Hmm, I found something interesting today. I
guess I never actually opened the clear plastic
wrap around my one Gawl opening cel w/ the
background before... so I opened it today and
took a peak to see what all came with it-- it
came with 3 sketches: a rough sketch (genga?),
and a douga for each of the 2 layers... Now,
when I looked more closely at the layers, I
carefully pulled them apart as much as I could
and there were 4 layers. The top one was the
white wing layer, the one underneith that was
just a blank layer to keep the white from
sticking to the other layers... the next layer
was a BLACK WING layer. =P Quite a pleasant
surprise! Heehee, I was almost thinking about
trying to win some of those auctions just to
have a black layer to go with my white one...but
heh, I'm glad that I didn't now. The 4th layer
is black at the bottom portion of the layer; I'm
not positive what its function is, but the rough
sketch listed "book" at the very same place as
this black part on the 4th layer.
Then, I was thinking some more, and wondered why
they would go to such trouble to do the pretty
air brushing techniques for the black wing layer
when it's just covered up by the white wing
layer. All of these layers were stapled to the
BG, so maybe they weren't supposed to be in that
order. I'm starting to forget some of the basic
cel terms and stuff; is the A layer on top or
beneath the B layer? The white wing layer is B
and the black is A... Then I watched the
opening sequence again (it's been a LONG time
since I've seen any of Gawl), and it looked like
the wings started out black and then faded to
white. Technically, how do they film something
like this when they only have a black and white
cel to work with? I would think that the
transition would be too noticable, one second
it's black and then the next white, so they must
do something with the film or computers to make
it fade in or out just how they want it. I
don't know if I'm explaining this well, but I
was just curious. heehee
Rekka |
