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Marten Toonder Studio's - from "If you understand what I mean" - Joost - original film cell + pencil / line drawing - (1982). Note: in the cell animation technique, the maker draws the moving parts of the animation on transparent sheets, or “cells”. It takes 24 cells for one second of animation. The advantage is that fewer drawings are required, because the cells can be reused for the same movements. Cell animation was invented in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century. Thanks to Walt Disney, cartoons became a market product that had to be made quickly. To save time, this technique was devised, whereby moving parts and non-moving parts of the drawing are separated from each other. The animation is first drawn with pencil (line drawing) and then transferred to a clear transparent sheet (cell). Due to the transparency, several layers can be placed on top of each other. On December 1, 2010, the cultural legacy of Marten Toonder (all the work that Marten Toonder made himself) was officially transferred by his heirs to the Literature Museum in Leiden and has since then been owned by the Dutch government. In November 2018, the archive of Marten Toonder Studios was donated to the Literature Museum in The Hague and the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam.
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