life in 2D

I looked around the animation galllery at the Bradford Media Museum and found some great films that didn't need a film camera to shoot them. Below are some 2D animations that use stop motion animation that show how creativly and imaginatively you can make a moving image film without the use of a moving image camera.

This is a short film based on Russian Folklore by an animator called Yuri Norstein. This is the most advanced animation out of the three here using effects to make fog and also the characters and backgound are much more detailed. I really like the musical sound effects, sort of like the use of the flute in Peter and the Wolf.

Below is a clip from Monty Python's Flying Circus by Terry Gilliam, which i think is a very effective form of anmation, using mostly collage in a pop art style, and although this 2D way of working was done years before Terry Gilliam's creations it is still very popular, showing how versatile and lasting this method is.

I really like the animation below by Michel Ocelot as the use of paper doilies makes it a quaint and pretty film. I think I might buy this from Amazon or somewhere as I can't find the rest of the film on YouTube. The really simple colours and and intricate detail really suits the fact the film is all 2 dimensional.

Loco Roco is a psp game that takes on the ideas of these very simple 2D animations as it consists of just flat blobs and bright colours, even the controls are very minimal only using two buttons on the whole console. It looks as if it has been made on Illustrator.