Terry Gilliam Cut Paper Animation (Copy)

His few seconds, or a couple of minutes at most, of pure fun and creative freedom accompanied the TV sketches of British comedy troupe Monty Python in the early 1970s.

Technically speaking, Terry Gilliam’s animated collages are called cut-out animations, a two-dimensional version of stop-motion where cut-outs are used just as they are in collages.

The cut-out pieces of paper are positioned on backgrounds (which can either be drawn or collages themselves) and photographed repeatedly, moving each piece a few millimeters each time. During the subsequent editing stage, the images are put into a sequence, creating the illusion of movement.