Are there any Hey Arnold! animation cels out there?
Yes, but they’re not cheap, and they’re not easy to come by. There was an “official Nickelodeon animation cel studio”, Cricket Galleries in Atlanta, but they claimed never to have seen any Hey Arnold! cels, and the last time I tried to check their website, it wasn’t being maintained. Sometime during the third season, the show switched from hand-colored animation cels to computer-colored animation, which doesn’t use cels, so no fourth-season or fifth-season cels, or cels for Hey Arnold!: The Movie, exist, although it’s possible that “special” cels based on scenes from the movie could have been specially made to sell (Disney does this with some of its newer movies). Pretty much every animated show has switched to “cel-less” work, mainly because it’s a lot easier; one of the last holdouts was The Simpsons, but apparently they have switched as well, mainly because the overseas studios that do most of the “grunt work” have switched to computer coloring as well. My suggestions: first check e
