Animation Art Recreated

A: Good question, in some cases, what we remember seeing on screen as a child is not the same as what you find when you see the images in real life. The colors aren't as sharp or the line work isn't as crisp. My intent is to not alter the image in any real sense of the word but to bring out exactly what you remember it looking like when you watched it as a child. So sometimes I'll pop the colors or add a gradient or enhance the shadow to help bring the image to life.

A: In some cases yes. But in the same way animation art has been for decades. Some original cels and backgrounds were so damaged that studios hire teams of artists to 'recreate them' tracing over and repainting the original artwork. The Service I'm offering is exactly the same, this time just done digitally where you'll get a pristine 'clean' gallery quality, hand drawn print of the original scene at a fraction of the cost of owning an original.

A: Yes and no, in animation, characters can change dramatically from one frame to the next. And one frame one character will be on model and the other will be off. Or maybe one pose will look good on one character in one frame and not as good on the other. In a case like that, I'll scroll through the scene and find the "best pose" for each character to capture in a single still. So in some cases it's not a 1:1 of a single cel, but rather I'm trying to capture the mood and feel of the whole scene in which any number of cels lived.

A: When I work on the backgrounds I try to tackle them in one of two ways. Sort of trying to recreate the original brush strokes exactly, I tried to capture the feel of them instead. I have a large assortment and Photoshop brushes, textures and tricks that I acquired over the years and I apply all of them to recreating the background of a scene and an attempt to capture that hand-drawn feel. The image isn't always 'exact' but the end results should feel exactly as you remember it looking.

A: Nearly anything under the Sun but my specialty is American / western style animation recreation. Anime is not my strong suit and I don't know that I could do it justice. But if you can provide the references I'd be happy to work with you

A: Yes and no. Those are slightly different from what I'm offering here but feel free to reach out with further questions.

A: Images can be created in any size. Every image I create is done at Large scale print quality and then can then resized to whatever you're looking for. But my standard finished prints are generally at 11x17, eight and a half by 11 and 8x10. If you want it framed that's up to you to find a frame that fits. But I can provide the finish printing whatever scale you need.
Range for Prints has a base price of $200. What you're paying for is time and effort that went into it. After that, the only real difference is for the cost of printing and shipping in the size requested.

A: That's all dependent on workflow, availability and complexity of the scene. For a single print, with no interruptions generally it's about 8 hours of work a day for 2 to 3 days. Print and delivery will take longer.

A: First of all reach out and contact me. But please be able to offer and provide either a image or link to a video clip (via YouTube or whatever medium) of what you've got in mind. If it's not something I can't provide from my own extensive media library, I'll be relying on you directly to say "this is what I want".

A: after you make initial contact, please be patient for my reply. I will get to you as soon as possible. Once contact has been made we'll have a short discussion, you'll tell me what you want and along the way I may send you sketches and progress of what I'm working on. Work will only begin once payment is made depending on workflow and shipping it shouldn't take more than a week to produce.

A: each print is accompanied by a digital signature and my logo/branding to distinguish it as not the studio original. But they're meant to be non-distracting from the original art as a whole.

A: short answer no. These are not for commercial use. The individual studios that created the original cartoons are the proprietary owners and the images I create are owned by me and me alone. What your Buying is a funished gallery-quality print that you can hang on your wall. That's it.