Kara Walker

A contemporary female artist who also works in silhouettes and paper cut-outs is Kara Walker, here are some examples of her work:



Walker's work seems to pay homage to traditional silhouette art like Reiniger's, but with a larger concern for topics such as identity, race and sexuality.  

Lotte Reiniger

Reiniger was a female animator in the 1950s, she worked with paper cut-outs in a different way to the artists I have looked at so far and worked with silhouettes. This is similar to the way my boy will appear in the sweet land levels, but the way they move and the actual animation process may be more helpful to look at for my real world animation experiments... here is an example of her work:


Her later work had some coloured backgrounds, but still mainly silhouettes...

Update - FGA6 Week 1

I have handed in my document of concept images and can now focus on FGA6 in which I will be mostly experimenting with paper cut out animation and digital animation techniques. Flash tutorials this week (week 2) have been extremely helpful for more basic understanding of the programme. I have started animating a sweet land scene in Flash. Discussion with Britta has introduced me to animator Lotte Reiniger and I will be doing another post on her silhouette work, something that I hope will help my real world cut-out animation and my sweet land boy animation. I will also be looking at representation of the elderly in games and possibly other media, something I will mostly be doing in critical studies but that will help my course work. I will no doubt blog about it here too.