ANIMATION DRAWING:  Any moving object or character drawn with pencil on animation paper. Usually rendered in black pencil, with some having color highlights of red, green, yellow, blue, etc.

LAYOUT DRAWING:  A drawing done by studio artists of the background on which the character will move across. Usually done in stages from a rough beginning sketches to the final background layout drawing. The final background layout is then used as the template for creating the final watercolor background.

CONCEPT PAINTINGS:  Paintings done by studio artist during the initial stages of creating the characters and atmosphere of the film. Usually rendered in watercolor, however, some have been done in oil as well as pastels.

CEL:  A sheet of thin clear celluloid or acetate/nitrate (plastic) which any moving character or object is painted on. Using, in most cases, an opaque watercolor called gouache.

BACKGROUND:  A sheet of heavy paper or artist board that normally any non moving objects are placed. Usually a still life painting, done by the studio, of a landscape or an indoor scene upon which a cel or group of cels are placed over. Mainly done using watercolors and on rare occasion oil paints.

CEL AND BACKGROUND SETUP:  Normally a production cel, or set of cels, applied over a production background, however, can also be made up of preliminary or publicity cels and backgrounds. If both the cel and background are from the exact same scene/frame they are called a MATCHING or KEY SETUP.

COURVOISIER SETUP:  A setup that was created at Disney for sale thought Courvoisier Galleries of San Francisco. These setups were produced from 1936-1947. They consist of a cel, or set of cels (usually trimmed), placed over either a hand-painted/airbrushed Disney presentation background or, in rare occasions, an actual production background used in making the film.