Limerick Exercise - Cutout Animation

inspired by an ex-long-road student's cut-out stop-motion animation (as seen above) we have decided to make our own in the same spirit but with a twist. The class teamed up into groups and 10 famous limericks were laid out on a central table for us to choose and work on as a group. We reviewed the limerick and started to think about how we wanted to translate that into an stop-motion animation. This is the limerick:

"There was a young lady of Niger
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger;
They returned from the ride
With the lady inside,
And the smile on the face of the tiger."

We decided the best way to handle this task was to assign each remember of a group a different role. We mutually agreed Dan was the best artist in the group so we gave him the role of drawing the most imporant elements of the story - the tiger and the lady - whilst Doug and Holly researched jungle imagery to draw and colour in their own 'set' for the animation. I was given the role of storyboarding the animation; I sat and thought about it for several minutes and talked to other members of the group about how we wanted to portray the limerick before starting on an gridded A3 sheet.