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Clean-up




Clean-up is a part of the workflow in the production of hand-drawn Animation , in which "clean" versions of the "rough" animation drawings are produced.

The first drawings are called "roughs" or "rough animation" because they are often done in a very loose fashion. If the animation is successfully Pencil Test ed and approved by the director, clean versions of the drawings have to be done. In larger Studio s this task is given to the animator's assistant, or, in a more specialised setting, to a clean-up-artist. The artist doing the clean-ups has to have better drawing skills than the animator, and he has to painstakingly follow the Model Sheet s of the characters.

Clean-ups generally are done on a new sheet of paper. They can be done on the same sheet as the rough animation if this was done with a "non-copy blue" pencil. This certain tone of blue will be invisible for Photocopy ing machines or grayscale Scanners , where the finished animation will be copied on cels or transferred into a computer for further processing.


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