Editing Traditional animation (section)

{{Short description|Animation technique in which frames are hand-drawn}}
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[[Image:File-Inkandpaint.jpg|thumb|Painting with [[acrylic paint]] on the reverse side of an already [[Inking (comic book production)|inked]] animation [[cel]], here placed over the original drawing]]

'''Traditional animation''' (or '''classical animation''', '''[[cel]] animation''', or '''hand-drawn animation''') is an [[animation]] technique in which each frame is [[drawing|drawn]] by hand. The technique was the dominant form of animation of the 20th century, until there was a shift to [[computer animation]] in the industry, such as [[Traditional animation#Modern process|digital ink and paint]], a modern form of traditional animation methods, and [[3D computer animation]].