Cutout animation
Cutout animation is a form of animation using paper or other cutouts forming the shape of characters that are then animated in a top down fashion.
A very popular show that uses this style of animation is south park.
South Park was originally intended for just a christmas card, but became an animation in 1992 and was created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. It started with an animated shot titled "The Spirit of Christmas".
The animation was made using construction paper cutouts with stop motion, and features prototypes of the south park characters.
Another popular cutout animation show is Blues Clues, this one is targeted at young children, rather than the more adult South Park.
Blues clues is children's show that premiered on September 8th 1996, on the channel Nickelodeon and ran for ten years until August 6 2006.
The producers were Angela Santomero, Todd Kessler and Traci Paige Johnson combined concepts learned from childhood development and early childhood education research, and modern animation techniques to create Blues Clues.
Blues Clues was the first cutout animation series for preschoolers and resembled a story book with its use of primary colours and construction paper shapes of familiar objects with varied colours and textures. Its home setting was familiar to children but was unlike any other children's show out at the time.
The next cutout animation is another childrens show called Crystal Tipps and Alistair, this was a UK animation produced by the BBC featuring two characters, one called Crystal Tipps, a young girl, and her dog, Alistair, as well as her friends Birdie and Butterfly.It was a 5 minute 50 episode series with a 20 minute christmas special, first shown between 1971 and 1974.
It was created by Hilary Hayton and Graham McCallum. Michael Grafton-Robinson, a BBC producer went independent setting up Q3 of London to produce the series.
The series had no dialog but was accompanied by a musical backing track composed by Paul Reade.
Here is a episode from the show:
Blues clues is children's show that premiered on September 8th 1996, on the channel Nickelodeon and ran for ten years until August 6 2006.
The producers were Angela Santomero, Todd Kessler and Traci Paige Johnson combined concepts learned from childhood development and early childhood education research, and modern animation techniques to create Blues Clues.
Blues Clues was the first cutout animation series for preschoolers and resembled a story book with its use of primary colours and construction paper shapes of familiar objects with varied colours and textures. Its home setting was familiar to children but was unlike any other children's show out at the time.
It was created by Hilary Hayton and Graham McCallum. Michael Grafton-Robinson, a BBC producer went independent setting up Q3 of London to produce the series.
The series had no dialog but was accompanied by a musical backing track composed by Paul Reade.
Here is a episode from the show:
