Cut Out Animation

Cutout animation is another way of producing animations using flat characters. Cut out animation can simply be done by cutting out magazine or newspaper images and creating an animation. A lot of animators use cut out animation technique in their work like Trey Parker the directors of South park uses computer animation to imitate cut out animation.

Cut out animation does have its advantages and disadvantages. The advantages about doing a cut out animation video, you can be creative and also make the impossible things what cannot be done when making a ordinary movies. For example in cut out animation you can involve a lot of random images which creates a storyline. Although these are the advantages there also disadvantages as well, doing this is time consuming.

This cut out animation video below is what I have done with my classmate. We used magazine and newspaper images to create a little storyline with it. In this cut out aniamtion we also tried to make it 3D by making everything com out of a box. We used i-stop motion pro 7 to capture the image and make it look as professional as possible.