Terminology

If I'm going to venture a guess, and approach it generally, I would say what you seem to be referring to is the "clean-up" drawing, though whether it's done over the original drawing, on a separate sheet above the original drawing, or inked in could be a depends.

And any model sheets I've seen typically provide rotations of the character -- frontal, profile, 3/4, doing the other side if necessary to provide detail if the character isn't more or less symmetrical. Then there are broken down drawings of isolated parts like the hands, certain mouth shapes, a few conventional positions, and then examples illustrations of the character in various performance poses. That's what I gather from books, and they never show a stack, but it sounds like between 1 and 5-ish...I think the number's less important than what you need to get by and keep consistent and aware of all the necessary information, when you're concerned with your own individual production.

Here are a few terms folks miss from time to time:

Yes, in the U.S - it is "cel" in Europe it is "cell"

"Animation" is both singular and plural ("animations" refers to work done for the web. No self respecting animator uses "animations")

Animatic is a term used by Ad agencies when a storyboard is shot with certain scenes enhanced or animated.

When a storyboard is shot to check the timing or progress of the film - the term is called a"progression reel" or "Leica (pronounced "like-a") reel".

and finally...

A film is broken down into SEQUENCES which are boken down into SCENES.

Thanks.

just a thanks to everyone thats helped me so far, i did look through those directories but i just kept getting lost.

based on your description, the first drawing in question is probably a cleanup, although they're usually not inked - just a nice, clean pencil line

The rotated drawings of a character is called a turnaround. As to how many drawings there are in a set of model sheets for a character, the easiest answer is "as many as it takes". ;)

If I'm going to venture a guess, and approach it generally, I would say what you seem to be referring to is the "clean-up" drawing, though whether it's done over the original drawing, on a separate sheet above the original drawing, or inked in could be a depends.

And any model sheets I've seen typically provide rotations of the character -- frontal, profile, 3/4, doing the other side if necessary to provide detail if

I think the questions are too vague, but you could be right about what the question is about.