CUTOUT ANIMATION CUTOUT ANIMATION Cutout animation puppets can

CUTOUT ANIMATION

CUTOUT ANIMATION • Cutout animation puppets can be created out of about anything • Puppet composed of several independent parts, (i. e. head, neck, chest, upper arm lower arm hand etc. ) held together through some kind of jointing system • The parts are moved slightly each frame, no need to drawn anything, simply pose the character or object for each frame • Makes for more efficient animations • Cutouts are best for broad actions that are not dependent on fine details: A large arm wave instead of a wave consisting of the fingers moving. • Simple concrete story elements • Figures themselves are nor changed or deformed

CUTOUT CONSTRUCTION • Example 1 • Example 2 • Paper is a common choice but you could use other materials such as felt, cardboard, a sturdy but flat material is best, paint can be applied to surface to create textures • Jointing: Cutout usually utilize some kind of Jointing: Could be tape and thread, metal fasteners at joint, or simply lay objects on top of one another and gravity will hold it together • Overlays: Separate parts that lay over another part and can be replaced for example: various mouth shapes or eye shapes could be used to give expressions

CUTOUT ANIMATORS • Emile Cohl • • Terry Gilliam • Famous for Monty Python animations • Created unique style often imitated Evelyn Lambart • Worked with Norman Mc. Laren at National Film Board of Canada • Created multiple cutout animated films Sheldon Coen • • • Influential animator, created early cutout films Look for overlay usage Yuri Norshteyn • Award winning Russian Animator • Still uses cutout animation today • Quoted as saying he refuses to work with computers and computeranimated films “makes him ill” Jib Jab Studios • Famous for political satire cartoons in cutout style

CUTOUT SCREENINGS • En Route, Emile Cohl first paper cutout animation 1910 • Claire de Lune Espagnol, Emile Cohl, 1912 • • Monty Python’s Flying Circus opening, Terry Gilliam, 1969 • • • story-telling with cutout moving pieces, overlays, backgrounds The Sweater, Sheldon Cohen, 1980 • • Good demonstration of different forms of cutout and overlays (replacement mouths, overlays, cutout parts) The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, Evelyn Lambart, 1980 • • cutout pieces of the moon Look for where cutout animation (overlays) are used Hedgehog in the fog, Yuriy Norshteyn, 1975 • Award winning Russian animator • Still using cutout animation today • Quoted as saying he refuses to work with computers and computeranimated films “makes him ill” Other examples today • Early South Park (early episodes) New episodes created with Autodesk Maya made to look like cutout style • Jib Jab Studios: Political Satire, Geo. W. Bush