Cell Animation

The colouring of animations is generally pretty set in the style of cell painted animation, for example there is a consistent style of colouring in cell animation because this has been the set style for cell animation in the early Disney years up until 'The Little Mermaid’, which was the last Disney animation to use cell colouring. The process of painted cell animation included lots of workers, who were usually women at the time cell painted animation was popular, each worker has sheets of acetate that they painted over. This process took place after the animators had drawn the frames to paper. The reason the frames were traced onto acetate was because acetate is transparent and this meant that other foreground objects such as other characters, objects and the background could be layered above or behind the character.