Back أوراق السيلولويد Arabic Cel (animació) Catalan Cel German Cel Spanish سل (پویانمایی) Persian Celluloïd (dessin animé) French Cel Galician Cel (folija) Croatian Cel ID Rodovetro Italian
A cel, short for celluloid, is a transparent sheet on which objects are drawn or painted for traditional, hand-drawn animation. Actual celluloid (consisting of cellulose nitrate and camphor) was used during the first half of the 20th century, but since it was flammable and dimensionally unstable it was largely replaced by cellulose acetate. With the advent of computer-assisted animation production, the use of cels has been all but abandoned in major productions. Disney studios stopped using cels in 1990 when Computer Animation Production System (CAPS) replaced this element in their animation process,[1] and in the next decade and a half, the other major animation studios phased cels out as well.
- ^ Coulson, William R. (January 1995). "The Art of Disney and Sotheby's". Animation Magazine. 8 (2): 72. ISSN 1041-617X. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
Disney's next animation smash was The Little Mermaid - the last Disney feature to utilize hand-painted acetate cels...Beauty and the Beast, Disney's next hit animation feature, was the first to use, instead of hand-painted cels, Disney's "CAPS" computer-generated characters.