Lotte Reiniger’s shadow puppet animation continues to be rather ingenious, by all accounts. Telling the tale of Papageno from The Magic Flue, Reiniger’s silhouetted characters still have a lot of life and movement to them even with the restraints of a much stiffer medium of animation to work with. We can see her using a lot of techniques here that would be popular with a lot of flash animators in the 00s, even, cheating movement and transformation through abrupt shifts.
Lotte Reiniger’s shadow puppet animation continues to be rather ingenious, by all accounts. Telling the tale of Papageno from The Magic Flue, Reiniger’s silhouetted characters still have a lot of life and movement to them even with the restraints of a much stiffer medium of animation to work with. We can see her using a lot of techniques here that would be popular with a lot of flash animators in the 00s, even, cheating movement and transformation through abrupt shifts.
