What is Cut Out Animation Technique?

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What is Cut out Animation Technique?
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1. Cut Out Animation Technique
2. Characteristics of Cut Out Animation
3. Advantage of Cut Out Animation
4. Computers - Cut Out Animation

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Cut Out Animation Technique

• Cut out animation is the oldest technique used to
  create an animation film.
• Do you remember those puppet show from your
  childhood - well, that is one of the great
  examples of cut-out animation.
• Despite there are being so many advanced
  techniques but cut out animation remains a
  popular option for the entertainment industry.

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What is Cut Out Animation?

• Cut-out animation is one of the oldest and
  simplest animation techniques and has many forms
  and variations.
• It is a type of stop motion animation using
  props, flat characters and backgrounds cut from
  materials such as paper, stiff fabric, card or
  also photographs.
• Cut-out animation involves producing animations
  using 2D characters, props and scenes cut from
  materials, such as card, paper or fabric.

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• Animators divide characters into the smaller
  parts, piece together the individual cut out
  shapes and move it in small steps, taking a
  picture - with a film camera capable of making
  single images at each step of creating the
  illusion of movement.

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Characteristics of Cut Out Animation

• Animators have more difficulty in controlling the
  movement in cut-out animation than in full cel
  animation in which scenes and characters are
  drawn or painted on transparent celluloid sheets,
  so they need to plan the action accordingly.
• Cut-out animation lends itself well to decisive,
  rapid movement or frenzied, continuous action,
  which disguises some of the limitations of
  cut-out characters.
• Cut-out animation is a highly personal experience
  the animator mainly portrays a character, mood or
  idea just by moving cut-out shapes around using
  the experience to do so.

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Advantage of Cut Out Animation

• The advantage of cut out animation for a solo
  animator is that it requires fewer drawings than
  full cel animation.
• The animator makes use a single drawing cut into
  pieces to represent a movement that would
  otherwise require hundreds of cels.
• Animators can able to design the cut-out pieces
  themselves, so the range of subject matter is
  limited only by their imagination

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Computers - Cut Out Animation

• Modern animators produce animation in the cut-out
  style using computers, by replacing cut-out
  shapes physically with digitized, scanned images.
• Cut-out animation is one of the popular technique
  because it saves your production time and leads
  to smaller file sizes when compared to full cel
  animation.
• The Comedy Central animated series, "South Park,"
  was initially made using the physical paper
  cut-outs, but consequently by computer animation,
  which retained the look and feel of the original
  episodes.
• The South Park animators use high-end software
  and hardware to create an animation that looks
  cheap and improper deliberately.

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