Dictionary Definition
cleanup
Noun
1 a very large profit [syn: killing]
2 (baseball) the fourth position in the batting
order (usually filled by the best batter on the team) [syn:
cleanup
position, cleanup
spot]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- the act of cleaning something
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Clean-up is a part of the workflow in the
production of hand-drawn animation, in which "clean"
versions of the "rough" animation drawings are produced.
The first drawings are called "roughs" or "rough
animation" because they are often done in a very loose fashion. If
the animation is successfully pencil tested
and approved by the director, clean versions of the drawings have
to be done. In larger studios this task is given to the
animator's assistant, or, in a more specialised setting, to a
clean-up-artist. The artist doing the clean-ups has to have better
drawing skills than the animator, and he has to painstakingly
follow the model sheets
of the characters.
Clean-ups generally are done on a new sheet of
paper. They can be done on the same sheet as the rough animation if
this was done with a "non-copy blue" pencil. This certain tone of
blue will be invisible for photocopying machines or
grayscale scanners,
where the finished animation will be copied on cels or transferred
into a computer for further processing.
See also
See also
A naval tradition of evading leaders for a
specific period of time.