Ninja Phil! My First Animation

I have been in film school for the last couple of years, and this time around I decided to try my hand at animation.  

For my first project I was assigned to do produce a 10 second animation using cut-outs.  The basic theory is to use construction paper to cut out little puppets.  You then move them a little bit and take a picture, move them slightly more, and take another picture.  To produce 10 seconds I had to repeat that process 300 times, which may not seem like too many but it takes several hours worth of work.

For Ninja Phil I made two puppets out of construction paper. I have a ninja and a girl.  Now the ninja is in love with the girl and wants to take her away, so he climbs over the wall and drops down near her.  At this point she thinks that he has come to kill her but instead of producing a sword he pulls out a bouquet of flowers.  I was originally going to do something a little more complex, but didn't quite have the time.  The Background is simply two pieces of scrapbooking paper one cut to look like a hill. The wall is also made out of scrapbook paper cut to look like rocks and glued on a piece of construction paper.

Next time I will go into a little more depth on the creation process, such as pictures of the animation stand where I work.  

For now just sit back and enjoy the show.