cut out animation and evaluation

Our cut out animation is a series of little motion pictures sharing a brief scene. It all comes together by the voice over in pace with the motions. The techniques used to do this was done by cutting out images from magazines and snapping a shot of each movement desired for the scene necessary, taken by the webcam. It was effective as the same thing has been done in some animation feature films and cartoons, i.e programs like Angela Anaconda and Phone Jacker. Also successful animators like Lottie Reniger and Terry Gilliams use exactly the same techniques.

The positives of this are that it can easily be done, it doesn't take much time or effort to do so and the process of this is easy. Also the puppets in the motion pictures carry out a very rich graphical treatment on the superficial texture, decoration, etching effects and shading. This is something that in most hand drawn animations fail to do, as it becomes too expensive to replicate the texture again and again after every cross drawing.

Although, the limitations of cut-out animation are that the images are flat, they work their way up and down the screen in a flat 2d plane. There is no way that you can make a cut-out animation 3 dimensional at all. The loose association of the parts tend to result in jerky movement, which will fail to deliver a clean, smooth motion picture.


Based on the feedback I have received, it seems that the viewers found it enjoyable to watch and found it humorous. Which was the intention, to make people laugh and they find it funny. The only negative aspect of out cut-out animation which I agree on was the sudden change in sketches. There was a blank black screen at the end of each scene, which was sudden and indirect.