LOTTE REINIGER.
Lotte Reiniger’s artistic process, she used scissors to cut puppets out of paper, using pins to allow easy movement of the puppets limps. She would, then assemble them onto wooden sticks so she could easily move them behind the white curtain or she would arrange the puppets on a flat table, using her invention, the multiplane camera to capture the puppet as it is moved in the scene.
For one of my modules at university, I was challenged to create product packaging inspired by the artist Lotte Reininger. After some research, I learnt that Lotte Reininger was a very influential artist and filmmaker. Throughout her career, she experimented with new ways of creating films, pioneering shadow puppet stop-motion animation films. She was inspired by the German art of shadow animation and the Chinese art of paper cutting, from an early age Lotte Reiniger combined these two influences and created her very own style of animation. Her films were fair tale spin-offs, she recreated her version of Cinderella. These dreamlike fair-take animations were advanced in her time, as most films relied on the actor’s facial expressions and emotions to create a narrative where as Lotte Reiniger’s animations used movement to create a narrative.
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