Links for studying cutout animation

• Mike Craver's cutout masterpiece The Dame of Camellias - he uses watercolors and works very large, using an old iPhone SE because the camera is so good. He has rigged his to a tripod but I'm thinking about using a boom microphone stand and a fixture that holds the phone to the stand. He is very old school! No computer manipulation. If he doesn't like a character's face, he whites it out and paints it over again.
  
• Tutorial by Terry Gilliam of Monty Python's Flying Circus. He used pictures cut out of magazines and they were so flimsy he had to put a big piece of glass on top to hold them down for every shot. Then when he picked up the glass the pieces flew around unless he had tacked them all down.
• How to Make a Paper Puppet for Stop Motion Animation by John O'Donnell - (he uses a quarter-inch hole punch to make a hole in the back piece. Puts a dab of glue on the back of the front piece and attaches it through the hole to a paper disk behind the back piece.
• FayeMaybe's Making Puppets for Animation. She is using index cards for her puppets. She pokes a hole in the back piece, bends an L shape out of wire and tapes it to the front piece, turns it so the wire stands up and pokes it through the back piece. Then she makes a spiral out of the wire and flattens it on the back of the back piece. Looks hard.
• Houston Filmmaker Explores Dimensions of Paper Animation is a good overview of the wonderful work of animator Brandon Ray. He photographs his moving characters on a piece of glass suspended over a background or a green screen. Not sure why.
• Making of Paper plane by Massimo Giangrande gives a good overview of the initial planning and the drawing process. And here is the finished product: Giangrande's Paper Plane
• Gianluca Maruotti's cutout animation music video for Tay Oskee's song Black Smoke
• Aleene's 29-2 Tack-It Over & Over Liquid Glue 4oz for holding things down temporarily
• The bigger you work, the easier the creating and manipulation are. Mike's puppets are about 8" tall.
• Outline the body parts and cut right to/through the outline. Recommended to blacken the edges of the pieces to avoid flashes of white