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Not to be downloaded and reposted elsewhere online.
These were made for the animators for reference, to make consistant animation cels of the
characters as far as faces, hairstyles, makeup, facial expressions, fashions, buildings,
vehicles, instruments and more. Will Meugniot designed atleast some of them, and
Barb Raush and Romeo Tanghal inked them and perhaps designed some aswell.
All of the model cels were numbered with the episode they
first appeared in 5205-01 until 5205-66. 5205 means it's part of Jem, and the number after
the hyphen tells
us what episode it was designed for. Most of the cels featuring fashions, also had another
specific number, for example "JR-16" means "Jerrica" and fashion number 16. Some were marked
with "Song #" and a number, which was meant it was part of a music video, or "Sc." and a number,
which referred to specific scene.
Shorts:
However, before
the first five episodes were re-animated with some new scenes, they had the numbers
4041 until 4045. And the practice of giving each model cel a
unique number had not necessarily began when the first five episodes were made, so those
fashions that later re-appeared in the series, didn't get a unique number until then,
and some were even re-designed after that.
Something funny I noticed is that sometimes they would use a previous model design and just
redraw another fashion on the same body. And as for the animators, they sometimes used the actual
model cel in the animation, because everything about the character and outfit is in the exact
same position, like in scenes where Synergy creates a hologram of a new outfit over them.
If you have any model cels that aren't pictured here, you're more than welcome to share a
picture by mail! Even if you don't want it displayed online, I'd very much like to see it.
As you can probably tell, Kimber is by far the most common character to find model cels from. Then comes probably the Misfits (except for Jetta).
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