For those who haven't seen it, this is master animator Norstein's incomplete magnum opus. Made with layers and layers of cut-out pieces of paper.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/faceofrussia/ti ... coat1.html
http://www.pbs.org/weta/faceofrussia/ti ... coat2.html
Yuri Norstein's "The Overcoat"
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- Barry Baker
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No need to patronise cut-outs. There is nothing second-class about what Norstein has achieved with cut-out animation. His great masterpiece, "Tale of Tales" is regularly voted by other animators as one of the top ten animated films ever made, and it is a beautiful and melancholic film that has haunted me ever since I first saw it as an art student.
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It's ok, I didn't mean to sound aggressive, I just thought that to add the qualification "for cutout animation..." was unnecessary. I know what you mean about 99% of cutouts, and it's not a technique I have done much with either, but the few true masters of the form - Lotte Reiniger was another - have long ago convinced me of its potential, to the extent that their work, especially Norstein, stands alongside that of the fully drawn and puppet animators without qualification.
I suppose it's also the technique traditionally chosen by beginners because you don't have to produce many drawings to make a film. It looks easy.
Article about Lotte Reiniger
Still (or perhaps pre-production art?) from "Tale of Tales"
I suppose it's also the technique traditionally chosen by beginners because you don't have to produce many drawings to make a film. It looks easy.
Article about Lotte Reiniger
Still (or perhaps pre-production art?) from "Tale of Tales"