![]() The Walt Disney Ink & Paint Department formulated their own gum arabic-based paints between 19. Characters are reproduced onto the sheet from drawings created by animators. Typically, inks are applied to the viewing side (front) and paints are applied to the back (reverse) of the sheet ( Figures 1 and 2). The method developed is effective for cel paints with the same or similar formulations.Īn animation cel is a transparent plastic sheet of cellulose nitrate, cellulose diacetate, cellulose triacetate, or polyester on which characters or objects are inked and/or painted by hand. Method development and a case study procedure are presented in depth. A major advantage of this method is that a consolidant is not necessary. The new treatment is a multi-step approach that manipulates paint properties by using precise levels of relative humidity, established within a humidity chamber, in order to reactivate the paint and reattach it. This paper presents recent innovations in paint reattachment that rely on the intrinsic hygroscopic properties of the cel paint formulations. ![]() One important component of this study has involved developing minimally invasive treatments for reattaching delaminating paints, which involved studying paint condition, characteristics, and properties. Being reverse painted, paint consolidation of animation cels adds another layer of complexity to established approaches to paint consolidation. In practice, flaking paint of animation cels is often removed and repainted rather than consolidated. Common damage observed on aged cels is cracking, loss of adhesion, dislocations, and losses of the paint. ![]() Animation cels are transparent plastic sheets inked on the front and painted on the reverse. I could see some users wondering what the heck that triangle was, which is the point of our Guide to Special Characters.A collaborative research project between the Getty Conservation Institute and the Walt Disney Animation Research Library investigated storage and conservation treatment strategies for animation cels. You control the visibility of the triangle by changing the visibility of the frame itself, via View > Show/Hide Frame Edges.Ī trivial distinction. To wit if you choose Hide Hidden Characters, the non-printing triangle indicating a split footnote remains visible. It’s more of a frame property, like how the In and Out Ports on a text frame change to indicate if the frame is part of a thread or if there’s overset text. Technically, though, it’s not a “special character”?the kind that can be viewed/hidden by choosing Show/Hide Hidden Characters from the Type menu. Why, of course! I’ve updated the PDF you can download the latest version here. Tim wondered if the triangle could be considered a candidate for our popular Guide to Special Characters in InDesign. Use our Search field to find our many other posts about using footnotes in InDesign.) (This post isn’t really about footnotes, just that triangle thingie. Second, a footnote of two or more lines can’t completely fit under the line of body text containing the footnote reference. First, the Allow Split Footnotes checkbox in the Type > Document Footnote Options dialog box (in the Layout tab) has to be enabled (it is by default). Here’s a zoomed-out view so you can see the footnote text that’s being split:įootnotes will split (that is, continue) to additional columns and frames if two conditions are met. The blue triangle indicates a split footnote. Alert InDesign user Tim Gouder e-mailed us about an obscure special character he had encountered in InDesign:
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