Picture animation

Cut Out Animation

This is a cut out animation piece created from a magazine mainly consisting of adverts, inspired by Terry Gilliam. Cut out animation mainly involves using card, pictures, fabrics and anything you can get your hands on that you are able to cut out and modify to your advantage in creating the ideal picture and story you want to convey. Making the pictures and to portray them is mainly used with a scanning machine and to combine them you would usually use a computer. Each image made and put together is then rearranged and fastened so the pictures flow and the story moves and makes sense. South Park is perhaps the most well-known animated TV show that uses cutout and collage animation. Also Terry Gilliam uses cut out animation with pictures and distorts them to represent more than there original meaning by cutting the heads to make them speak as well as making them move to fur fill the idea he was trying to create with the animated pictures. 

E4 CHANNEL IDENT

This is an animation I created that depicts an alien making its way to it's home planet of the moon. The story concluded in the introduction of the E4 logo which summaries some kind of purpose to the venture of the alien.  Making the animation was not as hard as I had first intended it was going to be however it was time consuming and enduring as keeping the same level of detail within the animation from the beginning to end was more of a challenge than I had first intended. Although at the end of the production I was lucky enough to need to make any adjustments to the lining of the drawing, this is because I had sketched the original drawing of the pictures before hand in pencil and then traced over them in ink to make sure there was no room for error. Using cut out animation helps to expand your imagination and making it into an animated reality, as you can bring drawings to life however long it may take it is still a great way to create a moving clip from drawings. Traditionally drawn animation was used to portray a story and include a storyboard, a sort of script that are shown through images as well as words. The idea is to link each picture with the images made and so each frame shows a something or someone moving. As creation of the drawn animation can not include sound because it is taken picture by picture this is added at the end of the production or beginning to collate with the animation. To make sure each frame is in order the main method of being able to create the sequence is to trace pictures and then when finished traced over and adjusted to give the professional look.