Craig mentioned Lotte Reiniger as one of his favourite animators (aside from Disney) so I've been having a look at some of her work. She was a silhouette animator and did a massive array of fairytale adaptions, which I thought was relevant!
I really love the title cards — it reminds me of Watch With Mother! Very simple and effective. This might be something I can use?
Looking mainly at the way the backgrounds contrast with the characters — again, very simple cutout shapes similar to the works of Alice & Martin Provensen and Lewitt-Him. The solid black figures against the relatively soft background is extremely striking.
If I were to go ahead with the pop up book idea, the way Lotte Reiniger animated her puppets could be something to bear in mind. In actual pop up books the character puppets are very limited in movement, often with just one or two articulated limbs — a waving arm for example — so I could make several puppets for each necessary action/expression and just flip between them?
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