Cel Animation

Cel Animation also known as tradition animation is done by drawing each individual frame by hand, this technique was the dominant form of animation for cinema until the advent of computer animation.

Creating a Cel Animation was a long process, that involved a lot of pre-production work also, story boards were made before the creation of the soundtrack, after this they would create was was called an animatic, where they would place slides from the story board in sync with the soundtrack to help create a general idea of how the animation needed to go, before animation began though they needed to go through character design and layouts, this would be where the background artists would draw in the background, choosing the camera angle and etc, finally the animation is created.

Cel animation works by taking individual frames and playing them back really quickly, this creates the illusion of movement to the audience.