What are Backgrounds made with?

DRAGONBALL ONLY · Post by **DRAGONBALL ONLY** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 3:31 pm

I need to know what backgrounds are made with please. I know some are actual cels. But other are watercolour or acrylic? and what are they painted on? I hear high quality thick paper. Thanks

Elfstalker · Post by **Elfstalker** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 5:01 pm

The backgrounds I know of are thick paper painted with water colors. Some are laser copied- thin, glossy paper painted via computers which are becoming more frequent.

I've never heard of a background made of a cel! (maybe another cel layer that's not a background?)

DRAGONBALL ONLY · Post by **DRAGONBALL ONLY** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 5:06 pm

I don't feel like goin and buying ink for my printer to print a background every time I either buy a cel w/out a background or make a fan cel. I'll probably just make my own background. This cel looks like the background is a cel!?

http://page2.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b33352176

glorff · Post by **glorff** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 5:52 pm

Don't judge anything by that! It looks like a bad fan cel.

There are many cels with a foreground and/or a background acetate layer, and some special effects cels do not have backgrounds to allow the use of lighting effects. Everything else that I have ever seen has a watercolor paper background

DRAGONBALL ONLY · Post by **DRAGONBALL ONLY** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 5:55 pm

Thats not a fan cel bud. It's a production cel off yahoo japan...obviously. It's sort of looks like a fan cel, but I am 99.9% sure it's not.

pastatdude · Post by **pastatdude** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 6:05 pm

Actually, glorff was just comparing that cel to a bad fan cel. I don't think he meant that it actually was one.

In any case, I agree with him about how the cel looks, there's something weird about it.

glorff · Post by **glorff** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 6:05 pm

The opening bid is $12.71 and it probably will not get any bids. I own every Dragonball episode and movie and I am sure I would have noticed a sequence that was that different in quality from the rest of the show.
I am not the expert that some others here are, having only eleven DB cels, but hopefully they will join in.

DRAGONBALL ONLY · Post by **DRAGONBALL ONLY** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 6:08 pm

Oh, didn't know, sorry.

Elot · Post by **Elot** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 6:11 pm

no no no, you dont understand. Backgrounds are made from Ham and Cheese

Cheers

Elot

DRAGONBALL ONLY · Post by **DRAGONBALL ONLY** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 8:51 pm

lol, I knew it all along but nobody believed me

cyborg 17 · Post by **cyborg 17** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 8:52 pm

Elot wrote:no no no, you dont understand. Backgrounds are made from Ham and Cheese

your too funny Elot...just too funny!!!!

Little Poop · Post by **Little Poop** » Wed Mar 12, 2003 11:10 am

Actually some cels have the bg on a separate sheet of acetate or even on the same sheet sometimes. I have a couple.

monkeyboy · Post by **monkeyboy** » Wed Mar 12, 2003 12:16 pm

Speaking for myself, most of my backgrounds are made with watercolor paint mixed in some cases with tempera(an opaque watercolor). The paper is cardstock/watercolor paper. I do have cels where the background is painted right onto the cel with cel paint. And of course there are the laser copied backgrounds. That 's all I've heard of. I'm interested to know more.

OT wow, poop good to see you back!

dbzmomma · Post by **dbzmomma** » Wed Mar 12, 2003 12:34 pm

Just to throw in my late 1.7857 yen, I saw that episode just recently and the background does look like that.

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