Cel Animation

I've decided to use a form of cel animation for my final piece rather than any of the others I have researched. In this method, characters are drawn on cels and laid over a static background drawing. This reduces the number of times an image has to be redrawn (source). Disney were well known for their use of cel animation, but they stopped using this process in 1990. Their last film made using it was The Little Mermaid.

My method is slightly different from the traditional one. Firstly I'm not using acetate mainly due to budget. Secondly I will be using After Effects to place the cel footage on the background rather than shooting it. You may be wondering how I've managed to do the frames without acetate. I actually used normal plain paper and a home made light box to draw the sequences.

You may remember one of my previous entries showing the penguin animation test consisting of about four frames. Below shows the continuation of that test with about eight frames drawn for the penguin.



The finished scene, which will be used in my final animation, will contain multiple penguins. I'm really quite proud of what I've managed to create and I hope you like it too.