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Cell painting to DIP

Cell painting to DIP

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Cell painting to DIP

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- [Instructor] In the previous movie, I showed you the stages involved in drawing a traditional scene. In this movie we'll see what happens next when we take those drawings and color them. In the first few decades of the industry, the transfer process from clean up to cel was done by hand. An inker would take a cel, a transparent sheet, place it over the drawing, and then trace it by hand. So this process was called inking and it was slow, laborious, difficult, and expensive. It also was slightly wiggly. It wasn't as precise because you're tracing the original drawing and there's always that slight loss of the original animation's solidity. So it becomes a little bit wobbly. It's not quite the same as the original animation, very close, but some small quality is lost and some other quality is added to it. So when the inking was completed, the sheet was turned over and then the figure is painted on the reverse side. So now we can flip the image back over, the paint is applied to the…

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