What incredible dedication! Cel animation is a beautiful lost art... I'm glad some people are keeping it alive in their own way. Thank you for posting!
Why on God’s Green Earth this hadn’t reached 1,000,000+ hits is baffling! Your dedication to this long-gone craft is incredible, and helps give me an insight to what animating was like way back when. I also love how you implemented the makeup blush for Snow White herself-especially considering a majority of the animators for Walt Disney were female, snd improvised!
I rarely comment on videos, but I felt I had to on this one. This is possibly one of the most incredible videos I have watched on youtube. The sheer dedication to your work is absolutely astounding and you are an incredible person.
Ever since I was little, I was always amazed at how hand-drawn traditional animation could bring simple drawings to life like magic. For a time when I started high school, I seriously considered a career in animation and dreamed of reviving traditional techniques: hand-inked and hand-painted cels, multiplane cameras, successive exposure, the whole nine yards. I ultimately decided against that, and it pains me to say I don't regret that decision. Most major film studios (at least in North America) don't want that kind of animation anymore. All they care about is making a quick buck, even if it means shoddy art. And I would've ended up living the "starving artist" stereotype as a result. If you're planning on a career in animation, maybe you can fulfill my old dream for me. I would pay to watch it, even if it was lousy, because we so desperately need for these kinds of cartoons to come back. It's especially interesting that you did one for the Genie, since Aladdin wasn't made with cels but was digitally inked and painted. Also, why does the water turn red at moments?
HotWax93 It really breaks my heart hearing your story and how you gave up on it. Well, maybe you should keep an eye on me. Hopefully, one day I might just fullfil that old beautiful dream, I'm willing to dedicate my time and money. I'm actually not looking to revive cameras, cels, or even paper animation (at least not fully). What I'm really after is bringing back the old principles, the expressiveness, the imagination and the magic of old cartoons. Like you said, these days studios want quick money and no effort, and it's sad to see that. BUT, I can see some aspects that give hope I can butt myself in the industry and slowly promote my vision. I'm just finishing high school, I already made one full cartoon which received pretty good feedback at festivals so far (though it is primitive and kind of limited, you can watch it on my channel) and I'm about to release another which will be about 200% better. After college, all I need will be a team of artists who can see my vision and are willing to go through it with me, and the fight will already be 50% easier. It will be challenging, true, but I'll go through it all if eventually it's going to be all worth it.
+AD RC That's why I said traditional animation is dead in North America. I never said it was dead altogether. +Vla M. Acantincai Thank you so very much for your kind words. Best of luck to you as you venture out into the wild and wonderful world of animation!
Check out Short of the Week website, sometimes they have good animations. Or some kind of film fest, like the Japan Anime Expo. There’s still a few places to see
Excellent work! I love cels, both for animation and as a standalone art medium. For anyone interested in cel painting, here are the materials I use: For plastic, .005" Grafix Dura-lar is my favorite. You can also get blank cels with alignment holes pre-punched from some places like cartoonsupplies.com. The cheapest option is printer transparency film from office stores. For inking, it's taken me years to find the perfect setup, but here it is: Nikko G-pen nib, cheap Speedball nib holder (I prefer the oblique one for cels and straight one for drawing on paper), and a mix of Daler-Rowney Pro and Dr. Ph. Martin Black Star Hicarb ink (order them from Blick, eveywhere else is overpriced). The Daler-Rowney is super thick, and Ph. Martin is too thin and beads up on plastic. But both are fully opaque in a single pass, and adhere to plastic as well as acrylic paint does, and won't fade over time like ink from marker pens. So by mixing them together, you can adjust the viscosity to be just right. Fade-resistant colored outlines can be done using watered down acrylic paint on the dip pen, but it takes a few passes to get it reasonably opaque. For paint, I don't have an exact recommendation at the moment, but do get something matte rather than gloss. Gloss tends to get stuck to whatever is underneath the cel unless you peel it apart every year or two. I used to use cheap Apple Barrel paints from craft stores, but they've changed their formula to be thicker and less opaque, and I haven't found an ideal replacement yet.
this shows how hard working traditional artists are, I'm impressed, I know for myself that that I can't have that patience making a single scene animation
I... I don't know how to start...I loved and appreciated your work and at the same time I couldn't stop thinking about the virtuosity of the people who painted those perfect lines on the cells so the animation could be that smooth and almost perfect. This forgetable scene for most of the human beings represents the incredible complexity of this art. Thank you so much for doing this beautiful revival.
This seems so technically difficult but also incredibly relaxing and rewarding. Imagine being able to go back in time and work on this film originally ❤️
It's not difficult if you enjoy it. And if you don't enjoy it you shouldn't do it then. Looking at it is easy or difficult is completely the wrong mind set.
The work required for a few seconds of animation is mind blowing. Additionally they had to sketch it all out and figure out what layer each element will go on depending on if it's 1s or 2s or whatever else... Granted though, it was teams of people who would do this, and each person would do a different part.
Thanks a lot for making it, posting and also explaining it to us! That´s an invaluable lesson for me and many other aspiring animators who want to undertand the whole Disney process and how amazing it is, up until today! And more than anything, congratulations for the great work!
The fact that you could do this...words cannot express how impressed I am. I do cels just as one shot art pieces, and it takes me nearly a whole day to do one.
This should have a million likes. Wow, the amount of work you did is collosal(sp?) and it was super educational to me ( as I often wonder how the layering works in cel animation.) Thank you, thank you.
This is an awesome video, man! Please make more! If you did a whole series about you replicating classic cel scenes like you did here (or even showcasing some of your own work as well) and had a slight upgrade with your production value to a little bit of a higher level (not trying to say your production here is that bad, just that you could gain a whole lot more viewers if you just had a little higher camera and audio quality to compete with the bigger youtube channels' production value), you could get a massive following on here. Cel animation is an artform that is quickly dying in the modern era, and I'm sure that once a younger guy like me (I'm 23) actually sees this process and how cool it is, a whole new generation could embrace classic cel animation and keep it alive. Plus, I am fascinated by the cel process, but there are not very many vids on YT that cover the process at all. Like, I have scoured this website and I have only found like five or six of them total on this site, so any and all cel animation-based content would be awesome! And as I said earlier, if you upgraded your production to a higher level (the ultimate goal of this would be like Jazza Art has in his vids, but any upgrade in gear is going to have more attention) you would draw a lot more people in. Just some of my thoughts lol Keep doing what you're doing, man. You're on the verge of getting big.
Ex-cel-ent job, Brandon! I’ll plan to recreate inked and painted cel animation using 12-field pre-punched animation cels, vinyl acrylic cel paint (including Toon Tones and my own vinyl acrylic cel paint color concoctions I dub “Cel-Mix”), my Plustek A3 scanner and the “stop-motion” tool in “DigiCel FlipBook” someday
Absolutely fascinating to see how the original animators built in little loop cycles to their sequences and also to see the mistakes that were left in. Those little imperfections in the original film just add to the charm.
This is a fantastic video. Thank you for sharing it. It is illuminating walking through the analysis, methodology, and process of approaching the scene
I've tried my hand at trying to replicate hand drawn animation using Photoshop. Sampling colors and trying to draw them on a digital tablet, etc.. I was going for early, early Looney Toons style animation. Biggest problem is the cheap tablet I'm using. I think I could do a convincing enough job if I had a really nice tablet to draw on. But even doing it all digital is a monumental task for one person. I started a project and only got about 30 seconds in, in like a couple months working several hours a day. I eventually gave up, at least until I can afford a decent tablet. I can only imagine how much time and effort it would take for one person to do it all by hand.
AMAZING!!!!!! Thank you for sharing this with us. I am considering giving cell animation a try, and this really helps me understand the process. Thanks! :-)
Came across your video while researching a school project with my 11 year old son. He is fascinated by animation. Thank you for creating this amazing project.
Thoroughly impressed with this video and your patiecne for making this. It must have taken great dedication to make the original scene but probably as much to reverse engineer the process to understand it! Fantastic video. Cel animation always had lovely, vivid and vivid color however, I could never do it myself. I have patience to do the rough drawings on paper but coloring using cels and scanning them? No, sorry, I'll stick to digital coloring.
dude i really didnt think you were gonna get anything from copying this out at first, but to learn all the time saving methods they used while keeping the frames alive is just genius.
Wow! Very impressive. I don't know if I'm more astounded at the work that went into the original film, or at your dedication in reproducing this one scene for our benefit!
Holy shit, it looks as good if not better than the original sequence. Good job man. It sucks no one will do traditional anymore like this. But as you indicate and show in your video, it's a lot of work for something people just won't really care for or notice except animation nerds. It's just really expensive, which is a shame really. I considered doing animation but I think I'll go into storyboarding/animation writing instead as I'm simply not patient enough to do the actual ink and paint. Good to see someone so dedicated keeping the art form alive in some way.
Wonderful work!! I am currently working on a collab project where my scene is 3 seconds with one character. I am amazed at the amount of work you dedicated your time to!!
This only reinforces my understanding that in order to create amazingly complex animation such as this you must have absolutely everything organized to the smallest detail, especially if you want to reuse or overlap the timing of any frames. How they went about planning and timing a shot like this is beyond me.
My god...this is AMAZING! So LOVE TO WORK with a company that accepts this kind nowadays. It would be an honor to hone my art and drawing skills to the max!
So did Disney ever face an issue of loss of quality because of using many cells together in the same frame? Seems to me that stacking that many clear cels on top of each other would blur the background somewhat, even though the cels are clear. Doesn't the stacking of a lot of clear cels sort of distort the background just a little bit because of the compounding of that many clear pieces on top of each other? What was the limit of number of cels used in a single frame before loss of quality became an issue?
@Lamich Thanks for the reply and videos. I have watched all of the videos I can find on cel animation, but I haven't seen the ones you just sent so I will definitely check them out. I find old school animation so interesting and have gone down the rabbit hole learning about the process, so thanks for the info.
This really helps me understand the complexity of traditional animation. Great project.
I agree, for a very long time I had almost no idea how it worked.
What incredible dedication! Cel animation is a beautiful lost art... I'm glad some people are keeping it alive in their own way. Thank you for posting!
I'm one of them people that using cel animations )))
Lost art? Explain to me please..
Everyone is using CGI nowadays.... well, except a few people.
That's why it's lost art
or 2d animation, there's still alot of that
+Daylight Studio As in actual cels or the "digital" cels that are used in most traditional animation nowadays?
Thank you all for your supportive comments!
What program did you use to assemble this?
Sir you MUST start a patreon!, this is AMAZING!!
Top man .
😊
Why on God’s Green Earth this hadn’t reached 1,000,000+ hits is baffling! Your dedication to this long-gone craft is incredible, and helps give me an insight to what animating was like way back when. I also love how you implemented the makeup blush for Snow White herself-especially considering a majority of the animators for Walt Disney were female, snd improvised!
It warms my heart to know that people continue to use cel animation. Absolutely amazing work. :D
I rarely comment on videos, but I felt I had to on this one. This is possibly one of the most incredible videos I have watched on youtube. The sheer dedication to your work is absolutely astounding and you are an incredible person.
It's honestly hard to believe that this movie is going to turn 100 next decade.
Ever since I was little, I was always amazed at how hand-drawn traditional animation could bring simple drawings to life like magic. For a time when I started high school, I seriously considered a career in animation and dreamed of reviving traditional techniques: hand-inked and hand-painted cels, multiplane cameras, successive exposure, the whole nine yards. I ultimately decided against that, and it pains me to say I don't regret that decision. Most major film studios (at least in North America) don't want that kind of animation anymore. All they care about is making a quick buck, even if it means shoddy art. And I would've ended up living the "starving artist" stereotype as a result. If you're planning on a career in animation, maybe you can fulfill my old dream for me. I would pay to watch it, even if it was lousy, because we so desperately need for these kinds of cartoons to come back.
It's especially interesting that you did one for the Genie, since Aladdin wasn't made with cels but was digitally inked and painted. Also, why does the water turn red at moments?
HotWax93 welp, there's still anime.
Some traditions are not completely lost.
HotWax93 It really breaks my heart hearing your story and how you gave up on it. Well, maybe you should keep an eye on me. Hopefully, one day I might just fullfil that old beautiful dream, I'm willing to dedicate my time and money. I'm actually not looking to revive cameras, cels, or even paper animation (at least not fully). What I'm really after is bringing back the old principles, the expressiveness, the imagination and the magic of old cartoons. Like you said, these days studios want quick money and no effort, and it's sad to see that. BUT, I can see some aspects that give hope I can butt myself in the industry and slowly promote my vision.
I'm just finishing high school, I already made one full cartoon which received pretty good feedback at festivals so far (though it is primitive and kind of limited, you can watch it on my channel) and I'm about to release another which will be about 200% better. After college, all I need will be a team of artists who can see my vision and are willing to go through it with me, and the fight will already be 50% easier. It will be challenging, true, but I'll go through it all if eventually it's going to be all worth it.
+AD RC That's why I said traditional animation is dead in North America. I never said it was dead altogether.
+Vla M. Acantincai Thank you so very much for your kind words. Best of luck to you as you venture out into the wild and wonderful world of animation!
Check out Short of the Week website, sometimes they have good animations. Or some kind of film fest, like the Japan Anime Expo. There’s still a few places to see
@John200410 Many games these days use frame by frame animation, so that may be where the future of 2D animation lies
Wow, this is so amazing! What dedication and perfect description of the difficulty of this process!
It isn't difficult. It is fun.
Hey there!
Excellent work! I love cels, both for animation and as a standalone art medium.
For anyone interested in cel painting, here are the materials I use:
For plastic, .005" Grafix Dura-lar is my favorite. You can also get blank cels with alignment holes pre-punched from some places like cartoonsupplies.com. The cheapest option is printer transparency film from office stores.
For inking, it's taken me years to find the perfect setup, but here it is: Nikko G-pen nib, cheap Speedball nib holder (I prefer the oblique one for cels and straight one for drawing on paper), and a mix of Daler-Rowney Pro and Dr. Ph. Martin Black Star Hicarb ink (order them from Blick, eveywhere else is overpriced).
The Daler-Rowney is super thick, and Ph. Martin is too thin and beads up on plastic. But both are fully opaque in a single pass, and adhere to plastic as well as acrylic paint does, and won't fade over time like ink from marker pens. So by mixing them together, you can adjust the viscosity to be just right.
Fade-resistant colored outlines can be done using watered down acrylic paint on the dip pen, but it takes a few passes to get it reasonably opaque.
For paint, I don't have an exact recommendation at the moment, but do get something matte rather than gloss. Gloss tends to get stuck to whatever is underneath the cel unless you peel it apart every year or two. I used to use cheap Apple Barrel paints from craft stores, but they've changed their formula to be thicker and less opaque, and I haven't found an ideal replacement yet.
this shows how hard working traditional artists are, I'm impressed, I know for myself that that I can't have that patience making a single scene animation
It isn't hard, It's fun to those who do it.
I... I don't know how to start...I loved and appreciated your work and at the same time I couldn't stop thinking about the virtuosity of the people who painted those perfect lines on the cells so the animation could be that smooth and almost perfect. This forgetable scene for most of the human beings represents the incredible complexity of this art. Thank you so much for doing this beautiful revival.
This seems so technically difficult but also incredibly relaxing and rewarding. Imagine being able to go back in time and work on this film originally ❤️
It's not difficult if you enjoy it. And if you don't enjoy it you shouldn't do it then. Looking at it is easy or difficult is completely the wrong mind set.
I enjoyed this. So satisfying!!!
Animating this many elements in one single scene is hard work, and you did a fantastic job
It isn't work if you enjoy it. If It's work to you you obviously aren't enjoying it so there is no point in doing it.
wow this is amazing and so informative! 4-12 hours a day for four months omg! thank you for sharing your work!:)))
Very impressive. I showed this to students in a class. I love all the little patterns within the bigger project of frames that can be looped.
The work required for a few seconds of animation is mind blowing. Additionally they had to sketch it all out and figure out what layer each element will go on depending on if it's 1s or 2s or whatever else... Granted though, it was teams of people who would do this, and each person would do a different part.
This is great. Always wanted to know how this process works. Thanks for going through the time filming this
I was searching for Disney's Snow White Art and this showed up. This is a perfect video, I loved your work 🤍
This is the most impressive thing I have ever seen. Great job man.
Thanks a lot for making it, posting and also explaining it to us! That´s an invaluable lesson for me and many other aspiring animators who want to undertand the whole Disney process and how amazing it is, up until today!
And more than anything, congratulations for the great work!
The fact that you could do this...words cannot express how impressed I am. I do cels just as one shot art pieces, and it takes me nearly a whole day to do one.
Damn, such dedication dude. Walt would have been proud of you.
This is amazing! Your patience to learn and develop this craft is so impressive
this is fascinating. i'm glad cel animation was never completely forgotten.
What an incredible piece of work. This is a great tribute to one of the best movies of all time!
This should have a million likes. Wow, the amount of work you did is collosal(sp?) and it was super educational to me ( as I often wonder how the layering works in cel animation.) Thank you, thank you.
This was a profound project ,excellent results. The merging of traditional technique with current technology is amazing. Amazing !!! Great job !!
Thank you so much for creating such a wonderful video that well explained how to make a cel animation! It needs great effort and passion!
glad to know there are others who still do this
the sheer level of your dedication! i am absolutely awestruck!
What an amazing labour of love -- a fantastic effort!
This is absolutely amazing. One of the best videos i've ever seen online!
This is an awesome video, man! Please make more! If you did a whole series about you replicating classic cel scenes like you did here (or even showcasing some of your own work as well) and had a slight upgrade with your production value to a little bit of a higher level (not trying to say your production here is that bad, just that you could gain a whole lot more viewers if you just had a little higher camera and audio quality to compete with the bigger youtube channels' production value), you could get a massive following on here.
Cel animation is an artform that is quickly dying in the modern era, and I'm sure that once a younger guy like me (I'm 23) actually sees this process and how cool it is, a whole new generation could embrace classic cel animation and keep it alive. Plus, I am fascinated by the cel process, but there are not very many vids on YT that cover the process at all. Like, I have scoured this website and I have only found like five or six of them total on this site, so any and all cel animation-based content would be awesome! And as I said earlier, if you upgraded your production to a higher level (the ultimate goal of this would be like Jazza Art has in his vids, but any upgrade in gear is going to have more attention) you would draw a lot more people in. Just some of my thoughts lol
Keep doing what you're doing, man. You're on the verge of getting big.
So good, I'll be looking at your other videos now!
Complicated as the freaking f..
Yet unbelievably charming dedication and a magnificent piece of work
Ex-cel-ent job, Brandon! I’ll plan to recreate inked and painted cel animation using 12-field pre-punched animation cels, vinyl acrylic cel paint (including Toon Tones and my own vinyl acrylic cel paint color concoctions I dub “Cel-Mix”), my Plustek A3 scanner and the “stop-motion” tool in “DigiCel FlipBook” someday
WOW! I can't believe the dedication you put into this project! This really puts early animation into perspective!
That’s absolutely a masterpiece. Great great job.
Thank you for this project !! its amazing and helped me understand the celluloid animation.
Thank you for making this! It really helps me understand cels more. Great work!
You are a super talented man
Absolutely fascinating to see how the original animators built in little loop cycles to their sequences and also to see the mistakes that were left in. Those little imperfections in the original film just add to the charm.
So that’s how it’s done traditionally. Well done!
I am late to this party ... but this is beautiful work...big fan on traditional methods in animation.
This is a fantastic video. Thank you for sharing it. It is illuminating walking through the analysis, methodology, and process of approaching the scene
This is incredible, I'm considering making my own hand drawn animations. This really helped! Also this looked like it was really satisfying to do!
He is a man of focus, commitment and sheer fucking will
I feel like this short part of film would take me a year to create... Great skills, dedication and PATIENCE! The patience is the worst in animating xD
Awesome Video
This is really cool! I really appreciate being able to see the process - looks like a lot of work!
That's incredible!
Soooo amazing you worked on this and the complexity of it just baffles me! Great job
Amazing work!
I've tried my hand at trying to replicate hand drawn animation using Photoshop. Sampling colors and trying to draw them on a digital tablet, etc.. I was going for early, early Looney Toons style animation. Biggest problem is the cheap tablet I'm using. I think I could do a convincing enough job if I had a really nice tablet to draw on.
But even doing it all digital is a monumental task for one person. I started a project and only got about 30 seconds in, in like a couple months working several hours a day. I eventually gave up, at least until I can afford a decent tablet.
I can only imagine how much time and effort it would take for one person to do it all by hand.
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Really good analysis; amazing work--makes me appreciate the "ladies in ink and paint" much more
this is so awesome and super educational! i finally understand how traditional animation works, it was confounding me for the longest time.
This is AMAZING! Man what an incredible work!!!!!!! 0w0
AMAZING!!!!!! Thank you for sharing this with us. I am considering giving cell animation a try, and this really helps me understand the process. Thanks! :-)
Came across your video while researching a school project with my 11 year old son. He is fascinated by animation. Thank you for creating this amazing project.
This is fantastic! You inspire me to practice similarly!
Mad respect, dude. Wow.
Really great. Thank you for sharing!
Very beautiful work. I would love to work in classic animation. It's a fantastic work!
Thoroughly impressed with this video and your patiecne for making this. It must have taken great dedication to make the original scene but probably as much to reverse engineer the process to understand it!
Fantastic video. Cel animation always had lovely, vivid and vivid color however, I could never do it myself. I have patience to do the rough drawings on paper but coloring using cels and scanning them? No, sorry, I'll stick to digital coloring.
dude i really didnt think you were gonna get anything from copying this out at first, but to learn all the time saving methods they used while keeping the frames alive is just genius.
So much effort! It really contributes to the understanding of the art of animation. Nice work!
Wow! Very impressive. I don't know if I'm more astounded at the work that went into the original film, or at your dedication in reproducing this one scene for our benefit!
OMG. Really you are Amazing, thanks a lot for your impressive job.
This video is pure gold
Today I learnd quite a lot. Thank you.
THIS. IS. SO. WILD!! I am so spoiled with digital animation software! Well done!
Mad Respect!!
Keep it up, dude, this is amazing. Hoping you branch off (or already have) and create your own storylines and characters. Would definitely watch.
very thorough work, amazing
That was an impressive recreation
Holy shit, it looks as good if not better than the original sequence. Good job man. It sucks no one will do traditional anymore like this. But as you indicate and show in your video, it's a lot of work for something people just won't really care for or notice except animation nerds. It's just really expensive, which is a shame really. I considered doing animation but I think I'll go into storyboarding/animation writing instead as I'm simply not patient enough to do the actual ink and paint. Good to see someone so dedicated keeping the art form alive in some way.
I like it. I hope your creations was included on the Blu Ray version of Snow White
Great re-creation!
I love it - yours is so much better!
Thanks for showing Cel animation to me!
Awesome work dude. Really impressive.
That is so awesome, its definitely challenging indeed
Fun fact: After the movie, more than half of the artists were hospitalized from severe burnout
Nice work!
Beautiful! Walt would be impressed
_oh god, that seems ridonkulously difficult to reproduce on your own._
*RESPECT*
I want to see traditional cel animation come back one last time.
Wonderful work!! I am currently working on a collab project where my scene is 3 seconds with one character. I am amazed at the amount of work you dedicated your time to!!
I love this so much... I saw this video a few years ago and now im back again cause i want to make something similar... 🎉
A lot of effort!! How incredible😍
This only reinforces my understanding that in order to create amazingly complex animation such as this you must have absolutely everything organized to the smallest detail, especially if you want to reuse or overlap the timing of any frames. How they went about planning and timing a shot like this is beyond me.
Timing sheets, DUH!!!!
This might help with understanding how it may have done - th-cam.com/video/XbBwuPX3UyM/w-d-xo.html
Sent here by the CLS Knockback podcast. Incredible work!
You are inspiring, man!
My god...this is AMAZING! So LOVE TO WORK with a company that accepts this kind nowadays. It would be an honor to hone my art and drawing skills to the max!
Unfortunately, I doubt there are many companies like that.
There are lots, dumbass.
So did Disney ever face an issue of loss of quality because of using many cells together in the same frame? Seems to me that stacking that many clear cels on top of each other would blur the background somewhat, even though the cels are clear. Doesn't the stacking of a lot of clear cels sort of distort the background just a little bit because of the compounding of that many clear pieces on top of each other? What was the limit of number of cels used in a single frame before loss of quality became an issue?
@Lamich Thanks for the reply and videos. I have watched all of the videos I can find on cel animation, but I haven't seen the ones you just sent so I will definitely check them out. I find old school animation so interesting and have gone down the rabbit hole learning about the process, so thanks for the info.
Cool, the first full feature animation.
You did an incredible job!!
wow crazy dedication!
my god thats a lot of work! congrats it looks terific