Backgrounds
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Backgrounds - The background artist for an animated film paints a background scene over which the characters will move. Taking a design created by a layout artist, he works with the director and animators to select a color scheme that will work best. Cels were then laid over the background, and photographed one at a time, with the same background often used for a number of cels. Today, backgrounds are scanned into a computer for combining with the characters.