Tuesday 20 March 2012





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.

3 comments:

  1. Funny, Creative and so cool!
    I love it you've even given it a 3d affect by adding that jaffacake hehe :D
    well done, theres nothing I disliked about it

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  2. i enjoyed watching this video its really creative well done keep it up :)

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  3. I find this Animation creative , and interesting to watch , you should of done a voiceover tho

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