Community School of Naples

Cel animation is the process of inking and painting by hand on celluloid, transparent sheets of paper and then photographing each successive image on a light board to create a two-dimensional animation. Most famously, early Disney movies, such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella, used cel animation techniques in ways that had never previously been done before. When animating via cel animation, it takes 24 individual cels to fill out just ONE SECOND of film, so the total Cinderella movie required nearly 200,000 hand-painted cels!

 

In Creative Studies, we learned about cel animation and then had the opportunity to trace, draw, and paint our own Disney characters using the cel animation technique with a light board.