Cut Out Animation Evaluation

To make a cut out animation you first will need to make a story board and cut out your desired shapes/pics and arrange them according to your sortie, then start up iStopMotion and make sure your camera is hooked up and ready, when all that is done then you can begin by placing each picture in its place and press record then move the images but not too much to the next position and keep repeating this proses until you are finished.


The pioneers of the original cut out animation are Terry Gilliam and Lotte Reiniger. Terry Gilliam is known for his great work on the  Monty Python animations and Lotte Reiniger is known for his the Jack and the Beanstalk animation. Some examples of modern cut out animation would be: 'B.o.B - Nothing on you' which is a music videos made in the cut out style and 'South Park' which is a cartoon but started off as a cut out animation other good examples are:  Angela Anaconda,Charlie and Lola...


The positive side of cut out animation is that you can do a whole verity of things and are limited by your imagination so you can pretty much do anything and it will add a great unique effect, the negatives  about it are that its time consuming and you cant make the image come towards the viewer in a 3D way.


My animation went good and I'm happy with it because its smooth and get the story across, the thing I didn't like about it is that it took a bit of time and did get frustrating in bits also the camera was bad so the final product came out very blurry and rough so I would change that next time and also I'll try using bigger cut outs.


When I compare my work to one of Terry Gilliam or Lotte Reiniger I can see that I can pull off the basic concept but still need to try harder and have more patients in order to get it as good as theres that includes the story line.