Why is there all of this extra blank acetate on my oversized/pan cel?
There are several reasons why an oversized cel may be cut with what seems to be a ‘waste of acetate.’ One likely reason is that during the sequence, the whole size is used. This might mean that there is another layer with another character that overlays in the blank portion and the cels are just cut uniformly to that size. It might mean that the character moves along the blank portion (in an oversized cel, the camera may not be moving/zooming at all times, or it could be part of the effect). It could be that in that portion of the sequence, the camera is zoomed in so that the rest of the image doesn’t need to be there. Also, the cel might just be that size because there was miscommunication in how to cut it or there happened to be already cut sheets that size handy.
