Cel based animation

Introduction

Cell-based animation is seen as one of the more traditional forms of animation. Often seen in many popular stop motion feature throughout time such as 'The Simpsons'. A 'cel' is a piece of transparent material used to draw parts of the animation on. They can be layered by various different pieces of scenery or background using another cel. These are then photographed and the next frame is drawn on the next cel. As you can imagine, this is a very time consuming task and was the norm for animation until computers started to take over and make things much easier.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Snow white and the Seven Dwarfs (as seen above) was the first ever motion picture to be created using cel based animation  Many critics referred to this film as 'Disney's Folly' due to the disbelief that it was possible to create a full film using this method of animation. Walt Disney himself had to morgate his house in order to fund production which eventually came up to around about $1,488,422.74.

The Looney Tunes Show

First created in 1933 is a Warner brothers production created using the same method as Disney's early films. It contained an array of different characters each with there own personalities and was mainly aimed a children  Sin it's creation there has been a range of movies and spin-off's using many of the characters in the show.

Conclusions

There's no need for me to provide any-more examples of animation created using this technique. Practically every animated feature up until the early 90's was created using this technique. It was widely used due to the detail which could be administered as opposed to other techniques such as cut-out. However, like most things it eventually became obsolete when animators began using digital means as a way of animating. This is due to the larger amount of possibilities and quickness of computer-based animation.