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Featured Cel:
Meilin vs. The Fight Card (Purchased 2/15/02).
Featured Sketch:
Cardcaptor Sakura (Ep. 32): Sakura reacts to the Syaoran/Kero personality switch (holograph rough by Masaru Kitao), received 2/29/12).
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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 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 one of the "Quick Gallery Tours." Now divided into three categories -- Golden Age, Classic Cel-Based, and Contemporary CGI-Based -- they give a picture of the whole collection at a glance, and then review each series I collect, one page per series, with a lot of links to the individual galleries as you go.
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 banner is a detail from a cel from Maeterinck's Blue Bird (Office Academy 1980), showing The Light (received 2/29/12). The background is a detail from a snapshot of Sensei's back yard during a wintry but sunny day.
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New Arrivals:
Gegege no Kitaro (Series 3): Jiniya no Papa
Cardcaptor Sakura - Clear Cards (Ep. 9): On the road to the Aquarium (original background)
Cardcaptor Sakura - Clear Cards (Ep. 9): On the road to the Aquarium (copy genga with background artist's holograph revisions
Grimms' Fairy Tales - The Golden Bird: Hans meets the Princess
Rozen Maiden Zuruckspulen (Ep. 13): Shinku begs Elder Jun to help her once again
Tenshi ni Narumon (Ep. 25): Yuusuke Climbing to the Celestial Stairway
Asatte no Houko (Ep. 9): Kotomi has a cool idea
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News & Updates
| | | | 3/22/2020 | | Sensei's Upgrade 2020.01 (Sheltered in Place) includes new items in:
Cardcaptor Sakura 18: Original Backgrounds
Magic Knight Rayearth 3: Fuu (Studio CLAMP, 1997)
Magic Knight Rayearth 5: Episode 49 (Studio CLAMP, 1997)
Magic Knight Rayearth: OVA Cels (Studio CLAMP, 1997)
Asatte no Houkou 2: Episodes 4-6 (J.C. Staff, 2006)
Fruits Basket (Studio Deen, 2001)
Rozen Maiden 1: Episode 11 (Nomad, 2004)
| | | | 7/11/2019 | | Sensei's Upgrade 2019.03 (High Summer) includes new items in:
Maeterlinck's Blue Bird (Office Academy 1980)
Gegege no Kitaro (Series 3) (Toei 1985-88)
Grimm's Fairy Tales: The Golden Bird (Madhouse, 1984)
A Tree of Palme: Sketches (Palme Co, 2001)
Magic Knight Rayearth 3: Fuu (Studio CLAMP, 1997)
Magic Knight Rayearth 5: Episode 49 (Studio CLAMP, 1997)
Angelic Layer (BONES. 2001)
Fruits Basket (Studio Deen, 2001)
Gegege no Kitaro (Series 5): Others (Toei 2007-09)
NEW: Kino's Journey (A.C.G.T. 2003)
Rozen Maiden 1: Shinku and Jun (Nomad, 2004)
Rozen Maiden 2: Everybody Else (Nomad, 2004)
| | | | 4/22/2019 | | Sensei's Upgrade 2019.02 (Spring is Sprung) includes new items in:
Fushigi na Koala Blinky / Noozles) (Nippon 1984)
Wata no Kuni Hoshi (Mushi, 1984)
Magic Knight Rayearth 4: Others (Studio CLAMP, 1997)
Magic Knight Rayearth 5: Episode 49 (Studio CLAMP, 1993-95)
Asatte no Houkou 2: Episodes 4-6 (J. C. Staff. 2006)
NEW: Asatte no Houkou 6: Episode 11 (J. C. Staff. 2006)
Asatte no Houkou 7: Episode 12 (J. C. Staff. 2006)
Fruits Basket (Studio Deen, 2001)
Rozen Maiden 1: Shinku and Jun (Nomad, 2004)
Rozen Maiden 2: Everybody Else (Nomad, 2004)
NEW: Rozen Maiden 3: Episode 11 (Nomad, 2004)
| | | | 2/28/2019 | | Sensei's Upgrade 2019.01 (Think Spring) includes new items in:
One or Two of a Kind (Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Madhouse 2001)
Magic Knight Rayearth: 5 Episode 49 (Studio CLAMP, 1993-95)
Magic Knight Rayearth: OVA Cels (Studio CLAMP, 1997)
Tenshi ni Narumon 02: Noelle and Yuusuke (Pierrot, 1999)
Angelic Layer (BONES, 2001)
Ouran High School Host Club (BONES, 2006)
NieA_7 (Triangle Staff, 1999)
Rozen Maiden 3: Episode 12 (Nomad, 2004)
Rozen Maiden Zuruckspulen: Eps. 1-9 (Studio Deen, 2013)
Sasami: Mahou Shoujo Club: Rough Settei (AIC, 2006)
NEW! Texhnolyze (Madhouse, 2003-04)
xxxHolic/Tsubasa (Bee Train, 2005)
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