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Traditional animation

Animation technique in which frames are hand-drawn Painting with acrylic paint on the reverse side of an already inked animation cel, here placed over the original drawing Traditional animation (or classical animation, cel animation, or hand-drawn animation) is a term retronymically applied to the dominant form of animation of the 20th century in the United States until the shift to computer animation in the industry, in which each frame is drawn by hand.

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