Media trends

Cutout animations are an extremely early style of animation dating back to 1918 when an Italian Argentine animator named Quirino Cristiani created El Apostol. However, in popular media they are still relevant today as they are still being made with popular shows such as South Park, albeit this show has changed from doing it from stop motion to digitally over the years.

One thing I have noticed about the cutout animation style is that they tend to be used in fantasy or historical medias. An example of cutout animations explaining historical events is from the popular children's historical series Horrible Histories. Horrible Histories is known to be popular with kids as it is educating them with the use of basic understandings, humour and the use of using modern trends to demonstrate the historical times that children can relate to. Although cutout animations are not the key salient methods used in Horrible Histories, they are used frequently during the title sequence of the specific genre of history.

I think cut out animation would be ideal for this project as they seem to be trending in franchises that are about historical education, and the project is aimed at Enguinity, an iron factory museum.

CrashCourse is a YouTube channel series by The Green Brothers which is targeted towards educating children about historical events and science. This series shows basic digital cut out-like animations to support the narrative of the subject.

 

 

 

An additional set of media that uses cutout animation are The Monty Python movies. Like Horrible Histories, these are also based on historical events and use comedy. Like Horrible Histories, the cutout animations act as a minor part in the series and are not used as the main outlet. Unlike Horrible Histories and CrashCourse, The Monty Python series are not entirely historically accurate as they are not for educational purposes and they are not intended for children.