Cut out animation

Cut out animation 
Within the stop motion animation sector cut out animation is a style of animation that is made by projecting a flat character cut out from different materials varying from paper card to stiff fabrics or potentially sometimes even photographs. Cut out animation is one of the oldest forms of animation and is also one of the simplest to produce.  The most prominent examples of cut out animation used in the mainstream industry would be south Park whom use a sole drawing that is then cut into pieces that can represent actual movements. The cut out pieces are really simple to create and the animators would be able to create them by themselves pretty simple a perfect example of a person whom created her own cut outs is Lotte Reiniger. Lotte rose to prominence in 1918 with her animation skit using animated wooden rats and had a succesfull career spanning till 1979 becoming an iconic figure for the animation scene leaving behind a legacy.