In most ficitional depictions, vampires do NOT 
collect things. First, they live forever - if 
they constantly collected things given that kind 
of timespan, it would quickly get very hard to 
move around. (Another thing they're supposed to 
do often since otherwise, after about 30 years, 
the neighbors start to talk about that incredible 
ongoing facelift. . . ^_~)  Besides, they have 
100% perfect photograhic/audiograpgic memories 
for things and events (especially in modern 
fiction), and thus can merely gaze at the cel 
once. Then from that time on, the cel is captured 
perfectly in their mind for all time - no matter 
what happens to the original.

(/vampyres listowner mode)

So did you really want to talk about vampires or 
should we go back to cels? ^_~

I'm in the same boat with others who were very 
disappointed with the price of Disney animation. 
I hadn't really thought much about how the 
pictures got on the TV until I saw some Disney 
cels while I was at one of the parks. There was a 
spectacular two cel set (framed in the same frame 
side by side) of Maleficent. One cel of her with 
her Raven and her cloak falling all across the 
floor (yes, I've always had a thing for capes and 
cloaks) and the other was a near full body shot 
of her in her Dragon form. They were mind-
bogglingly fantastic. They were also something 
like $25,000. (I could be wrong, since - at least 
with my generation of kids - any amount of money 
over about $50 was completely incomprehensable to 
a seven year old. ^_^;;)

I've always loved animation (and still do like 
Disne animation!!). There is nothing I've seen in 
a Disney shop that I've wanted more.

When I was introduced to anime, I loved it 
exactly because it was so different from Disney, 
and - yes - often twisted. ^_^ When I ever found 
out that anime production cels were so *CHEAP*, I 
just started picking them up. I like this scene, 
and that scene, and this character, and that 
character. . . I love to have the actual picture 
that was what was put on the screen. It's. . . 
*neat*. ^_^  And the more a cel has with it, the 
neater it is - genga, backgrounds, timesheets - 
I've read a lot about the animation process but 
the ideas don't start to fully materialize in my 
head until I'm holding the actual pieces in front 
of me.

Also cels bring up things for me to ponder. Why 
do some backgrounds have registration holes in 
them and others don't? If a background doesn't 
have holes in it, how is it held in place for 
filming? Why make a background in more than one 
layer if there is never a cel placed between the 
layers? What seems to decide if two characters in 
the same frame are animated on separate cels or 
on the same cel? Etc, etc, etc. . . ^_^  I like 
to overthink things sometimes. ^_^

But anyhow. . . I guess it could be a vampyric 
trait. In legend, if you sprinkle rice on the 
ground it will protect you from vampires because 
the vampire is compelled to stop and pick it all 
up, to the very last grain. . . But they didn't 
have cels to try with back then, so. . .

("Damn! Look at this Larva laying here! And a 
Clary and a Sakura and a Kusanagi. . . Crumb it, 
when is the sun coming up again?? I can't leave 
any of them out!! They'll fade!" ^___^)

Many Sharp Smiles,
--Drac (now I REALLY have to get my vampyric butt
        to work!! ~_~)