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Frédé̩ric Back, caring together

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Filmmaker

  • Introduction
  • Filmography
    • Abracadabra
    • Inon or the Conquest of Fire
    • The Creation of Birds
    • ¿Illusion?
    • Taratata!
    • All Nothing
    • Crac!
    • The Man Who Planted...
    • The Mighty River
  • Animated sequences for television
  • Distributors
  • See the films
  • Animation techniques
    • Introduction
    • Traditional (cel) animation
    • Paper cut-out animation
    • Freehand drawing
    • Looped animation
    • Drawing on frosted cels
    • Cel overlays
    • Small-scale drawings
    • Multiple possibilities
    • The role of the 'tweener'
    • Camera techniques
    • References to painters
    • The soundtrack
    • Narration
    • A powerful communication tool
  • The Radio-Canada animation studio
    • Introduction
    • Beginnings of a professional animation studio
    • Films produced by Radio-Canada's animation department
    • Impressive calling cards
    • The members of Radio-Canada's animation studio
    • The films produced by Radio-Canada's animation studio
  • Collaborators
    • Producer
    • Composer
    • Cameramen
    • Editors
    • Inbetweener
    • Management
  • Letter to a young animator

Paper cut-out animation

FrédéricBack's choice of technique was always based on two considerations: it had to be appropriate to the subject, and also had to allow him to work quickly since he was perpetually short of time. These considerations prompted his use of paper cut-outs in The Creation of Birds, in which the wind whistles through the trees and scatters the leaves.


[Document: D_1638]

[Illustration] Image from the film The Creation of Birds.
Credit: Radio-Canada and Frédéric Back, 1972


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