Sketches--- sketches can be anything... layout
sketches, genga, douga. Calling them all sketches
is the easiest thing to do, though of the three,
I really like my layout sketches the best. If you
get some good layout sketches, you can really get
close to the intent of the original artist, and a
lot of that talent and artistry really shines
through. The finished product (the douga) can be
very cold and empty by comparison, and can really
lack the energy of the layout/concept sketches,
but the finished product does have more precision
and care put into it. And some layout sketches
are little more than scribbles. ^_^ I tend to
only get them by accident, usually when I buy a
cel that has its original background.
Douga are the finished sketches. The pencil lines
correspond to the black lines of the cel; the
colored lines show the shifts in color (ie,
shadow/highlight).
Genga (I think!) are sort of an in-between step
between layouts and douga. There's a layout
sketch for every sequence (I think); there's a
douga for every cel; and there are multiple genga
per sequence, but not enough so that there's one
for every cel. They sort of show the progress of
the scene, and (I think!) key animators tend to
be more responsible for genga, and the other
animators tend to use them as references. But
I've always had a hard time with genga.
Settei sets are what the animators use to refer
to things like layouts (ie, the castle looks like
this from this direction, but like that from that
direction); for character design (this outfit
looks like this); for accessories (weapons,
jewelry, etc); and so on, so that everyone is
standardized. Sometimes there are even manga
scans included in settei packets, and they've
been written on with animators' notes. :o) Settei
sets are usually more of a "grab bag" than
anything standardized. You might have multiple
pages of one page, and one might be a clean,
crisp copy, and the other might be an nth
generation copy. Or you might have all the
characters, except for one popular one, because
the person you sold it to liked it enough to keep
it in reserve for themselves when they put the
rest of the packet up for sale. Occasionally,
settei gets published in books (for example, I
have a Konjiki no Gash Bell settei book), but it
generally gets sold in packets that the animators
had disposed of in one way or another, and they
made their way to the general public.
The settei I have at the bottom are from a game,
but they look the same whether they're from a
show or a game. I happen to like settei very
much, even though it's photocopied. It's a fun
extra peek into the animation process. :o) |