if they can't make it anymore, or allow the patents or IP to be sold to someone else who could take over manufacturing it. This keeps the ink from clumping all over the nib and messing with line weight. 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. I got to paint colors onto cels for Cap'n Crunch animated commercials in Damaged or dull ones I set aside to use for different line weights. It eliminates the need for complex lighting (cel is reflective so shooting it under camera requires careful lighting). I keep the paper between the cel as I trace. DO NOT put this ink in a fountain pen!
correct it. If you are scanning, PLEASE do a color test of how your paints look in your scanner BEFORE you paint. I did notice on their website something seems to have happened (possible death in the family?). 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?) I must admit, as careful I am about inking, Im much messier when I flip my dried inked cels for painting! Ok this might seem silly to write out but sometimes this gets missed. This method gets a little messy though. 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. They seem to have gone out of business. Check Out My Free Resources and Tutorials Page. Continue painting your cel and occasionally flip your artwork over to ensure you are on the right track. Illustration! push or remove an excess of paint over the inked lines or other areas of If you want to use cel minimally you can paint your background art on cel and add your animation layer another way. give a little 3D effect. Its totally valid if you just want to test your cel skills on a single cel. reversed cel drawing. 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. however another company now sells paints for animation cels called Toon PP was my first work on cel back in 2018. Reconstructing a Face from a Single Image, Establishing shot for Fire and Ice by James Gurney. Also! Alternatives: glass tables with lights underneath, window on a sunny day, old computer monitors with white screen, bike light in a large Tupperware, get resourceful and creative with whats around you! tip jar?! Cels made specifically for traditional animation are thick, durable, and lay flat. You dont want to store your cels so the paint from one comes into direct contact with the ink of another. Other 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. however another company now sells paints for animation cels called Toon You paint behind the line. Youre probably not going to be inking and painting in a NASA cleanroom, but oil causes way more problems than dust, and I would strongly advise you to invest in a pair of $2 cotton gloves, especially if youre inking by hand. Theyll fit 6 or 8 frames per sheet instead of one frame per sheet. After some experiments, Ive settled on using laser transparencies instead of cels. You can confirm the current status of those applications on your. For an in-depth, eye-opening look at this story, check out Mindy Johnsons amazing book, Ink & Paint, The Women of Walt Disneys Animation. If you have a trad animator in your region it could be worth asking if they have cel lying around that they wont be using. And other factors popped up, that cel paint I read elsewhere that they handle similar to Acrylics, but can be a little tricky to use. 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. You dont need good lighting nor a nice camera nor capture software. This post owes a heavy debt to Ingo Raschkas instant classic zine offering, Making Cel Cartoons(get it! 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. The paint could be It bends with the ink as it dries and ages. add color marker or color pencil to it. As with drying after inking, youre going to have to be patient. 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. With my printer, dropping a stack of transparencies into the regular paper tray leads to jams and misfeeds every time. Buying Ink: I like to ink by hand. 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). 5. The animation drawings were created in the studio on the first floor and You needed a team of painters which had to several weeks to a month to Some would use color paper and I will say that one friend who really knows paint, and who I asked for advice after the fact, told me to avoid the specific brand of generic art store gouache I used, so my bad results are likely specific to that brand, and not gouache more generally. 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. Maybe even an old sock would work because you mostly need to protect the cel from where you rest your hand as you draw. Alcohol wont rust. 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. The figures (lower right) are registered on top of the painting. All the cel vinyl paint came from Cartoon Chicago called Sinnott and Associates, who at the time, produced all To be honest I dont bother with this. I will say working with everyone in one room was the best thing of the job, 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). Other studios 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! was a whole other set of skills where you had to ink a solid and strong line The pressure from stacking them can lead to additional sticking. Required fields are marked *. Ive also tried pigmenting white screen-printing ink I found in a dumpster and that worked fairly well. The big takeaway is: the ink and the paint go on OPPOSITE sides of the cel. Let your first pass dry partially (never reapply over areas that are still wet! wait for it to dry until you could add more color to it. Hit each cel front and back with compressed air before shooting a frame. Unfortunately most art stores only stock basic colors (some only stock black and white).
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