A frame-by-frame studio for hand-drawn animation
Cel is the production CMS for animation studios that still believe in pencil, paper, and the patient labor of one drawing after another. Manage scenes, cels, and layouts — and publish them so the world sees the craft, not just the trailer.
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Everything you need to ship
One platform, every primitive. Replace a half-dozen tools and ship in an afternoon.
Scene Boards
Organize a production into sequences, scenes, and cuts. Every key drawing, in-between, and background is linked to the exact frame it serves.
Cel Stacks
View layered cels — background, character, effects — as a stack you can toggle on and off. Built for hand-drawn productions, not vector tween editors.
Layout Library
Archive pencil layouts, color scripts, and concept art with full metadata: artist, date, and the cut each piece serves. Become your own studio archive.
Pencil-Test Player
Upload pencil tests and rough animation at native frame rate. Studio members can leave per-frame notes that survive into the final cut.
Production Calendar
Track each scene through layout, key, in-between, clean-up, ink, paint, and check. See where the bottlenecks are before they slip the schedule.
Public Production Diary
Publish a curated portion of the studio archive as a living production diary. Readers see the craft as the film is being made, not after.
Unified dashboard for everything you ship
Get a complete view of your business with real-time reporting, automated reconciliation, and actionable insights — all in one place.
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Built for developers, loved by teams
Our APIs are designed for simplicity. Start integrating with just a few lines of code and scale to millions of users.
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Active businesses
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Uptime SLA
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Countries supported
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Developer rating
Teams that ship faster, choose us
“The API documentation is the best I've ever worked with. We integrated in under a day and haven't looked back since.”
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CTO, TechFlow
“Moving to this platform reduced our failures by 40% and saved our team hundreds of hours in reconciliation work.”
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Head of Engineering, Bloom
“What impressed me most was the global coverage. We expanded to 30 new markets in a single quarter — something that would have taken us years otherwise.”
Aisha Patel
Founder, NexaPay
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In-Betweener
For solo animators and tiny crews publishing their first short and learning the production pipeline.
Studio
Working animation studios on episodic or short-form productions with a regular release cadence.
Feature
Feature-length productions and multi-studio collaborations managing thousands of cels and dozens of artists.
Questions, answered
Your studio and its credited artists do, in full. Cel is a production and publishing tool — we never license, train on, or repurpose your animation work without written consent.
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