I have no clue what "Settei" is.

This is going to sound ridiculous, but I went through galleries today looking at "Settei" cels.

I have a few questions, that I've been searching for and just cannot find the answer to:

1. What is a Settei cel?
2. Are they as rare as cels, or are they easily reproducted?
3. What is the difference in Settei drawings and Settei cels?
4. Am I even spelling "Settei" right?

Thanks. :) I know some of you are laughing.

Also, what is the difference between a genga and a douga?

I'll try my best to answer for you :)

Yep - you're spelling it right - Settei cels and sheets are 'models' for the way that characters and objects look (clothing, height, size etc.) Settei cels are made from the sheets, and show colour schemes for the characters. There are often more than one of each, or copies made so that a number of animators can refer to them when they are drawing characters.

I'm afraid I'm not sure about rarity - you can find settei sheets for some anime series relatively easily, especially since many copies are often made. I'm not sure about the cels. I guess it also changes depending on the series your looking for settei from.

-----

Genga are drawings which show key frames of movement. Douga are the pencil sketches which the cels are drawn from. Sometimes douga are shaded with coloured pencils to show colour and shade for the cel. Douga are very cleanly drawn with well defined lines, where as genga are often more rough and less defined.

I hope this helps :)


Anyone - Please correct me if I'm wrong ^^;...

Another easy way to tell the difference between a genga sheet and a douga sheet is the positioning of the production codes.

For douga, the production codes will almost always be in the top right-hand corner. The only time this changes is if the cel and douga's registration holes are on the side or bottom, which is usually done to help with some sort of sliding effect. Regardless, the production codes on a douga will always be in the corner.

With genga, the codes tend to be in the middle of the page.

_______________

As far as settei goes, it really depends on who you talk to. Personally, I've never seen cels labeled as "settei" before. Usually, when I think of settei, I think of the paper products.

There are settei drawn for each episode of an anime, showing different angles of each character, both full-body and head only. They are to help the animators in drawing the genga/douga/etc. Thus, many copies of the originals are made to be passed around the various parts of the studio. You almost never see original settei--most are copies. So, you really have to trust your source, because studio copies are worth more than copies some dealer/collector makes at Kinko's. If I remember correctly, there were some [i]original[/i] settei from Azamanga Daioh up for auctions on the last BWA--but I could be wrong.

As far as cels go, I usually hear them called "test cels," and there are some made for each episode as well. These are to help the cel painters, and thus are no longer used. When you see color settei, they are computer printouts for a CG show. I'm pretty sure that test cels are one of a kind--it doesn't seem economical to spend the time painting more than one cel. Thus, test cels are usually pretty big so that more than one animator can use them at a time.

For test cels, you might have more luck asking Jenny, Katie, or Rallihir about them. They have CCS test cels up in their respective galleries.

Jenny and Katie's: http://purpleplum.rubberslug.com/gallery/master_query.asp?SeriesID=20082

Rallihir's is delisted at the moment, so it wouldn't be cool to post a link here w/o permission.


Wow . . . I don't think I started off meaning to say that much . . .

*slinks back into her corner of shame*