Scene from Yuriy Norshteyn's upcoming feature film, The Overcoat

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Today, cutout-style animation is frequently produced using computers, with scanned images or vector graphics taking the place of physically cut materials. The South Park TV series is a notable example (though first episodes were indeed made with actual paper cutouts) as are Angela Anaconda and more recently, Charlie and Lola. One of the most famous animators still using traditional cutout animation today is Yuriy Norshteyn. The NASA Columbia Supercomputer. ... It has been suggested that Vector monitor be merged into this article or section. ... For other uses, see South Park (disambiguation). ... Ḍ Angela Anaconda is a cutout animation cartoon from Canada that aired on the Fox Family Channel (now called ABC Family) in the U.S. It revolves around an eight-year-old girl named Angela who has wacky brothers, weird friends, and hates a fake-French girl named Nanette Manoir. ... Charlie and Lola. ... Yuriy Norshteyn Yuriy Borisovich Norshteyn (Russian: ), or Yuri Norstein or Yuri Norshtein (born September 15, 1941) is an award-winning Russian animator most known for his animated short Tale of Tales. ...

Examples of cutout animation

For more examples, see the List of stop-motion films.

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Feature films

• The Adventures of Prince Achmed by Lotte Reiniger (from 1926) was a silhouette animation using armatured cutouts and backgrounds which were variously painted or composed of blown sand and even soap.
• Lefty, a 1964 Soviet film.
• Go There, Don't Know Where, a 1966 Soviet film.
• René Laloux's early short films were comprised of armatured cutouts; his first feature [Fantastic Planet]] used unarmatured cutouts which acted more like cel animation.
• The feature films of Karel Zeman (Czechoslovakia), which combined cutout animation and landscapes with live actors.
• The opening sequence from L'Armata Brancaleone, a film by Italian director Mario Monicelli.
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut uses computer animation to imitate the look of cutout animation.

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Other

• Monty Python's Flying Circus is famous for its animated sequences created by Terry Gilliam.
• Kihachirō Kawamoto, primarily a puppet animator, made two cutout films Tabi (1973) and Shijin no Shôgai (1974).
• Angela Anaconda combined black-and-white photographs with cutout-style CGI animation.
• South Park's pseudo-cutout style is more traditional, as is Blue's Clues.
• The TV series of Lauren Child's Charlie and Lola uses a complex combination of photographic and drawn elements to imitate the collage style of the books.
• Joel Veitch uses this animation style in his website Rathergood.com.
• Strange frame relies primarily on an innovative cutout style combined with both traditional and 3D elements.
• Cutout Pro's Stickman software can be used to create cutout-style animations.
• The intro of the TV series Unfabulous uses cut-out animation in the same style as the show Angela Anaconda. Both shows were also created by the same person.