>Anyway, character designers' autographs (signatures)
>aren't the most valuable, their sketches are the most
>valuable. If you somehow can get them drawing
>sketches for you, don't draw them on cels, ask them to draw
>on the signboards or a good quality of paper instead. The
>values of drawing on cels and sketches are very different.
>If you only go for autographs and sign on the cels, I
>will have to say the creators of the series and seiyuu are
>the most valuable. The creators are sometimes the producers
>of the series.
Not entirely true. Usually the character designer or the
animator director (and sometimes director depending on
how much work he actually put in in the animation itself)
would be the most valuable. The character designer is the
guy that creates the characters themselves and obviously
has the most control over them. As for the seiyuu, yeah
the autographs are nice but most often over time their
sigs are not worth nearly as much as the former.
Take for example: you have a sleeping beauty cel of Briar
Rose who would you want it signed by? Marc Davis, the man
that created the character or the voice actres whose name
most people couldn't even think of, or the director whose
name eludes me at the moment. Any serious collector would
want Davis' signature on there. To put it in terms that
Anime fans would probably understand: You have a deedlit
cel, would you rather have Yuki's signature on there, the
seiyuu or the directors? Of course you could make the
counter that you have a Ranma-chan cel and you could get
Megumi's signature or Takahashi. Both would be great and
depending on what kind of fan you are you (artwork or seiyuu)
the choice would be clear to you. |
