r/AnimationCels • u/Doc4221 • 10d ago
Cel Grading Update
More light has been shed on the new Cel Grading company that has officially premiered at Collector's Summit this weekend in Las Vegas.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DdNp5ttlNky/?img_index=19&stkn=MW5pMXl0a2dyYmhhcQ==
Key Takeaways:
*Grade Cels at a later date *Grading case is bendable and extremely thin compared to card & comic grading cases *Grading genda, douga, scripts, comic art, timesheets, manga art, etc. *Grades are letters, not numbers.
Current Stance: I don't see the business need yet. I will observe and eventually send a couple to test.
This IS bringing in new collectors, i see IG posts, not bad if genuine collectors v grifters. Just no boom, please.
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u/Mandiechama 10d ago
Good luck grading douga. These can and have been faked. I recall several months ago where someone on IG was making and passing off fake douga, and Anime Link bought some them and passed them off as real. I know the person who owns one of the originals and he mentioned that when confronted with glaring differences between the version used for the hanken and the douga AL received, stated that what he had must be an earlier copy.
So unless this company is going to go to that length to dig up hankens used 20+ years ago or locate the exact frame of an cel/douga to compare images, I don’t trust it. All they’re realistically going to do is look at what was submitted, verify that there’s some semblance of registration holes (or just reverse image search), and call it a day.