Cut out 2

Today we have printed out 4 copies of the finished teletubby and the background, we are currently in the state of cutting everything out ready for animating. I think the project is going well so far, although the thinking process took much longer than it was supposed to as no one could agree on what we should do.

Our cut out idea

We are thinking about having a teletubby body with one of our faces in it and have them dance.

We are going to put a teletubby in photoshop and edit a face onto it, then we will cut out all the parts we will want to be able to move freely.

When recording the stop motion we will simply be using our iStopmotion and stop motion flexible cameras to record. We will be using the table to rest the images on as we do not have anything else that would be suitable.

Although our cut out is not completely finished this is the teletubby we will be using so far:



We will be using this as a background for our cut out animation:

Cut out animation

How it works

Cut out animation is made by lots of different pieces of different materials e.g. paper or card. Then you use these different pieces of material and slowly move them around just like you do with clay animation. The smaller the movements the smoother the result will look. The earliest version of cut out animation is The adventures of prince Achmed which was made in 1926, but this took about 3 years to make.

There as been many different cut out animations over the years but one animation that started off as cut out animation is still running now but has been changed into computer animation, this means that when it was cut out it could take up to 70days for one episode but now it can be done in less than one day. Southpark is one of those programs that can only take a day to make, you can see how technology as helped improve cut out animation because although the overall finish isn't as smooth as cell, that is the desired effect.

My first creation

Unicorn + Dinosaur = My Unisaur    

This is my first animation using a model and not a human, it is only a few seconds long and is about a Unisaur walking to a puddle to get a drink, the water comes to life and rolls away and then the unisaur walks off the edge of a cliff. 

Towards the end you can see my fingers and arm, but that was because it needed support to fall.