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E-mail: 		One thing special about anime cels... (Fri Dec 11 23:39:04 1998 )
Pharna

RukesRiese@aol.com 
This has NOTHING to do with prices, but unlike the US, 
Japan employs their own people for their animation. 
Living costs are high in Japan, and these people are paid well.
That's partially behind the reason that Japanese videos and stuff 
cost a more. Although I must say that the damn publishers are responsible
for most of the markup and then cels are treated as garbage that wastes
storage space.  Toei and Ghibli are the only studios I've really seen
that respects their cels like artwork.

The US has constantly been looking for cheaper and cheaper 
means to do thier animation.  In the early 80s, sending character
designs and animation directions to Toei was the most econimical
way to go.  I've seen Toei in many Rainbow Brite and My Litte Pony
credits(don't ask me why I remember that fact.)  
I was perusing through a random magazine aimed at my demographic,
something I rarely do I might add, but there was a special about 
how Daria was animated.  Artists and directors in the US still do 
the pencils, but the sketches have coded areas so that a studio
in Korea can play color-by-numbers all day for something not-even-close
to min wage.  
Strange how American TV cels, with LESS artistic merit, sell for so much.



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