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Featured Cel:
Tenshi ni Narumon: Mama Breaks Through the Patriarchal Glass Wall (Uploaded 7/10/2006).
Featured Sketch:
NieA_7: Chie and Mayuko (My first NieA genga: Uploaded 7/20/2006).
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Welcome to my collection of animation art! As you'll see, I take a "museum" approach, annotating the items I collect, putting them in context whenever possible, and providing background information on the series and the creators.
This site is an opportunity to learn more about the artistic process behind animation. So in addition to beautiful cels, you'll see some of the production materials--sketches, backgrounds, settei, storyboards, "test" cels--that let us look behind the scenes at how animation studios produced these series.
If you're not sure where to start, begin with the "Quick Gallery Tour." There I've given a picture of the whole collection on one page, and then reviewed each series I collect, one page per series, with a lot of links to the individual galleries as you go.
Another good place to start is the "Quirky Gallery Tour", which calls out items in my collection for special attention according to a frequently changing theme. The present tour, "A Quirky Ten Years of Collecting," celebrates the tenth anniversary of my first animation art purchase. It features this cel, plus memorable additions made every six months afterwards, along with some contemporary quotes that show how my approach to collecting developed over time.
And if you're a real lover of animation art, then go to "Private Area" and type in the super-secret password "seemorestuff" to gain access to lots of extras that I've hidden to keep the gallery easy to explore.
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The current banner is based on a cel from the Tonde Buurin OP animation showing the entire cast in appropriately summertime garb. The background is a detail from a digicam shot of Momiji, the Japanese maple in my front yard, which (like his namesake in Fruits Basket) has grown from a cute sapling into a substantial accent shrub this year.
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New Arrivals:
Princess Tutu: The Town Square at night (added 7/10/10).
Asatte no Hōkō: The runaway Karada spots Hiro on the train platform (added 7/12/10).
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News & Updates
| | | | 7/14/2010 | | Sensei’s Upgrade 2010.05 (Tenth Anniversary of Collecting) features a new gallery devoted to Asatte no Hōkō (recently released here as Living for the Day After Tomorrow).
A CCS highlight is being able to reunite my cel of Yukito offering Syaoran its original matching background. Also added to CCS galleries is a new Ep. 68 autumn background and several gengas from Episode One, including a set of Sakura rollerblading to school and one showing her releasing the key wand for the first time.
My Princess Tutu collection is richer for a nice clean-up drawing of Fakir and Ahiru and for two new original backgrounds, including this a nighttime background from a key scene. Several dramatic sketches have gone up in the Rozen Maiden gallery, notably Jun and Shinku reacting to the arrival of Suigintou’s killer clown, plus Shinku combating Hina-Ichigo in the strange, violent “Alice Game” that the dolls play among themselves, plus Suiseiseki reacting with horror on learning that her twin has capitulated to their enemy.
Finally, the Quirky Gallery Tour has been renewed to review, year by quirky year, the development of my collection. Enjoy: it’s been ten good ones!
| | | | 6/24/2010 | | Three awards in the 2010 Anime-Beta Sketch Contest: Tranquility (3rd), Villainous (2nd), and Creature (First!) Stop by and congratulate these three (don't stay too long at "Villainous" as that terminator device just might be armed!) | | | | 5/25/2010 | | Sensei’s Upgrade 2010.04 (May Misdemeanors: Girls and Dolls) features quite a few very nice additions to Usagi-chan de Cue!! (cels) and to Rozen Maiden (sketches). | | | | 5/7/2010 | | Sensei’s Upgrade 2010.03 (May Misdemeanors Part 1) features two new galleries, one devoted to sketches from Rozen Maiden, and the other to cels from the ecchi but visually attractive Usagi-chan de Cue!! (more to come on both fronts!) Another feature is a rare rilezu from Haibane Renmei. Also worth a visit are nice sketches from Hyper Police and from the Vampire Princess Miyu OVA. In addition, the Quirky Gallery Tour has been renewed to pay tribute to the great dealer’s site Anime Museum, which, alas, recentlyclosed for good. | | |
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