Reiniger pioneered silhouette animation: Hand-making detailed black cardboard cutouts put together with wire hinges, she would bring her puppets to life by capturing small movements frame by frame ...

BERLIN — Animation in silhouette makes for fine images and there are some nifty fables in French artist Michel Ocelot ‘s Tales of the Nigh t, but the design necessarily lacks facial expression ...

German film director Charlotte 'Lotte' Reiniger, the pioneer of silhouette animation, has been honoured with a Google doodle on what would have been her 117th birthday.

The great German animator Lotte Reiniger directed the earliest surviving animated feature The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), a silent fantasy epic told through silhouette animation, a ...

This legendary 1926 animated film, an Arabian Nights–style fairy tale, is like a fever dream from another world, consisting of excruciatingly detailed stop-motion silhouette animation. Ahead of ...

While present at the Festival in name and inspiration, Lotte Reiniger’s unbridled spirit and lifelong dedication to silhouette art/silhouette animation can be more fully experienced a mere 26 ...

Set in a world of iron airships, this silhouette animation tells the story of Jasper Morello, a disgraced aerial navigator who flees his plague-ridden home hoping to redeem himself. His expedition ...