How did animation studios make ghost characters transparent before computers?

It might be a backlight on a multiplane camera maybe.

god 2D animation is impressive shit

it pains me how many things don't get good HD remasters

Big zoinks if true

Animation was considered cheap and disposable back then so a lot of the original prints don't exist anymore.

Underrated animation, The shivering in a unique way conveys the weight of the objects he's holding.

>that guy who bought a puzzle at a goodwill store and found a bunch of original Disney cells in the box
Just imagine what's out there, rotting in some attic because an animator took it home and the family doesn't give a shit.

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I actually know this one, they used double exposure. They exposed the film to the scene once without the ghost cel and then agsn with it. It's actually the same way people faked ghost photos back in the day too.

>2d animation
I can do that in flash still user. I can still do frame by frame too.

Pinocchio is a damn fine piece of animation. Glad that it was the thing that kicked off the video release train for Disney films.

There's something iconic about those ghosts and I can't put my finger on as to why. They've been stuck in my head since Mickey Mania for the Genesis.

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>faked ghost photos back in the day too.
>back in the day
Pretty sure there's still people doing it today, because it's harder to disprove than photoshop edits.

Probably, just like with most things you can cooler results with practical effects. Flashlight Fact: Tesla used double exposure to fake this picture too

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Actually, the complete opposite. The digital era is making it nearly impossible to technically determine fake and legit images. "Analog" pictures when analyzed by computers will show the slightest flaw and out the fakes. I read somewhere that images of sasquatch, ufos, and ghosts using digital cameras would not be considered evidence due to the difficulty to disprove (even if the image looks wildly fake or real).

reminder the glitter in jessica rabbit dress is not SFX that was all animated

Neat, thanks user!

Traditional animation like this uses multiple layers - the backgrounds, characters, moving or manipulated objects in the frame, etc are all different physical cels that are overlaid and photographed for each frame of the animation.

Ghosts are done using translucent instead of opaque paints.

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It's the double exposure thing, I looked up where I originally learned about it in the Lonesome Ghosts. Here's an excerpt from a book called Walt's People where they talk about how they did it and the fire in Bambi

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Disney has done a pretty good job at keeping their original negatives but the remasters they release are shoddy and remove detail because of their disdain for film grain.

If you're talking about animation cels, a lot of them got washed off for reuse and are thus completely lost, but they might have kept some of the nice poses in their vault. It's only in later years they started selling them instead, they had them for sale until The Little Mermaid.