A cel, short for celluloid, is a transparent sheet on which objects are drawn or painted for traditional, hand-drawn animation. Actual celluloid (consisting of cellulose nitrate and camphor) was used during the first half of the 20th century. Since it was flammable and dimensionally unstable, celluloid was largely replaced by cellulose acetate.

ANIMATION AMERICA was established in 2000 to provide high quality Original Cels, Drawings and Limited Edition Art from Worldwide Animation Studios. At ANIMATION AMERICA, we offer collectors more than just Animation art. We also feature Graded Comic Books, Graded Pokemon Cards, Non-Sports and Sports Cards!

Cel painting is a classical animation practice where you ink and paint clear acetate sheets and layer them with other cels or backgrounds. We see the ghosts of this process in software like Toon Boom’s Harmony or in some hybridized trad-digital workflows in independent animation.

Cel animation is a type of traditional animation where artists draw each frame by hand on transparent sheets of plastic called “cels.” These cels allow characters and foreground elements to be layered separately from static backgrounds, creating dynamic sequences without the need to redraw every element in a scene.

Gallery C has been a national animation art dealer since 1985 and we pride ourselves on offering rare, hard-to-find vintage animation artwork from virtually all the major studios including, Disney, Warner Brothers, MGM, DePatie-Freleng, Walter Lantz, and Hanna-Barbera.

The Simpsons, Hanna-Barbera, Peanuts and other major animation studios. We serve cartoon fans and animation art collectors throughout the US, Canada, the UK, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

Original production cels are one-of-a-kind pieces of art that were used in the creation of an animated film or television show. Each has been hand-painted by studio artists on a piece of celluloid acetate, and has been photographed over a background painting to create a frame of the finished production.

Timeless Cel Gallery specializes in original art and production cels from animations throughout history, including but not limited to Studio Ghibli, Disney, Dragon Ball/DBZ, Akira, Pokemon, Evangelion, Gundam, Tom & Jerry, Looney Tunes, Sailor Moon, Keith Haring, Tezuka Osamu, King of the Hill, Simpsons, and many more!

A cel (short for celluloid) is a blank clear plastic sheet used by the studio artist to paint an animated character or object based on the animator's original pencil drawing. The cels are then placed over a background and photographed in sequence to produce an illusion of life in the completed film or cartoon short.

The animation celluloid (or cel, spelt with one "l") is the most sought after form of animation art. The cel is made by the artist, who traces the outline of his drawing onto a sheet of celluloid or acetate in ink.