The process of cut out animation is to first, locate a magazine or a newspaper and then cut out the images you'd like to use in your animation. Then you'd need to create a storyboard to have a clear view of what your animation is going to look like and so that you wouldn't forget anything. After that you are free to start organizing your images and taking pictures of them to create a fluid animation. The program we used for this project was iStopMotion, it's a very helpful tool and it's a great benefit to those who enjoy making stop motion videos.
The famous pioneers of stop motion editing are Terry Gilliam and Lotte Reiniger. Terry Gilliam was one of the main animators/directors for Monty Python which was extremely popular back in the day.
Lotte Reiniger was one of the first people to start stop motion animation. Her most known work is 'Jack and the Beanstalk' which featured amazingly fluid animation.
The positive thing about stop motion animation is that you don't have to be good at drawing to do it, practically anyone could pick up a pair of scissors, cut out some images and animate them. But it takes patience and care to make your animation look great. The negative thing about stop motion animation is that it's a very tedious process, it takes a long time to make your animation look good, you gotta move your images bit by bit and take pictures in-between, it requires a lot of patience just to not quit in the middle.
Overall, I think our animation turned out great, as it managed to rack up a whopping 48,000 views on a particular website named 'Funnyjunk' and then an additional 800 on Youtube. Judging by the comments most people seemed to enjoy it. The whole process of creating an animation was really fun since everyone was coming up with funny ideas which made our animation turn out as good as it has.
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