

It requires every bit as much animating knowledge and skill to do classical “limited” animation, but it can reduce the amount of labor required to produce the final animation by reducing the amount of drawing needed. A common misconception is that the “limited” approach is a less skilled approach to animating then using the “full” approach. The classical “limited” animation approach is to separate the character into layers and only redraw those layered parts that change in a frame while "holding" the unchanged layers.
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The “full” animation approach is to redraw the full character in its entirety for each frame that changes as we create the illusion of movement. There is the “full” animation approach and the “limited” animation approach. There are two fundamental approaches to producing hand drawn cartoon animation. In creating a hand drawn cartoon character we must consider how we will be animating that character.

Thus with the "cut-out" character we will combine articulation of jointed body parts with the replacement of body parts to create the illusion of movement. Additionally a "cut-out" character will consist of replacement parts that can be swapped. A “cut-out” character is a character that has a multi-element hierarchy to create movable joints. I plan to balance basic conceptual understanding of the subject with step by step “how to” guidance.įirst, I want to clearly define what I mean by a “cut-out” character. I’m going to try my best to be as in-depth as practical, so be patient, as my goal is to provide a definitive series on “cut-outs”.

This is the first in a series of tutorials about creating and animating “cut-out” characters.
