Terry Pratchett's Discworld Death + Crowd Hanna Barbera #3/5 + Hand-Painted Cels

Description: You arebuying one of only 5 Pairs of Animation Frames and matching hand-painted colour animation Cels (2 of each). Photos are examples of the quality you can expect. The exact frames you receive will vary slightly Basically you are getting 2 overlaid frames from the same scene of Discworld II we happened to find. There were only 5 frames of the Troll holding back the audience (the Troll shown in the right of game screenshot). They can be displayed on top of the Death on Stage frame to recreate a larger scene. See our recent feedback regarding these Cels: "Absolutely stunning piece, wont find anything like it anywhere else! First class service as always, with the cel well packaged for delivery - even came with protective gloves as a bonus. Highly recommended seller." Death on Stage and Audience with Troll Bouncer #3 of 5 Bouncer and crowd frame 3 of 5 Death on stage frame (number between 11 and 20) Purchase Includes: An original pencil animation drawing of Death, by Hanna Barbera studios, stamped with the Perfect 10 Productions company seal. An original pencil animation drawing of a Troll and 3 audience members being held back, by Hanna Barbera studios, stamped with the Perfect 10 Productions company seal. A hand-painted colour animation Cel of the Death pencil drawing. Example of Cel quality shown in this listing. A hand-painted colour animation Cel of the Troll and 3 audience members. Example of Cel quality shown in this listing. A pair of new white cotton gloves (men's large) will be included to handle the animation Cels as they are delicate and scratches should be avoided. An industry standard AMCE 3 pin peg bar, affixed to white art foamboard, will be used to ship the frames to you. This can be removed and reused for final presentation if desired (currently affixed with double-sided tape). The paper animation frame will be placed onto the peg par on the board first (see photos). A second clear acetate animation sheet will be placed on top of the paper frame to protect from any paint transfer from the Cel. The Painted Cel will be placed on top of the clear acetate sheet. A wax-finished protective brown paper sheet will be placed on top of the animation Cel to protect the side which had the ink drawn See photos for more details. The last 5 pictures show the layers used for packaging the frame and Cel safely for shipping and the gloves. The photos are of the actual cel. This was was already painted to final quality.1st full frame "paper" image is from the actual frame/image you will receive. History Over 20,000 hand drawn frames were hand-drawn for Terry Pratchett's second Discworld Game, by the famous Hanna Barbera Animation studios, at a cost of over a million pounds. Some frames had loads of characters, and some were single characters. A huge number of the frames were just bits and pieces of characters and were discarded. Most of the remainder were stamped with the Perfect 10 Productions company seal. Among the 2 boxes kept of this treasure trove, there were a batch of sequential drawings of Death arriving on stage with his Aussie hat on. A few of these Death frames have been sold separately over the years, but I always felt the remainder needed special treatment. ORDER You are ordering one of a very limited collection of 30 (maximum) animation frames, with matching hand-painted animation Cel, similar to the one shown. Once they are gone, they are gone. The drawings are all originals. Frame numbers will be issued in the order of purchase, starting with numbers 10-20 in this listing. The frames will be sold based on the order they were originally drawn and stored. The paper frame will be hand-numbered in pencil ("10/30" etc) while the animation Cel will the number written in Cel ink at the bottom left corner (matching the frame number of course). All pencil drawings are slightly different, and will be shown as the first paper image. All these drawings have Death facing the camera while talking to the audience. As you can see they are highly detailed. Death is also positioned quite central to the animation frame, as shown in the pencil drawings. This makes them perfect for display. The animation frames are the original pencil drawing, by Hanna Barbera studios in the late 1990's, on standard F12 animation paper. A professional Cel animator (who used to paint Cels decades ago, before the world went digital) has been commissioned to hand-paint the matching coloured animation Cels. Individually these would take over 6 hours each to produce, so the only way we can afford this manual process is to have them paint multiple, similar coloured, frames at the same time (e.g. one colour at a time on multiple Cels, then repeat for each different colour). Each coat takes at least 30 minutes to dry. Some Discworld Cels require up to 10 different colours. The coloured animation Celsare on industry standard sized cellulose sheets with industry standard registration holes The coloured animation Celsarepainted using rather expensive vinyl paints, specifically created for Cel animation. These paints now only appear to be made by a single UK company. On request we can let you know exactly what you would need to paint similar Cels yourself, but the total cost of equipmentand materials is well over 500 (not to mention a lot of practice and a very steady hand). The painting process requires multiple coats of vinyl paint. It is a very labour intensive process, so please bear that in mind. Once all 10 of these frames have sold, we will list numbers 20-30. Once they are all sold we will list the final batch of numbers 1-9. Notes: Any images clearly marked "Draft only" are not the final quality you can expect. These were produced to test the colours and suitability of the images for Cel painting. If they are not marked Draft Only, they are final quality. A few of the required colours are not available as stock, but the Cel artist we are using is skilled at colour mixing. This should mean all frames in this batch are very similar colours to each other, but we have to allow very slight variances. If you want multiple frames best order them together so the exact same paint colours are used on all frames. The animation frames and Cel are suitable for framing, but special care must be taken with the framing of animation Cels. Please seek professional assistance to avoid long-term damage to these delicate one-off pieces of art. Minor defects on the paper frames (faint creasing or other handling marks) can be expected due to the handling during production of the game (a paper feeding scanner was used). They have since then been safely stored flat for over 25 years. Please do handle with care on the receiving end as Cel acetate sheets can scratch easily. White cotton gloves recommended for handling (and are supplied). Frame History: There were around 20,000 original pencil drawings commissioned from Hanna Barbera for Discworld II "Missing presumed?" (called Discworld II "Mortality Bytes" in the USA). I was the lead developer on the first two Discworld games, so I was able to purchase the entire lot of animation frames after the completion of the second game (and spent the following months sorting through them). Side note: The first Discworld game used only pixel drawings, so no animation frames exist for that one. Of the 20,000 frames, only a few thousand frames were usable, as standalone images, as most frames were only parts of animations and were discarded. Most of the remaining frames were stamped with the Perfect 10 Productions company seal to confirm they were genuinely from the game. Side note: Many smaller images were kept, and may be listed later, but were not deemed worthy of stamping at the time (using a company seal 1000's of times to emboss paper is very painful and time was limited). Shipping: The frames have been carefully stored for over 25 years, and handling has been kept to a minimum. The acetate Cels have only been handled using white cotton gloves (by the Cel artist and by us). They will be shipped in a well padded box, mounted on a pegbar and foam board as specified, to avoid any Cel paint transferring to the paper frames or ink rubbing off the top surface.

Price: 349.99 GBP

Location: Hove, East Sussex

End Time: 2024-10-26T22:40:14.000Z

Shipping Cost: 45.47 GBP