Cut Out Animation

Cut Out Animation:

Cut out Animation is having separate drawings on a flat surface which are able to move.  For each part of the image you want to move it will have to be disconnected for the rest. For example if you wanted to move the fingers in a cut out you would have to use 5 separate fingers which you can move when recording.
Cut out animations are recorded with iStopMotion like our other animations. You just have to move the part you want very slowly so when you watch the playback it looks like it is moving. When recording a Cut out Animation you need to record on a flat surface so you can easily move the body parts.

This shows a silhouette cut out animation where all of the body parts move at some point. It also shows you how the fingers move (using 5 separate disconnected fingers). This will have been recorded on a flat background surface to be able to move the fingers and other body parts, the silhouette effect was just probably the characters being shaded.