Cut out animation

Today I started working to create my own cut out animation. I looked through various of magazines to find out images which would look best in my animation and cut them out and put them together.

Cut out animation

South Park


The style of the animation used in South Park is inspired by the paper cut-out cartoons created by Terry Gilliam in his series 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' of which the creators of South Park were huge fans of. Construction paper and traditional stop motion cutout animation techniques were used in the original animated shorts and in the pilot episode. Episodes after this started to get produced by computer animation. Before computer artists began animation a series of storyboards were created.

The various stages of production (from top to bottom): the storyboard sketch, the CorelDRAW props with stock character models, and a frame from the fully rendered episode in Toon Boom are provided by the show's storyboard artists.^[45][72]

Cut out animation

Cutout animation is a technique used for producing animations using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper, card, stiff fabric and even photographs. 

Stop Motion Cat

Using clay I created a clay model of a cat so i can create a stop motion video.