Ok. Yes. I should have said “cel style” animation, which still isolates the character from it’s background rather than allowing both to exist in a digital world together. It’s still called “cel style” animation.
I tend to enjoy actually owning old cels. My favorite is a close up shot I have of Scrooge McDuck from the first season of Ducktails. It’s amazing how thick layers of paint can be for something like close-ups, but another cel – like my Real Ghostbusters cel of Winston, Egon, Ray and Slimer running through the streets – has only 3 or 4 colors and isn’t quite as thick.
Cels are super cheap on eBay if you’re in to owning little pieces of animation, by the way. Not everything is available all the time (for instance, as I’m writing this, someone is dumping a bunch of old Rugrats cels, when usually it’s something more obscure like Lonestar).
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