Cel Animation Process (DIY)

[@samus88]

Dude, every time someone asks me why I still watch old cartoons, like all theatrical shorts by Disney/Warner/MGM (and others), like... it's art. The amount of work that went into any 6-7minute long short is amazing. Not only the plotting/writing/conceptualizing/gags/etc, but the actual drawing, inking, painting and filming. Heck, the organizing of the cells themselves, those sheets they used, they needed to label each cell and know the order to film them in, etc. It's baffling how most people don't even know how these things were made. They are a true art form.

[@LordBackuro]

It’s more challenging and a creative challenge, like that always creates good art. Which is why i think old animated stuff generally was so much better, because 1. aesthetically it just was more beautiful because it wasn’t too clean or cheap 2. it challenged the artist, they literally didn’t have much access to digital programs and shit to copy paste stuff. Or loose the little nooks n crannies and detail. It didn’t loose the ✨Aesthetic✨ While it is more expensive and a pain in the ass, it in the long term created SO Much better art. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Street Fighter, Old Superhero Cartoons, old Family Guy, Old Ghibli movies, old Anime. They all were so much, more unique Because of Cel shading.

[@spingleboygle]

now i can finally hold the knowledge of creating my very own season one-looking spongebob animations

[@martinakernosh1565]

Everything about this video makes me feel like I’m in 2004, I love it

[@ferretace]

You can use a polarizing filter to get rid of the glare and reflection! Also great video!

[@andrewdude1]

Sweet I’ll give it a shot thanks

[@arturogonzalez-barrios8206]

Thank you for your hard work and dedication to your art. I've been sharing these tutorials with my high school animation students, it got them so pumped and excited to see animation as physical art.

[@andrewdude1]

Whoa that’s cool!

[@billsomes9569]

So sick rock on Arturo! Doing the lords work

[@danielslade9485]

You constantly keep evolving your techniques to keep cel animation alive.

[@VennyRestore]

Cel animation has a very specific roughness that can’t be replicated with digital animation. The imperfections like cel shadows and rough imperfect xerox lines.

[@BlackbeltHitoshi]

Can't you just put cel shadows and rough imperfect Xerox lines in each frame while drawing digitally?

[@iknoweverything4959]

@@BlackbeltHitoshi You can, with a charcoal ink brush and you can even place physical paint textures on top of it with low opacity to give it a cel look. Even though it's cutout animation, South Park probably did it the best in their early seasons, giving that physical art look digitally.

[@Cheesemoonh]

When i get good at drawing, my goal is to create a 2D animation movie with this style

[@Amalgam8ion]

Adore the use of the KMart music, shit is so godlike

[@willbill808]

I KNEW it! I heard this music in I think a Kmart jingle from 1989. Immediately after finding it on KZbin I sampled it and made a beat out of it.

[@schwarzenegger_begger8810]

4:41 Looks *just like* and old-school animation! Flakes on the screen and all.

[@bxbrenden]

Nice work! It’s cool to see your experimentation with a medium that’s not used as much anymore. Great tip about the cheaper acrylic paint puddling better. I’ve been making some cels myself, and expensive acrylic doesn’t puddle nearly that nicely.

[@MicahBuzanANIMATION]

You don't see this kind of cell animation too often these days. Thanks for making this! I might have to give this a try

[@BonesMcoy]

Hey Dude1, I just watched The Secret of NIMH again and it inspired me to create some cell animations of my own. This is the first video I'm watching on how to do it and a lot of the technique shown here can easily be translated to using software to make cell-style animations using only simple software. That is, if someone wanted to get into making animations but only have access to a PC.

[@kapi2345]

Cel animation is the absolute HELL But it's worth it :)

[@creativersestudios7876]

Your videos getting better and better every time you upload. Keep up the good work man.

[@wockemsockem5336]

I LOVE THIS BRO KEEP IT UP

[@theunkillablecat8458]

Cel Animation is really Cool!!

[@mychannel3154]

This great short cartoon looks similar to something you see on 90s Cartoon Network

[@nonameman7114]

I thought it was courage at first glance

[@SirIkeMedia]

Cool informative video, man. I make cartoons in Flash/Animate but I wish I could make them look like this.

[@Blu3Jao]

Man you're really becoming an expert on this stuff! Good stuff.

[@wesleybermingham9986]

We need to keep this art alive.

[@e-mananimates2274]

With all that goes in actual cel animation, I'm glad the process of 2-D animation is more digital!

[@JunJP02]

Your tutorials are very informative and inviting to beginners. Kudos and props to you!

[@danielcotte4265]

Hi, just wanted to share that I think the painting technique is called floating because cel animators would actually float the paintbrush above the cel sheet and let the paint flow down. This is, like you say, to achieve a brushless finish. There are tricks to thin out the paint so it flows better too, it's cool that you figured out the cheaper stuff is good for this. Anyways, thanks for sharing. Very instructive and straight to the point video.

[@gibsonflyingv2820]

THANK YOU SO MUCH. Unless you go to art school its very very difficult to get into this secret lost art and find out how folks did it back in the day. So helpful for us who are trying to learn and eventually make a demo reel and work for a studio some day. Thank you so much.

[@dante224real1]

lets get this trending!!! this is SUPER important for college students

[@rolandkatsuragi]

Now I can see why multiple animators animated different objects in the same shot

[@CharcoalRabbit]

The cel animation you made reminds me of Ren and Stimpy.

[@snekk3689]

I love these tutorials, thx man

[@MrHangman56]

What also works ive found that isnt so expensive is the transparent slip covers you can get for inside clip binders. They already have holes

[@tigerofftopic2048]

This looks so cool! I definitely want to try out cel animation. I love animation but so far I've only done digital animation. Thanks for making this video, it gave me a few ideas for when I give it a try.

[@DrRobotnikPingas]

This looks great. This makes me reminds me of „Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog“

[@cade32X]

The song is “Jamboree” by Mladen Franko, for those wondering.

[@henryeyes22]

damn this is really neat!

[@dreamywolfdd]

this is gonna come very handy, thank you for this tutorial i love your work too

[@Snowonacone]

Absolutely love these tutorials! Do you think you’ll ever try stop motion?

[@GamerFreddyandgangWTH]

Whenever I think about cel animation, I always watch this video

[@weamers]

oh my god you're the dat weasel and rahul guy, this is super cool i love your art

[@arturogonzalez-barrios8206]

Yeah, thanks for this man!

[@NobleGasHelium]

You're a genius

[@johnsterling9455]

I love this. I was gonna try my hand at cell animation. I love the technique and look it gives. And your video was helpful as hell! Thank you!

[@littykittymode]

This is so awesome. Thanks for sharing your process, I keep finding myself back on your channel lol. Pls never stop

[@TESTMACARONI]

damn, this is pretty awesome

[@MoiTion]

Se me hace muy interesante como antes utilizaban celdas para poder hacer animaciones, además del proceso tardado, peor el resultado valia la pena, buen video :)

[@ameliab7626]

Exactly the tutorial I needed!! I love the final result it’s so silly. Question do you need a paint pen to draw on animation cels or can I use like, a fine tip sharpie for thinner lines?

[@andrewdude1]

I think the sharpie will be permanent but believe it ended up slightly transparent when I tried it’s been a while tho

[@bagnome]

If you want to take it another step further, and a step back in time, get yourself a super 8 or 16mm movie camera that lets you take one picture at a time and capture it on film. Maybe even on reversal film so you can project the finished animation back the old fashioned way. That was my first thought, anyway. I have a 16mm camera with that capability and totally want to try this.

[@juantoledo5248]

That’s so freaking cool

[@adamekhoff43]

Yo! Remember me? I still love your cel animations to this day!

[@memetrash5082]

Keep up the great work dude!

[@ericpratt984]

Dang, with how hard that is, I'm surprised someone decided to go through with it.

[@vintagepiss]

Amazing

[@ronniewest838]

That’s really dope‼️

[@nikskyanimation4924]

thanks,imma try and do it on my own,i am subscribed,amazing video.

[@AnaGomez-sg7ho]

This is such a good tutorial thanks

[@zaquar]

Thank you so much for this video!

[@mbw6957]

This is too cool! Nice job, truly

[@jondensk]

Man this reminds me of me back in the day when i first started animating. I animated a test of goofy on 16 field paper. Im going to blow your mind...ready? .... "Tvpaint" haha try that instead of the pain in the butt process of real cels!

[@BasementStudi0s]

i gotta do this sometime

[@TheTrashStash]

great job and tutorial!

[@rileythecartoonist5818]

Great video dude! I’m pretty new to animation but I’m training myself to do it. I really dig the old school style and I do pretty much digital only animation wich is cool but I prefer the old way. Once my animation studio is open this is what we’re gonna do. I’m just curious on a lot of it. Like how to get the hole punched paper and all that stuff. It would mean a lot if you could make a video or somthing on more detail about how to do this stuff

[@Korgi_Polymer]

Keep on keepin on man, as always I'm available for voice work. Especially after August!

[@TheLunatrick]

Thank you for this!

[@lawich9943]

Great job! It's just amazing :)

[@roberttaylr]

Beautiful

[@thescythe9918]

if andrew dude upload, i clicc. fast.

[@nice-qm5jc]

Very cool. I hope you live forever

[@RyanRodriguez-i3d]

Bevekashah, tell us what camera you used. I'd like to have a name to start with for looking up one for myself. And for that matter, the tripod you used for that top-down setup. I've never once seen before a camera set up like that. The approaches you've shown here circumvent weaknesses of a scanner for me.

[@korisnthere]

Rad video

[@idontlike5143]

Great job, just one question, how did you make the lighting really good

[@icutmyownhairs]

DID YOU RECORD HOLD MUSIC AND USE IF FOR THE VIDEO??? i fucking love that

[@the4ng31guy]

Thank a lot dude

[@sergiot4269]

The drawings, expressions looks better than with software. Nowdays they only draw a circle with foots or the nonsense 3D

[@ChristinaBatte]

amazing !!!!!!

[@SussyPoster69]

Cool

[@joshpritt2146]

I know why Saul Bass did that Warner Bros logo in the 70s.

[@CinemaGatesPictures]

Nice Job!

[@finngomezgamer]

Awesome 👏

[@ScoopOfButter]

who knew michael cera did cel animation...

[@mikeandnana9935]

Can’t find a light desk like what you use and was hoping you knew where to get one

[@andrewdude1]

There's a lot on amazon just LED light table or trace table

[@FujikkoJP]

*Isn't there an app for cell animations?*

[@ManfredoMorales]

This was rad

[@iknoweverything4959]

For the cels, have you tried washing them so you can reuse them? They did that back in the 40's when the material was rare.

[@CMan-x7k]

How do you wash them?

[@iknoweverything4959]

@@CMan-x7k I saw them do it in a sink.

[@vtorkev]

You got a new Suscriber

[@Leon-qh9br]

nice what program are you using I am doing a multilane camera setup with my Panasonic Lumix camera but want to find the right camera to communicate with, dragon frame just seems exspenive

[@StudioHWOtheAnimator]

Holy crap this video is from 2021!

[@tonyl423]

Are you working on any pitches?

[@themattmcclellan]

Mgks brother

[@ronanvave560]

SpongeBob actually had this style.of medium in season 1.

[@profilepicture1847]

This looks like an Adult Swim bumper.

[@user-so5bi8ko9m]

Cool!

[@itsmjeezy2596]

I really wish they still took the time and effort to make cartoons like this, back in the golden age of cartoons (Popeye, Betty Boop, etc.) A lot more work but so much more artistic and aesthetically pleasing. Most cartoon(especially kids cartoons) and animation today is so bland and boring

[@collinwade]

Dude I love your voice you should try out voice acting

[@NephewFlops]

From a dude named Andrew ur the only Andrewdude1 and you are #1

[@Yay4ewAnimates]

wait what song is this? I love it!

[@ibrfusion]

But it isn't the full process. Make us understand the whole. Did we have to make every movement copy or not?

[@Daisy_MayLemon-IceCubePenny]

You make 1 frame of something, and can use it later.

[@Dawanoman]

cool video

[@samuraivader3814]

Sexcellent work there. I came here because I'm trying to find a way to preserve my cel collection digitally, any recommendations?

[@yoelhgo02]

Look like one of Nickelodeon animation from 90s

[@yoelhgo02]

this output look like one of doodle toons

[@byartion3831]

can you make another tutorial how to make cel animation hd screen