Top 10 most expensive cels of all time

Post by **JWR** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:04 pm

Baron V. posted this on RS
http://www.your3dsource.com/most-expens ... -cels.html

Keropi · Post by **Keropi** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:20 pm

That was interesting. For some reason I thought there were a few others on that list, but I must have been thinking of the ones I seen around $15,000-$25,000.

It's kind of fun comparing my entire collection to one cel shown there.

Ms. Poe · Post by **Ms. Poe** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:02 pm

bravo on those early mickey cels...It would be interesting to compare these to japanese works...

Post by **sensei** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:07 pm

(the last movie to use cels was "The Little Mermaid" in 1989).

Heh. The last Disney movie to use cels was "The Little Mermaid." Japanese anime movies used cels at least up to 2001 ("A Tree of Palme").

And if so, what's with the alleged cel from "Aladdin," which followed "Little Mermaid" and "Beauty and the Beast"? A hanken?

I presume the "Mulan" animation art consists of conceptual paintings?

These are historically nice, but I still wuv my oversized "Tree of Palme" cels with original bgs: easily worth $30 grand to me.

sugarcels · Post by **sugarcels** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:07 pm

Whoa. Quite the wallet drainer! Or combuster

majinuub · Post by **majinuub** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:30 pm

No surprise that the list mostly comes from old and new disney features(Snow White isn't on the list?)

sensei wrote:
(the last movie to use cels was "The Little Mermaid" in 1989).
Heh. The last Disney movie to use cels was "The Little Mermaid." Japanese anime movies used cels at least up to 2001 ("A Tree of Palme").

And if so, what's with the alleged cel from "Aladdin," which followed "Little Mermaid" and "Beauty and the Beast"? A hanken?

Do you think the person meant made of only cels and didn't have any use of computers? Though I think there was some CG used for the little mermaid.

Post by **sensei** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:03 am

Anyone know the top ten most expensive anime cels? I only have records for CCS (Still #1 is 357,600 yen [ca. $3200] for the Kerochan no Omakase Pan cel of Sakura in the “Alice” costume from the “Little” episode (#24), sold on YJ on 12/17/03). But I know that nice Miyazaki cels and bgs have gone for 1M yen+ on Mandarake.

vapalla · Post by **vapalla** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:55 am

Well, art is pretty much worth what people will pay for it. Simply because people buy what they know, since everyone knows Disney, it is no surprise that the animation art on this list is all Disney. It isn't because Disney is BETTER, just that there are more people searching for art they know and they know about Disney. I honestly prefer the look of anime art- Just as some people collect western painters and some collect eastern wall scrolls. It is just a different aesthetic preference. Fortunately for me, the stuff I most like is generally within my budget! (And yes, I wouldn't want to trade my Korams from A Tree of Palme either.)

One other thing, these prices seem to be mostly from auction. There is no telling what else was sold for what by dealers or in private sales. It is just that auction records are public so unless sales are reported in some way, they aren't going to be there. The reason Snow White might not be on the list is because a cel hasn't come up for auction recently. (These prices mentioned do not appear to be adjusted for inflation either.)

Ms. Poe · Post by **Ms. Poe** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 12:52 pm

the mulan cels are basically a 1/1 cel...painted from the original sketches in-house for either the employees or charity auctions...i see them pop up on e-bay from time to time. They do hand-paint the backgrounds too.

vapalla · Post by **vapalla** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:03 pm

Ms. Poe wrote:

the mulan cels are basically a 1/1 cel...painted from the original sketches in-house

So they are somewhat akin to reliezu cels?

Moop · Post by **Moop** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 3:28 pm

vapalla wrote:So they are somewhat akin to reliezu cels?

I wish you hadn't said that. For some reason I find the idea of paying over $40,000 for a rilezu to be somewhat horrifying.

Keropi · Post by **Keropi** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 3:51 pm

sensei wrote:Anyone know the top ten most expensive anime cels? I only have records for CCS (Still #1 is 357,600 yen [ca. $3200] for the Kerochan no Omakase Pan cel of Sakura in the “Alice” costume from the “Little” episode (#24), sold on YJ on 12/17/03). But I know that nice Miyazaki cels and bgs have gone for 1M yen+ on Mandarake.

I don't know. Wasn't there some way of looking up most expensive completed auctions on YJ for anime cels (within the past three or four months)?

I remember those Kakyuusei TV series pan cels going for $4500-$6000 a couple years ago at Mandarake Big Web Auction. Those were pretty high prices for a TV series anime from 1999 (although the cels were quite nice).

Moop wrote:I wish you hadn't said that. For some reason I find the idea of paying over $40,000 for a rilezu to be somewhat horrifying.

I second that emotion with a

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Ms. Poe · Post by **Ms. Poe** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 7:39 pm

well, those 1/1 disney cels sold for so much since they were either charity auctions or that's the only one that will ever be painted for that scene.

Sometimes they may make several from one scene, but they were only given out to employees who worked on the production. Since those shows were never made from cels, they aren't production, but pricey nonetheless.

Check ebay every now and then...I see Mulan stuffage pop up more than anything else.

sailorsv13 · Post by **sailorsv13** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 3:03 am

I'm really not a big disney fan anymore

Those prices disgust me...I would trade one of those disney for my dream Sailor Moon cel any day ^.^

~ Bri ~

usamamo · Post by **usamamo** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:53 am