Cutout animation is a technique for producing animations using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper, card, stiff fabric or even photographs. The world's earliest known animated feature films were cutout animations (made in Argentina by Quirino Cristiani);as is the world's earliest surviving animated feature.

My cutout animation is made from newspapers. I chose some of the characters from the paper, cut it out with a scissor and tried to make a story. As a background me and Jordan chose an entire page of the newspaper which was a big commercial for “Rice and Veg”, it looked like a very nice cartoon from someone’s garden.

Our 3 characters where Katy Perry, Jessie J and the Meerkat from the famous commercial "market.com" .
The story is simple, Katy perry still cries after the break up with Rusell Brand and Jessie J makes fun of her and laughs in her face saying that Rusell is hers. That makes Katy cry and we show some tears made of paper.We played her own song "The one that got away" because it really suits her situation. Everything meant to be funny and this is all we could came up with.
Later the meerkat comes into the scene to calm down the "bitches" 
Later after the fight between Katy and Jessie comes out the Meerkat himself and tries to calm down both of them saying to stop the fight because they are both two "bitches", then the girls agree with that and choose to leave , letting the meerkat to be the star of the show. After the girl get out of the scene the meerkat cames in the centre and eats a cookie which looks like a 3D. When the meerkat comes in the song theme changes from Katy Perry song to the theme of Looney tunes because it's really funny and it specially for a cartoon.
The feedback was pretty good, everyone like the "cookie scene" which they called it 3D, my intention wasn't to look 3D I just thought it will be a good idea and unique.
Someone said that I should have used some voiceover, I think that was my weakness.
Also one of my animation weakness was the fact that we didn't finish it in one day , so the next day the way that the background was used in another position and you can see very easily that. 
Our strong point I think was the fact that we put that cookie in the show.
Overall the animation for the first time looks fine, and it's quite funny.

My animation, and Eadweard Muybride!

Eadweard Muybridge

(Edward James Muggeridge)

Was an English photographer(1830-1904) known for his pioneering work on “animal locomotion” which used multiple cameras to capture motion.

·      In San Francisco in 1866 rapidly he became successful in photography, focusing on landscapes and architectural subjects.

·      Muybridge claimed that he first employed this mechanism, which he called a zoopraxiscope, in the fall of 1879, at Sanford's house. A subsequent demonstration of the projector at Marey's studio in 1881 was described in Parisian news- papers.

·      Muybridge's work in the synthesis of motion was soon forgotten. He was the first to admit that his technique had been superseded, and to give credit to Edison for his perfection of the zoopraxiscope.  

·      Muybridge's work was specifically created for the purpose of stopping action. It was analytical; he strove to freeze motion, to hold still for our contemplation the most rapid muscular movements of man and beast.

·      His pioneering came in the form of using still photos to capture motion.

·      Muybridge was the man who famously proved a horse can fly. Adapting the very latest technology to his ends, he proved his theory by getting a galloping horse to trigger the shutters of a bank of cameras.

Ten facts on Edward Muggeridge:
1.

He changed his name more than his facial hair.

2.

He was acquitted for the Murder of his wife’s lover.

3.

He created two panoramas of San Francisco, one seventeen foot long.

4.

 Francis Bacon owned four copies of Humans in Motion.

5.

 Muybridge also documented a Baboon in motion.

6.

He changed his first name to conform to the Saxon spelling and a possible Spanish lineage; he became "Eadweard." 

7.

He found work as a commission merchant, initially for the London Printing and Publishing Company

8.

Muybridge was a good businessman who, in just a few years, had set himself up nicely.

9.

Muybridge was well known on the lecture circuit, not only in California, but on the East Coast and in Europe. He continued his studies of animal motion, and displayed the zoopraxiscope at the Columbian Exposition of 1893.

10.

In his last years, he returned to Kingston-on-Thames where he died on May 8, 1904. The Washington Post,concluded that Muybridge "showed the world how people and animals actually move and permanently altered our perception of time and space."