Animators using cut out technique. 





Charlotte "Lottie" Reiniger was a German fil director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. Reiniger made more than 40 films over her career, all using her invention. Her best know films are 'the adventures of prince achmed' (1926)- the oldest surviving featured length animated film, preceding Walt Disney's featured-length 'snow white and the seven dwarfs' (1937) by over ten years- and 'papageno' (1935), featuring music by Mozart. Reiniger is also noted for devising a predecessor to the first multi-plane camera.




 John Gerald Christopher Ryan was a British animator and cartoonist, best known for his character Captain Pugwash. His brother was Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher Columbia ryan. Ryan was born in Edinburgh. He expressed his love of writing and drawing early in life, creating his first book ' adventures of tommy brown' at the age of 7. Ryan attended Ampleforth college, a catholic barding school. After serving as an officer with the Lincolnshire Regiment in Burma during the second world war, Ryan studied at the Regent street Polytechnic.



Terrence Vance Gilliam is an American- born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor, comedian and member of the Monty python comedy troupe.  Gilliam has directed 12 feature films, including Monty python and the holy grail, time bandits, brazil, the adventures of baron Munchausen, the fisher king, 12 monkeys, fear and loathing in Las Vegas, The brother Grimm and the imaginarium of doctor parnassus, The only "python" not born in Britain, he became a naturalised British citizen in 1968 and formally renounced his American citizenship in 2006. Gilliam started his career as an animator and strip cartoonist. One of his early photographic strips for 'help!' featured future Python cast member John Cleese. When 'help!' folded, Gilliam went to Europe, jokingly announcing in the very last issue that he was "being transferred tot he European branch" of the magazine, Which of course did not exist. Moving to England, he animated sequences for the children's series do not adjust your set, which also featured Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.





 South Park is an America adult animation sitcom  created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone (usually collectively known as Matt and Trey) for the Comedy Central television network. The show revolves around four boys—Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick—and their bizarre adventures in and around the titular Colorado town. Much like The Simpsons, South Park uses a very large ensemble cast of recurring characters. Intended for mature audiences, the show has become infamous for its crude language and dark, surreal humour that satirizes a wide range of topics.


Lauren Child MBE  is an English writer and illustrator. She is best known for the Charlie and Lola picture books and the Clarice Bean series of picture books and novels. She wrote the series of Ruby Redfort. Influences: E. H. Shepard, Quentin Blake, Carl Larsson, Ludwig Bemelmans.
Child introduced Charlie and Lola in 2000 with I will not ever Never eat a tomato and won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association for the year's most "distinguished illustration in a book for children". For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005), a panel named it one of the top ten winning works, which composed the ballot for a public election of the nation's favourite. It finished third in the public vote from that shortlist
 

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