Hello all
I perfectly understand both your point of views, you are both saying that cutout animation is only, and truly joint motion, no point motion or any other form of animation. In your perspective, cutout cannot employ stretch and squash for example. Are we clear on that?
The problem is that most human, and I am one of them, need to classify pretty much everything. The fact is, that the industry classified this type of animation as cutout style animation, which is the term I have been using all along.
The style part of that assumption comes from the fact that this is not cutout per say, this is obviouslly not cardboard or paper or whatever other medium that was cut-out to create shapes. It has been reffered to as cut-out because it reproduces that medium.
True, computer added some flexibility to the process, we can change colors, or shapes of the cut-outs pretty easilly, nevertheless, the principles of it are the same. In all of the classic mediums for animation, which one AS style comes close to?
Can you reproduce beauty and the beast ball room scene in AS? Was it build for stopmotion? If AS is not cut-out style animation, what is it then?
Computer animation has not reinvented the wheel, the computer is merelly a tool that helps in making a rather tedious, although fun task, animation, faster and more accessible to the masses.
Even 3D, isn't it nothing more then a computerized version of puppeteering or stopmotion with a dash of classical animation?
Now, look at all the animation software terms out there, they all come from old classical animation terms. You can find pretty much all of these terms in classic books from either Disney or Blair. Of course, some terms we're added to suits the need of that new medium, but most of these terms come from classical type of animation.
Synth, you are not honnest when you say I havnt shown you anything with point motion that reffers to cut-outs in my previous posts. In a pm I pointed you to
this website, asked you to watch the trailers, even asked you to go on the creator's blog.
Those are reffered to in that cutout pdf I posted, you can even see the Eric character pose setup in the pdf, this is cut-out in the industry and it uses tons of motion points.
Again, computers brought some flexibility to this type of animation compared to the cut-out used in old style film version. Just like old style film version brought flexibility to the ancient form of cut-out animation the chinese have been doing for centuries.
Changes in the medium does not make it less cut-out style.
Now let me be clear on something, I never suggested that AS becomes a hand drawn animation, I am just asking for a little more flexibility, as I suggested in my first post.
Gilles
