CEL ANIMATION IS BACK - The Animated Spangled Banner by Michael Ngo

Welcome to Minnovation Studios. Today I made my first ever animation with traditional hand painted animation cels. Animation cels are nothing more than transparent sheets of plastic that you would ink on one side with india ink and paint with acrylic paint on the other side. This used to be only way to make 2d Animation before digital ink and paint came along. Once digital ink and paint became cheaper, a lot of animation studios abandoned the process of animation cels. However, animation cels never truly died. There are lot of independent artists that experimented with animation cels over the years. I happen to be one of those artists and am excited to show you guys my first ever animation.

This animation is called the Animated Spangled Banner. It uses 50 animation cels with 12 different color paints. It will be a 2 second animation that repeats over the course of 2 minutes. In order to make the short more interesting, I decided to play the national anthem alongside the animation. There are 3 main reasons why I wanted to do this animation. One is that I wanted to create my first animation with a not too complicated subject. I wanted to do a random green flag at first, but then I decided to change it to the American flag eventually. The second reason is that I always had a pet peeve that the American flag is usually displayed incorrectly in most animation films. As a result, I animated this flag with all 50 stars and 13 stripes. I forgot to mention in the video but the third reason is that I wanted to show my love for the best country in the world, the United States of America.

Hope you guys like the animation and stay for the end of the video as I got some things that I would like to mention to you guys.
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If you guys want to support this channel, you can do so by getting Minnovation Master Slides. These are 35mm souvenir slides that I am currently selling on ebay. You must be thinking that I crazy to sell 35mm slides in 2018, but I have a good reason. The quality on YouTube does not even compare to what the original film looked like. If you guys are interested in seeing how good my animation actually looks, the link to the listing is located below.
Link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/143016617857

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