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RESEARCH TASK

Discover as much as you can about Lotte Reiniger in 10 minutes. Write your findings in the
text box below…
In your own words describe the technique of animation Lotte Reiniger used…
Whilst watching the video jot down the process Lotte Reiniger goes through to make her

Lotte reiniger uses silhouette animation technique

animations.

First lotte reiniger draws what the characters will look like and then makes the characters with
black paper and rolls it so its flat then uses a light box with paper on top to make the animation
stand out more using story boards to follow through to make the animation moving him one
frame at a time.

Define Aesthetic
Watch the example Lotte Reiniger film and make notes on its aesthetic attributes

Limited colour variation black and white with white being focused at the back rather than the
front which portrays a certain feeling

LOTTE REINIGER
Why is this form of animation effective? What's not so effective?

Two reasons why it’s not effective It takes a lot of time and you have to be precise with it

Two reasons why it is effective Looks fluent when finished and the setting of the background and
foreground is good

New developments in Media and Art are often not themselves brand new but instead learn
and build upon work of the past.

As Lotte Reiniger was one of the first feature length animators do you think we can see any
influence of her work in animation today.

Use the internet to help you find out some information or examples. Add images too.

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