What means ?

When I add some cels in my room some informations are wanted :

"End Cel", "Book Cel", "Key Cel", etc...

What are each one ?

Can i have some information somewhere ?

Thanks

Lionel (SaintCelia.rubberslug.com)

End cel: The last cel in a sequence. Usually if you have an END cel, it will be written on the cel and the sketch.

Book cel: Means that there is a "foreground" piece of art with the cel as well. For example.. a door frame, or trees or something. Something to give the illusion of a real space.

Key cel: Means that the cel image was drawn by a key animator. A key animator has been drawing for animation for over 10 years. They usually draw better overall (better proportions). They most commonly start and end sequences. You can tell if you have a key cel if the number on the sketch is circled.. (rarely is it circled on the cel itself)

Hope that helps.

Your informations got me well

But about "book cel", I have a cel with 3 layers : the body, the mouth and the eyes of the character.

Is it a "book cel" ? Or just a "cel" ?

what you have described is *not* a book cel because it is just 3 layers of cel. It is common for cels to have multiple layers for mouths and eyes, hair.. etc.

If you have a cel with 2 or more background pieces, then that would be a book cel.

How does "bank cel" relate to these terms? I understand this to mean a stereotyped sequence of cels that appears many times during a series and is animated the same way each time, with only changes in costume.

For instance, in CCS, whenever Sakura invokes her wand or calls out a Clow Card, she does so in exactly the same way each time. From what I've observed, bank cels are less desirable because they are not animated from scratch but simply recycle the same sequence.