Young Terry Gilliam Shows You How to Make Your Own Cutout Animation

The joy of the man with his cutouts is sheer inspi­ra­tion. :)) Amaz­ing Ter­ry Gilliam, such a won­der­ful artist.

One of the most under­rat­ed genius­es of the PYTHON group. I love his work. All of it! The ani­ma­tion the direct­ing and his stand in char­ac­ters such as Pat­sy in the Holy Grail. He has one of my dream jobs! It’s one of the mir­a­cles of the inter­net that we can feel as if we are actu­al­ly sit­ting in a room with him watch­ing him work. Man would i love spend­ing a week work­ing with him! I bet it’s a blast! When you weren’t laugh­ing too hard to get some actu­al work in that is. I won­der what type of cam­era he liked best and/or has he switched to dig­i­tal now and how that is done. Thanks for the les­son Ter­ry!

I always loved the ani­mat­ed sequences in “Mon­ty Python’s Fly­ing Cir­cus”. I was too young to realised that it was Ter­ry Gilliam who cre­at­ed them. I love how he achieved what he did with every­day mate­ri­als, lim­it­ed tech­nol­o­gy and an over­dose of cre­ativ­i­ty, humour, clev­er­ness, and clear­ly patience and atten­tion to detail. I was so enthralled, I watched right to the very end, and was star­tled when I saw Sponge­bob in the clos­ing cred­its! It’s unmis­tak­able. I can only imag­ine that Gilliam’s genius inspired the cre­ator of Sponge­bob Squarepants to cre­ate his icon­ic char­ac­ter whose long-run­ning series has become a house­hold name, like Mon­ty Python was in the 1970s. Thank you, Mr Gilliam, for many years of enter­tain­ment!