a bit of a dilemma

Hiya Krafty,
I have a few whole movies and a bunch of whole TV shows and I have found that about 75% or so of them have this backing sheet on them and these cels are still in the production company boxes, So I would say most of the cels with backing sheets had it put there by the production company.

From the time most cels are painted to the time the scenes are shot is very short sometimes, It makes since that they would use a backing sheet to keep them from sticking to the drawings, As sometimes the paint is not all the way dry when the cels are shot on camera and if they have to make one more cel if it gets damaged before it gets shot this protects the drawings.
I've been told that sometimes blow dryers are used to dry the paint faster so they can shoot the scenes on time.
If you guys heard all the crazy stuff done to some of these cels you would be a little worried about paying hundreds of dollars for them.HEEHEE
I've heard storys that would make your hair turn gray if you heard them all.
I've found just about anything you can think of in the paint on the back, from hair,eyelashes,coins,stamps staples, paper clips,parts of other cels, I even found half a paint brush one time stuck to the back of a cel. I think the strangest thing was a condom package stuck to the back not just stuck but in the paint so you know the painter had to have got it in the paint while it was still wet.
God only knows what else is in them?
This is another good reason to were cotton gloves when you handle your cels.

Roy

LOL- that is hilarious, Roy! I dread to think what that artist was mixing his paints with if he left a rubber johnny laying around, heh. Brings a sinister new meaning to the phrase "dipping your pen in the company ink".

I certainly don't have as many cels as you and my experience is therefore limited, but the oddest thing I've found stuck to the back of my cels are strips of another cel. In fact, I think these strips were merely added to increase the depth of the cel so that it could be photograhphed on an oversized background.
I know how they usually recycle paper and plastic in studios- I have some model sheets and colour chart sheets which had been photocopied onto old storyboard sheets.
It was interesting to see an American advert on the back of one JoJo's Bizarre adventure colour test page!

Whats even stranger is the fact most cel painters are women! O_O heehee

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OMG I'm going out to buy gloves now. I've never even thought of half of that crap being stuck in the paint.

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