cutout animation
74 movies and shows
Princes and Princesses
Wed, 26 Jan 2000
In this episodic animated fantasy from France, an art teacher interprets a series of six fairy tales (each involving a prince or princess) with the help of two precocious students. Princes and Princesses was created using a special style of cutout animation, with black silhouetted characters performing the action against backlit backdrops in striking colors.
Shinbone Alley
Fri, 26 Jun 1970
Suicidal poet Archy tries to end his life by jumping off a bridge, but awakens to find he has assumed the life of a cockroach and has become a part of a community of creatures living in a newspaper office. He also discovers that he can still write poetry, using a typewriter, and begins to enjoy his new life. Archy develops deep feelings for the lovely but self-destructive cat Mehitabel, but will have to fight to win her from bad-boy tomcat Bill.
The Fox and the Hare
Mon, 01 Jan 1973
Hare enlists four brave friends to help him reclaim his home from the wily Fox.
Glitch in the Grid
Thu, 20 Oct 2011
Three artists struggling against the grid of society find spiritual renewal.
Alexander the Grape
Wed, 24 Nov 1965
ALEXANDER THE GRAPE, an unfinished cut-paper animated short from Jim Henson from 1965, relates the fable of a young grape with big ambitions who learns that it is better to accept yourself than to try to be something you are not. The short was reconstructed from film and audio elements; images from Jim’s storyboard fill in missing segments of the animation.
Fine Feathers
Mon, 01 Jan 1968
Two duelling birds get the urge to change their plumage. A blue jay wants to be decked out in the green of cedar, and a loon dons the burnished red of oak leaves, but neither bird foresees the consequences of vanity.
Science Fiction
Thu, 01 Jan 1970
Conquerors land on a newly discovered planet and try to colonize and explore a new discovered planet.
Our Lady of the Sphere
Sat, 15 Mar 1969
Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on static backgrounds to suggest travel and discovery.
The Tain
Sun, 04 Apr 2004
A cut-out animation musical adaptation of the Irish mythological epic Táin Bó Cúailnge.
The Three Inventors
Fri, 06 Jun 1980
In a white lace universe, three inventors create machines which are both pretty and useful. Unfortunately people do not understand them...
Papageno
Sun, 11 Aug 1935
Film shows the story of Papageno (the one from Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute"), who wants a mate, yet has difficulties getting one.
Notes on a Triangle
Sat, 01 Jan 1966
In this short animation film the triangle achieves the distinction of principal dancer in a geometric ballet. The triangle is shown splitting into some three hundred transformations, dividing and sub-dividing with grace and symmetry to the music of a waltz. The film's artist and animator is René Jodoin, whose credits include Dance Squared and several collaborations with Norman McLaren.
Hamfat Asar
Mon, 05 Jul 1965
"The strangeness of this film is laced with carefully moulded apocalypses as the filmmaker explores a vision of life beyond death – the Elysian fields of Homer, Dante’s Purgatorio, de Chirico’s stitched plain. A moving single picture. Evolving the structure or script for the film involved a process of controlled hallucination, whereby I sat quietly without moving, looking at the background until the pieces began to move without my inventing things for them to do. I found that, given the chance, they really did have important business to attend to, and my job was to furnish them with the power of motion. I never deviated from this plan." —Canyon Cinema
The Extinct Suite
Tue, 20 Jun 2017
An animated film made from approximately 1700 laser printed photo(collage)s, manipulated by hand.
World Animation Discord: A Team Effort! The Legendary Animation Compilation!!
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The best animation compilation on this side of the thrift store! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtFTfsNnVdY