Cut Out Animation

The first animation I tried tackling was cut out.

So first I did a drawing of my character.

So next I needed to split him up so the different parts could move.

I started doing this drawing but realised I was not splitting him up correctly.

I am still not splitting him up enough, so tried again.

Then I coloured him in on photoshop, printed him and then cut him out.

Then I tried to make a small animation of him walking using Windows movie maker and this is how it turned out.

I don't think it turned out very well as he looks like he is skipping rather than walking. I think my main problem there was I was not using the proper "Brad" clips to hold my character together, which made it harder to keep the character in the same position as the shot before.

So I will deffinitly invest in those if I chose to do cutout animation.

As I did find it enjoyable, but very time consuming.