The Multiplane Camera

The multiplane camera has been invented by Bill Garity, an engineer of the Disney studio in 1933. This system was created to give an effect of depth to the cartoon.



This camera is composed by cellulos who is transparent plastic sheets of acetate of cellulose on which painted with the hand, the different element of the cartoon. Thanks to the transparency of these sheets, we can superimpose several cellulos and create complex scenes without all drawing all the time. This cellulos are placed at different height on a bench under, who him is constituted of one or two columns to make a travelling toward a table where are fixed the drawing.

The cellulo corresponding to the décor is placed behind those corresponding to the different character and mobile element at the plan. So when an element moves, we don’t have to drawing all images intact, but only the element changing. We win times in the production of films and the fixed elements do not feels the vibration which appeared if we redrawing each images.



From 1941, Ub Ymerks increased this system

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