Digital
The move off celluloid from the late 1990s, and what changed in the image when the cel stopped existing.
Part of Anime
69 moments in this segment.
- - The Animation process of Sailor Moon.. The cel-era production process behind Sailor Moon, shown stage by stage.
- - The Animation Process From 1938. How a drawn film was put together in 1938, from drawing through to photography.
- - Digital Compositing & Visual Effects Problem 2 by Umehara Keiji. A digital compositing and visual effects exercise.
- - Inking & Painting Cel Animation. Inking and painting on physical cels, filmed at the bench.
- - History Of Anime - Part 3 - 1970s. Anime through the 1970s, covering the shows and studios of the decade.
- - 「神風式アニメーションの作りかた・魅せかた デジタル作画編」発売決定. An announcement for a published guide to the studio's digital drawing methods.
- - アニメ 仕上げ（デジタペイント） メイキング. The digital paint stage of finishing, shown as a short making-of.
- - Akira - The Animation and Coloring Process. How Akira's animation and colour were produced, including its unusually large palette.
- - 香純裕子先生「カラー扉＆まんがデジタル作画動画」. A manga artist draws a colour title page digitally, filmed at the tablet.
- - Traditional 2D Hand Drawn Morph Animation. A hand-drawn morph sequence animated on paper.
- - When Anime Went Digital. The point at which Japanese studios moved off celluloid and onto digital paint and compositing.
- - Anime's Digital Revolution. The shift from photographed cels to digital production lines, and what it changed about how a cut is finished.
- - Animation Cel Painting Process | Step by Step. Painting an animation cel from the back, step by step.
- - Creating a Traditional Cel Animation Artwork. Producing a finished cel artwork by traditional means.
- - 「うーにゃん」のアニメ撮影メイキング. A short compositing pass on an independent animated character.
- - 【ロングver 】史上初!? 少年サンデー 表紙イラスト作画作業公開!!. A magazine cover illustration drawn from blank canvas to finish.
- - Strive Stream 9: Anime Cel Painting in CSP 仕上げ. A long session on digital cel painting, working in the finishing stage the trade calls shiage.
- - Cel Animation Process (DIY). Making cel animation at home with improvised materials.
- - Anime Compositing - Simple Beginners Tutorial. Basic compositing for anime-style footage, taught from the start.
- - 日本アニメーション デジタル作画講座【動画編】-事前設定・動画・TP修正-. A digital drawing course covering in-between work, setup and timing-sheet corrections.
- - 日本アニメーション 夏のデジタル作画講座【原画編】(2020/7/23). A digital drawing course for key animation, run for staff at an animation company.
- - How It's Made | Traditional Cel Animation. How traditional cel animation was physically assembled.
- - 【ダンダダンができるまで】龍幸伸先生 インタビュー＆作画. Yukinobu Tatsu draws and discusses the origins of Dandadan.
- - 【ヒロアカ】堀越耕平先生が描く『デク』【ジャンプ作家の神ワザ】／“MY HERO ACADEMIA” Time-lapse Drawing Video [OFFICIAL]. Kohei Horikoshi draws the character Deku, filmed as a time lapse for the publisher.
- - The Little Witch - 2D animation integrate with live action. Drawn animation combined with live action footage.
- - 【アニメーションの作り方】アニメ撮影の仕事とは？/After Effects/メイキング映像. What the compositing role involves in an anime production, demonstrated in After Effects.
- - 10分でわかる アニメ制作工程. The anime production process compressed into ten minutes.
- - 【DEATH NOTE】小畑健先生が描く『夜神月』【ジャンプ作家の神ワザ】／“DEATH NOTE” Time-lapse Drawing Video [OFFICIAL]. Takeshi Obata draws Light Yagami in a time lapse released by the publisher.
- - 【デジタル作画・アニメ塗り・アニメイラスト 描き方 塗り方講座】作画技法徹底解説講座です！！【イラストメイキング】AIHARASTUDIO. Digital drawing and anime-style colouring explained as a complete technique.
- - The Kitten's Studio こねこのスタジオ (Short Animated Film - 1959). A 1959 short animated film about a kitten's studio.
- - アニメーターが作画時に絶対考える「作画のコツ」とは？【５分でわかる！かんたんアニメーションメイキング】. What an animator keeps in mind while drawing, condensed into a short explainer.
- - 【呪術廻戦】アクリルアートができるまで【工場見学】. A factory producing acrylic character goods, filmed on the line.
- - The grounds drawn on an animation cell (anime). The painted grounds laid behind the character layer on an animation cel.
- - アニメ「スプリガン」メイキングムービー Vol.1スタジオ風景. Studio footage from the production of Spriggan, released as the first of a making-of series.
- - アニメ「スプリガン」メイキングムービー Vol.5プロデューサートーク. The producer of Spriggan discusses the production in a later entry of the same series.
- - 2D Animation Reel 2022. A reel of 2D animation work.
- - Ravioli | Cel Animation Short Film | 2022. A short film made using cel animation.
- - Nutty's Running Exercise (Cel Animation). A running cycle exercise animated on cels.
- - Animation Post Production Like a PRO (After Effects Beginner Tutorial). Post-production finishing for animation, covered as a full workflow.
- - Webtoon Rendering Demo (real-time, anime cel-shading style). A real-time renderer producing cel-shaded output in an anime idiom.
- - 【アニメーション制作工程】「令和のデ・ジ・キャラット」ができるまで. The full production process for the Reiwa revival of Di Gi Charat, published by the show.
- - Anime Compositing in After Effects. An anime compositing pass assembled in After Effects from separated layers.
- - More Anime Compositing in After Effects. Further compositing work for anime-style footage assembled in After Effects.
- - 【制作の裏側】TVアニメ「僕の心のヤバイやつ」撮影Before＆After（by撮影監督・峰岸健太郎）. Cinematographer Kentaro Minegishi shows compositing before and after on The Dangers in My Heart.
- - ワンカットで制作された廊下＆階段シーンの原画撮影映像を解禁！｜TVアニメ「好きな子がめがねを忘れた」絶賛放送中. Key animation photographed for a corridor and stairway sequence built as a single continuous cut.
- - Intro to Anime Compositing in After Effects (Ramble). An introduction to the compositing stage as it is done for anime.
- - 【初公開】アニメ制作スタジオに潜入！アニメが生まれる場所に迫る！【ワオワールド】. A visit inside an animation production studio, filmed on the floor.
- - Cel Animation Tutorial. A tutorial in the cel animation process.
- - How I wrote, directed & animated a solo feature film. An animator describes writing, directing and animating a feature alone.
- - Anime Compositing process in After Effects. The compositing stage worked through on anime-style footage.
- - Animation Cels: The History, Collecting, and Preservation of a Lost Art Form. Painted acetate sheets treated as collectable objects, covering how they were produced and why they degrade in storage.
- - 【アニメーションの作り方】アニメ作画/アナログ/メイキング映像. Drawn animation produced by hand on paper, filmed as a making-of.
- - What no one tells you about Ghibli's animation. Technical aspects of Ghibli's animation that are rarely discussed.
- - Cel Process Video. A short record of the cel process being carried out.
- - compositing is fun. A brief look at a compositing pass in progress.
- - Is Cel Animation Still Used in Modern Cartoons and Anime Today? - Cartoon Fan Club. Whether any cel animation survives in current production, set against digital methods.
- - Anime Compositing | Process / Tutorial. A compositing pass walked through from raw layers to final image.
- - My First Animation using Krita & DaVinci Resolve. A first animated exercise made with open-source drawing and editing tools.
- - The Ultimate Anime Compositing Tutorial in After Effects Step by Step. A step by step build of an anime compositing pass.
- - I Turned the Puppettes Into a Classic Animation Cel!. Existing characters rendered as a hand-painted animation cel.
- - เเชร์เทคนิค Anime Composite เพิ่มเติม I After Effect. Additional anime compositing technique shared in Thai.
- - Advanced Composition - After Effects Tutorial. Layered compositing techniques demonstrated at an advanced level on animated footage.
- - 【売上7億円】漫画家ルームツアー『軍神と偽りの花嫁』【作画1日密着】 #12. A day at the desk with a serialised manga artist, filmed through the drawing process.
- - 生成AIでアニメ制作に“革命的変化” 3週間の作業が4日に短縮 「鷹の爪」DLE社長が語る“現場の今”（2026年03月09日）. A 2026 news report in which the head of the studio DLE describes generative tools cutting a three week task to four days.
- - How Japanese Studios Use CG to Cheat 2D Animation | Behind the Scenes. Three dimensional geometry built underneath output designed to read as hand-drawn, shown with production examples.
- - Anime Compositing Tutorial. A tutorial building an anime compositing treatment from the base artwork up.
- - 【アニメ制作にAI導入の波】人手不足の救世主？人間を淘汰？『1枚30分』→『200枚を10～20分』歴46年のアニメーターは「私の仕事がなくなっても全て許容しなければ」（2026年7月7日）. A 2026 Japanese news report on AI entering anime production, in which an animator of forty-six years' experience responds to the prospect of the work changing.
- - Storyboard Animation (3000+Frames). A long storyboard animated across several thousand frames.
- - 【アニメ制作の裏側】CGに動きを与え、絵に変える。「CGアニメーター」と「コンポジター」の仕事に密着取材【6HP】. CG animators and compositors filmed at work, showing how 3D is turned into drawn-looking frames.