Limited-Edition Sericels are created through a very precise fine art screen-printing process known as serigraphy. An artist cuts a stencil for every color in the image. A sericel may contain as many as 35 different colors, each individually screen-printed onto an acetate cel. Their edition sizes typically run from 2,500 to 5,000. They may or may not be matched with a lithograph background.

Hand-Painted Limited Editions Cels are either hand-inked or the lines are xerographically applied all done by the original Disney Ink & Paint Department on the Disney Studio Lot in California. A pencil outline of the characters is carefully inked onto the acetate cel or transferred by a six-step xerographic process. Hand-mixed colors are matched to the original artwork and hand-painted onto the cel. The cel is then placed on a lithographic reproduction of the original animation background. These specially-created masterpieces typically have edition sizes of 500 or less.

Giclée - pronounced 'jee . clay', is the newest fine art printing process to be developed which uses a digital scan of the original artwork (or, in some cases, the original digital animation file itself) as the source. Artists then skillfully perfect the colors to best capture the color saturation, lighting, and brushstrokes of the original. The digitally re-created artwork is then printed onto museum-quality, acid-free paper or canvas with an enhanced printer, specially modified for fine-art reproduction. Many artists favor this process because it can so closely match the look of the original (in some cases, printers even add a textured coating to the final print to make it look exactly like the original painting).

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