cel
noun/sɛl/
Etymology Clipping of celluloid.
1
A piece of celluloid on which has been drawn a frame of an animated film.
- After Jobs’s $5 million offer was rejected, the team attempted to do a deal with Disney, then a bastion of hand-painted cel animation.2008 June 22, Michael Hirschorn, “Success Story 2”, in New York Times:
- Derived terms
- cel-shaded, cel shading