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- noun Plural form of
cel .
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Examples
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Not sure I want someone else's skin cels on my face.
How to Felt Soap Anne-Marie 2008
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The name derives from clear sheets of acetate, called cels, which are painted on for use in traditional
GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features 2010
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The next big thing is hand animated cels, just like Tom & Jerry originally was, but in a modern setting using things we have today to play off of visually.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Tom and Jerry CGI project = Gonna suck 2009
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Mm, no, I think they were basically tracing and reusing old cels to get movies out quickly on a tight budget.
Disney Recycles 2009
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For the privilege of building Station250 on North Korean soil, I traded Kim Jong-il the original hand inked cels from Steamboat Willie.
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Round the Clock: Chinese American Artists Working in Los Angeles features 60-70 works by these Los Angeles-based artists, including paintings, watercolors, storyboard illustrations, animation cels, drawings, photographs, film clips, and ephemera.
Bill Bush: The Rise of the Los Angeles Art Scene: This Artweek.LA (January 30, 2012) Bill Bush 2012
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Hanna and Barbera weren't beloved by all artists, as they adapted to the cost constraints of '60s television budgets by working in "limited animation" -- by bumping up the character dialogue and reducing the movement, Hanna and Barbera could cut the number of needed cels by roughly a one-seventh ratio compared with film.
At 50, THE FLINTSTONES stand up as the bedrock of prime-time animated comedy Michael Cavna 2010
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"This is where things really got bleak -- it was like there were sleeper cels of documentarians cobbling these things together out of ordinary household items, like everyone who had ever won a prize at a regional film festival was making a 9/11 retrospective," reflects intelligence analyst Nathan Cauchemar.
David Kronke: TV Networks Revisiting the Revisiting of 9/11 David Kronke 2011
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Hot Topic with Taylor Lautner signed poster raffles and film cels
Twilight Lexicon » Counting Down to the Twilight DVD Release 2009
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Round the Clock: Chinese American Artists Working in Los Angeles features 60-70 works by these Los Angeles-based artists, including paintings, watercolors, storyboard illustrations, animation cels, drawings, photographs, film clips, and ephemera.
Bill Bush: The Rise of the Los Angeles Art Scene: This Artweek.LA (January 30, 2012) Bill Bush 2012
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