what is the name of this style of animation

[Benjamin Arthur]

I’d call this a paper cut-out style of animation, where everything is 2D layers being manipulated in 3D space. It’s being combined with a kind of mechanical style, they took care to show the strings and connected elements to give it a feeling of an old style machine from an arcade or mechanical museum.

[Nizar Nassour]

Hi thank you for your reply

if I liked to see more videos about this style of animation on you tube is it enough to type (paper cut-out style of animation)

I learn everyday

[John Williams]

Yes, it’s traditionally know as ‘cut out’ animation based on the fact that originally it was made using cut-out paper and card, hinged together with string and wires to allow stop frame animation.

While this was originally done under a camera and often with pieces placed on glass to create depth, nearly every version of that style is recreated in After Effects due to it’s layering system. Often the best way of recreating that look theses days is combining scanned or photographed 2D elements and then lighting and animating them in After Effects.

There’s an image from ‘The South Bank Show’ I worked on several years ago using the style at this link:

https://cargocollective.com/johnfx

An here’s a section from a musical film that uses similar technique:

https://vimeo.com/113122280

John Williams

Soho Editors

Some contents or functionalities here are not available due to your cookie preferences!

This happens because the functionality/content marked as “Vimeo framework” uses cookies that you choosed to keep disabled. In order to view this content or use this functionality, please enable cookies: click here to open your cookie preferences.