The basics cover you from your originalsketchesto the painted cells needed to bring the animation to life.
Drawing Pencil Sets
A set of drawing pencils is essential.
Usually, a regular wooden pencil works best.
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Eberhard Faber and Sanford and Tombow make high-quality collections of drawing pencils with various lead hardnesses.
When you’re retracing animation, 2B pencils are good choices.
They are soft enough to give for a varied line but hard enough to make dark clean lines.
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3-Hole Punched Paper
You need something to draw on with your pencil sets.
Three-hole-punched paper attaches to a small peg bar taped on your light table to hold the paper in place.
The light table has two primary purposes.
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Use it to retrace your sketched frames and to sketch new frames as in-betweens.
A light table illuminates your artwork from beneath to make it transparent enough to see through for reference.
A small light tracer box with a 10-inch-by-12-inch slanted drawing surface works for thebudget-minded animator.
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Check your local arts and crafts store to find one.
It’s difficult to find anything packaged as “cels.”
What you need are copy-safe transparency films.
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Paints
When the cels are done, you need paints.
Painting on slick cels is difficult and requires a thick paint.
Most people use acrylics.
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That way, there’s no chance that the wet paint will smudge the copied lines.
Brushes
You need a set of paintbrushes that range from midsize to a fine hairline.
Static backgrounds for a single motion sequence only have to be drawn once.
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Occasionally, Prismacolor colored pencils do the job for backgrounds.
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