As someone mentioned above, it is best to mention
that a cel has been restored. In reality, one
should always mention to a perspective buyer if
the cel has had any restoration done to it. To
not tell the buyer would be flat out dishonest.
Like any other services, there are better
restorers and so so ones. If you had SR labs
restore your cel for instance, people will expect
that is was done 100% correctly and only the best
care was given to the piece.
Some series people expect the cels to be restored
from. Some series are notorious for not being
handled well or the majority of them just
discarded (though this typically is true mostly
of old American cels, some of the older Japanese
studios practiced this as well).
One important piece also, good cel restorers are
real professionals. Many worked in the animation
studios and so on. If there was a complete layer
missing from the setup, and you (as the customer)
wanted that added back into your cel setup (for
framing or what not) the final product would be
far from a fan cel. An animator/artist would be
the one to make the missing layer, someone who at
the least would have held that job in the studio
at some point in his career. |