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

7/14/2010Sensei’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!
 
6/24/2010Three 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!)
 
5/25/2010Sensei’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).
 
5/7/2010Sensei’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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Title Last Updated
A Gallery Tour

7/12/2010
A Quirky Ten Years of Collecting

7/9/2010
A Really Really Quick Gallery Tour

7/12/2010
A Tree of Palme: Palme and Popo 2/27/2010
A Tree of Palme: Shatta and Koram 2/27/2010
A Tree of Palme: Sketches and Backgrounds 2/20/2009
A Tree of Palme: Supporting Cast

2/27/2010
Ah My Goddess!

3/1/2010
Asatte no Hōkō (Living for the Day After Tomorrow)

7/12/2010
Card Captor Sakura: The Movies 2/19/2010
Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movies - Gengas 3/8/2010
CCS: And Friends 7/15/2009
CCS: Backgrounds 7/11/2010
CCS: Clow Cards 8/15/2009
CCS: Costumes 8/15/2009
CCS: Episode 01 7/13/2010
CCS: Episode 01: The Fly Capture 5/31/2009
CCS: Episode 40 5/5/2008
CCS: Episode 42 2/24/2010
CCS: Episode 69 9/30/2009
CCS: In Action 10/10/2008
CCS: Kerberos/Kero-chan 2/5/2009
CCS: Meilin 9/14/2007
CCS: Sakura Portraits 11/19/2009
CCS: Syaoran 9/17/2008
CCS: Touya/Yukito/Yue 7/9/2010
CCS: Yue Captured by Sakura’s Magic

3/4/2007
Condition Green OAV: Cels and bgs 10/3/2006
Condition Green OAV: Storyboard

5/17/2006
Gegege no Kitarō: Cels 2/3/2009
Gegege no Kitarō: Sketches

3/2/2010
Genshiken

12/30/2008
Grimm Masterpiece Theatre

5/14/2009
Hyper Police Cels 1/16/2010
Hyper Police Sketches: Natsuki (and Sakura) 12/10/2008
Hyper Police Sketches: The Other Sakura 12/30/2008
Hyper Police Sketches: The Rest

5/5/2010
Inuyasha 11/19/2009
Inuyasha sketches: Others 3/3/2010
Inuyasha sketches:The Secret Flower Garden

9/17/2008
Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne: Maron, Jeanne, & Fish Fin 6/24/2008
Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne: Rivals and Demons 6/28/2007
KKJ Ep 16: A First Kiss Illuminated by Moonlight 1/18/2008
KKJ Ep 34: Confession of Separation!

6/28/2008
Magic Knight Rayearth: 1 Hikaru 1/16/2010
Magic Knight Rayearth: 2 Umi 11/14/2008
Magic Knight Rayearth: 3 Fuu 7/15/2009
Magic Knight Rayearth: 4 Others 2/5/2009
Magic Knight Rayearth: 5 Episode 49

3/25/2010
Mushishi: Facsimile Sketches 8/30/2006
Mushishi: Episode 26 Art Boards

5/15/2007
NieA_7

3/7/2010
One of a Kind

5/7/2010
Powerpuff Girls Z 5/11/2007
PPGZ Ep 07A: The Miracle Fighting Ace Caper 3/28/2008
PPGZ Ep 15 A: The Targeted Fashion Show 4/30/2008
PPGZ Ep. 15 A: The Targeted Fashion Show: Settei 5/8/2007
PPGZ Ep. 23 B: The Kabutomushi Tournament 3/19/2007
PPGZ Ep. 29 B: Saturday Powerpuff Fever 6/1/2007
PPGZ Ep. 35 A: We're Not Weeds! 6/12/2007
PPGZ Ep. 44: Kaoru Loves Biceps 3/19/2008
PPGZ: Ep. 49A: The Love Love Beam

5/22/2008
Princess Tutu

7/12/2010
Rozen Maiden

7/20/2010
Saiyuki: Good Guyz 11/19/2009
Saiyuki: Son Goku 7/15/2009
Saiyuki: The Bad Guyz

2/27/2010
Sasami: Mahou Shoujo Club 5/14/2009
Sasami: MSC: Episode 25

5/14/2009
Slayers: Lina and Amelia 9/23/2007
Slayers: The Rest of the Cast

7/7/2007
Tenshi ni Narumon: OP cels 5/31/2009
TnN: Dispell and Other Villains 3/30/2007
TnN: Eros and Muse 2/5/2009
TnN: Family and Friends 2/2/2007
TnN: Mikael and Raphael 9/30/2009
TnN: Miruru and Gabriel 12/8/2006
TnN: Natsumi 9/30/2009
TnN: Noelle and Yuusuke 1/15/2010
TnN: Step 19 (The Bu Bu Bloomers Episode) 12/11/2007
TnN: Step 22 (The Temptation of Eros) 2/26/2006
TnN: Step 25: (Because I Want Everything...) 9/30/2009
TnN: Step 26 (What is Truly Important)

1/5/2009
Tonde Buurin: Karin, Buurin, and Ton-chan 5/9/2008
Tonde Buurin: Karin's Expressions 1/15/2008
Tonde Buurin: Keiko the Pain 5/9/2008
Tonde Buurin: Supporting Cast 5/9/2008
Tonde Buurin: The Archaeology Episode 3/11/2010
Tonde Buurin: The Piggy Suits Episode 1/15/2008
Tonde Buurin: WTF Moments

5/9/2008
Usagi-chan de Cue!!

5/23/2010
Vampire Princess Miyu

5/6/2010
xxxHolic 9/11/2007
 

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