My Reponse to Cartoon Color Company Inc.

This Screenshot from "The Making of The Pebble and The Penguin"
shows a whole lot of Cel Paint from Canada-based ChromaColor

Cartoon Color, based in Culver City, California, makes and sells Cel-Vinyl paint, which animators paint onto clear plastic sheets (cels) to give their drawings color. They've been around since 1947. I'll bet that back in the day they sold Cel-Vinyl paint by the tankful to all the Southern California animation studios. Imagine a bright yellow truck that looked like a UPS selivery truck, except instead of UPS-labeled packages, the Cartoon Colour truck delivered giant bottles of brightly colored, chalky-smelling Cel-Vinyl colors to MGM Animation, Warner Bros. Animation, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Terrytoons, UPA, Walter Lantz, Hanna-Barbera and Don Bluth. It made everyone who saw it happy to be alive.

Today, the river of rainbow-colored goop has attenuated to a trickle, thanks to computers taking over most of the steps of animation production. Thankfully, I live during a time that Cartoon Colour still exists and I'm able to dip my brush into the dwindling rivulet.

Cartoon Colour Cel-Vinyl, with the pleasing consistency of pancake-batter, is the best canvas and board paint I've ever come across. It's cheap, too. An 8-ounce plastic squeeze bottle costs about $12. Most of the colors are opaque and mix well, so you don't end up with hot, muddy colors. It goes on smooth, and you have a few seconds to wipe it off if you make a mistake. If you let it dry, you can smooth out the ripples and bad spots with fine sandpaper.

I Started Buying Cel-Vinyl colors in Squat Jars & Plastic Squeeze Bottles ever since Christmas 2008 with the help of my mother, Jackie Igafo-Te'o!  And Right Now I Have almost over 61 Cel-Vinyl Colors!! XD

One Day, Cartoon Color will be joining forces with Canada-based ChromaColor International in order have Cartoon Color sell its rights to ChromaColor and they'll keep their Californian Plant while ChromaColor makes their own paint (and Triacetate Cels)!! :)

Here's the Link to it: http://www.cartooncolour.com/