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Featured Cel:
Hyper Police: Natsuki ED cel (added 03/30/07)
Featured Sketch:
Powerpuff Girls Z: Ep. 23B - Buttercup in a moment of frustration (Added 03/19/07).
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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, "Thundering Thumbnails," wanders through a part of my gallery that probably doesn't get investigated very often: the "extra" images that are included but not featured. While not viewed as often as the featured images, they are often eyeworthy, and so this tour gives 24 of them their due.
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 snapshot of our front yard, where over a yard of February snow has finally melted down to scraps, letting the first bulbs of March start to emerge. The background is a detail from a bright early-spring sky from Ep. 68 of Cardcaptor Sakura, which appears in the tour of seasons just as winter loses its hold and flowers start to appear.
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New Arrivals:
Usagi-chan de Cue!!: Mikami on the offensive (added 2/28/10).
Gegege no Kitaro: Yōkai Odoro-Odoro (added 2/25/10).
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News & Updates
| | | | 3/3/2010 | | No new additions, but I'm doing gallery maintenance and adding more reanimated gifs of existing sketch sets. | | | | 3/1/2010 | | Sensei’s Upgrade 2010.02 includes a large new batch of dramatic CCS sketches, which are the focus of two new galleries. The first is devoted to Gengas from both CCS Movies, including a number of interesting reanimations of sketch sets. The second, including a major genga acquisition, highlights Episode 42 (The Sleeping Beauty performance). Also, a nice CCS Movie cel is up.
Elsewhere, there are additions to my cels from A Tree of Palme and from Ah My Goddess! Finally, I’ve uploaded some interesting Gegege no Kitaro sketches with a strong folklore emphasis.
Another new gallery (but with some old friends) is ”One of a Kind” where oddball and mysterious acquisitions gather (don’t miss the new bunny girl!). In addition, the Quirky Gallery Tour has been renewed.
Enjoy! and Think Spring! | | | | 1/23/2010 | | 60K Hits! Thanks, everyone for visiting. | | | | 1/16/2010 | | Sensei’s Upgrade 2010.01 has added some lovely new items: From Ah My Goddess! a wonderful rough animator’s sketch of Holy Bell and Belldandy. From Hyper Police, “Peau” having a nice dinner with the werewolf Tommy-kun (now with all the layers and the matching background), and also an elegant cel of The fox-spirit Sakura in a happy mood. From MKR, a new cel of Hikaru meeting Umi and Fuu. And from TnN, a new cel of Yuusuke meeting Noelle in Ep. 1, now likewise with the original matching background. Also, as part of routine maintenance, I’m replacing old, icky scans of gengas with much improved ones. | | |
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