Lotte Reiniger

                                      L0TTE REINIGER

Lotte Reiniger was a German animator that was born in 1899 she is widely regarded as Germany's first animator and the only one at the time in Germany to be making Shade or cut out animation in a manner like no other.

She has made over 100 cut outs for one film known as a The Adventure's of Prince Ahmed which is the one she is the most famous for, from there on out she joined a animation company in which she met her husband and has made cut out animations of all kinds of folk to fiction stories, you say animation like cinderella yes she made that without a scratch a animation about Hansel and Gretel did that with her eyes closed she was THAT good.

But what she did that no one else did that even Disney and Pixar films could not, is make her style HERS no one could copy that. Many German advertisers, animators used her style of animation but none matched her style, the smoothness of her animation was on a whole other level. Even when asked about it she refers to her self in the early days as a caveman animator, but in reality her work was the most advanced thing out there.

Her animations would make anyone feel a certain way, the animations have life, have a feel unlike the ones from Disney and Pixar. They were made with a heart, she loved her work and even when she said herself it would take years just to make a single animation she still loved it and felt happy when it was out and giving people happiness.

1. She was a pioneer of shade/cutout animation, no one could match her. Its said that it started with her and ended with her.

2. She brought life to animation in a way Pixar and Disney always wanted but never could match, she pioneered the section of story telling in a way her animations would be more true than the local media would ever dare to reveal in their paper at the time.