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Original art.. what is the difference?

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8 to 24 cels are used to make one second of animation. One original background painting is used for each change of scene.

 

Original Production Drawing = a drawing used to create a cel

 

Original Production Cel = one used to make the cartoon, usually sold on a lithographed background. Sometimes the lines are lithographed, sometimes they're hand-painted. The cel is then flipped over and the colors painted on the reverse side.

 

Original Production Background = usually airbrushed and when sold with an ideal OPC (read - great pose/composition of characters) it's usually called a "Master Set-Up"

 

Limited Edition Cel = hand-painted in a small edition size, usually 500 or less...produced from an original drawing by someone (Chuck Jones, Bruce Timm, etc)

 

SeriCel (Seriagraphed Cel) = a larger limited edition size, usually 1000-5000 and not hand-crafted

 

I worked as a Gallery Manager at the Albany, NY Warner Brothers Studio Store for over 5 years back in the early 1990s.

 

Peace,

 

Chip

 

Thanks Chip. Great Breakdown and explanation.

 

The real $$ is the backgrounds. Where you may have thousands and thousands of cells, a movie or cartoon may only have a hundred or so.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but some cartoons also re-used backgrounds from episode to episode as well. For example they didn't do a new background of Fred Flintstone's house for every episode that aired.

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