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Traditional silhouette animation as invented by Reiniger is subdivision of cutout animation (itself one of the many forms of stop motion).It utilizes figures cut out of paperboard, sometimes reinforced with thin metal sheets, and tied together at their joints with thread or wire (usually substituted by plastic or metal paper fasteners in contemporary productions) which are then moved frame-by ...
Barrier-grid animation or picket-fence animation is an animation effect created by moving a striped transparent overlay across an interlaced image. The barrier-grid technique originated in the late 1890s, overlapping with the development of parallax stereography ( Relièphographie ) for 3D autostereograms .
Some films, including Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed, also have much of their silhouette style in common with shadow plays. Cutout animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger studied the traditions of shadow play and created several shadow play film sequences, including a tribute to François Dominique Séraphin in Jean Renoir's film La Marseillaise ...
The Clown and His Donkey is a 1910 animated short film featuring silhouette animation.It was written, directed, and produced by the British animator Charles Armstrong. [1] It was his third known silhouette animated film, following The Sporting Mice (1909) and Votes for Women: A Caricature (1909).
Sanjay's Super Team a 2015 animated short film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. Written and directed by Sanjay Patel , and based on his childhood, it premiered on June 15, 2015 at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France, [ 8 ] and accompanied the theatrical release of Pixar's The Good Dinosaur on November 25, 2015.
Lotte Reiniger was born in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin on 2 June 1899 to Carl Reiniger and Eleonore Lina Wilhelmine Rakette. [4] Here, she studied at Charlottenburger Waldschule, the first open-air school, where she learned the art of scherenschnitte, the German art of silhouette, inspired by the ancient Chinese art of paper cutting and silhouette puppetry. [5]
Pivot Animator (formerly Pivot Stickfigure Animator and usually shortened to Pivot) is a freeware application that allows users to create stick-figure and sprite animations, and save them in the animated GIF format for use on web pages and the AVI format (in Pivot Animator 3 and later).
Claire Parker (August 31, 1906 – October 3, 1981) was an American engineer and animator. A graduate of MIT, she invented the Pinscreen, a vertically-mounted grid of between 240,000 and 1 million sliding metal rods that are first manually pushed into position to create lit and shaded areas, then filmed frame by frame. [1]