Cut Out Animation

Cut Out Animation

My cut out animation is made up of many images that were cut out from magazines and newspapers.

First I found a metro newspaper and magazines such as OK and Maplin and many others. I got an iMac computer and a Logitech webcam so that I can do the project using iStopmotion and what this software does is capture frames to create a smooth motion. After I finished using iStopmotion, I decided to edit my project using Final Cut Pro and after I was finished editing, I rendered it, then I uploaded to YouTube.

Three examples of famous cut out animations are Terry Gilliam's The Miracle of Flight, Angela Anaconda and Blues Clues.

Created by Terry Gilliam

Created by Sue Rose and Joanna Ferrone

Created by Traci Paige Johnson,Todd.A Kessler and Angela Santomero

Terry Gilliam's animations are very comedic but in a childish way because he uses inappropriate body parts to make people laugh.


Terry Gilliam uses the foot squash, moving limbs. Disconnected jaw are all trademarks of Terry Gilliam and he uses these techniques as a transition to move to the next scene or to introduce a new part of a segment.

In my animation a lady walks into the screen then a man follows, the man proposed to the lady but he later on finds her unattractive so on the screen the lady's head changes to man’s head. Then a person that also likes the lady comes in the screen then the lady slaps the man out the screen because the lady does not like the guy and then the animation ends.


The three strengths that my animation have is that it has music that is synced to the action and this is the first strength. The second strength that my animation has is that it has character that has moving limbs. The third strength that my animation has is that it has a character that has a detachable jaw and when the jaw is moving the character is speaking.

The thing that I would do differently next time is as soon after I finish my cut outs I will make sure that I go straight to editing and not go to find sound effects first because throughout the project I changed my mind a lot and I kept adding things in last minutes and this can lead to a decrease in the quality of my cut out animation.
The next time that I do a cut out animation I will make sure that I will add in dialogue and this will improve my cut out animation because it will be more engaging to my audience. The next thing that I can do to improve my animation is that I can add in more frames to make my animation smoother and this will improve my animation because it would look more slick and professional. The last thing I could do to improve my animation is to add in a music bed and this will be better to add in rather to just listen to silence in the background