The news story that I have chosen is happened in New Zealand, Australia. A cargo ship accident in New Zealand resulted in a 350-ton oil spill into the ocean. The spill devastatingly killed thousand of sea birds, including some of the native blue penguins.To help penguins affected by the oil spill, a yarn store asked people to sew knit sweaters for the small animals.

While sweaters might be an unusual solution, Napier, New Zealand yarn store Sketinz thought that these "penguin jumpers" would keep the birds warm and safe from consuming the toxic oil coating on their feathers until they can be cleaned.
I want to make an animation about this news story by using the found objects, because it could take less time than hand drawings once the characters and objects has been produced.

Lotte Reiniger’s Silhouette Animation

Lotte Reiniger?s career as an independent filmmaker is among the longest and most singular in film history, spanning some 60 years (1919-79) of actively creating silhouette animation films. Her The Adventures of Prince Achmed is the world?s first feature-length animation film, made when she was in her mid-twenties and winning considerable acclaim.Before there was Disney’s first full-length animated feature, “Snow White” (1937), there was Lotte Reiniger’s “The Adventures of Prince Achmed” (1926). Inspired by Chinese silhouette puppetry, Reiniger was a German animator who specialized in silhouette animation and invented a technique which involved cutting out sheets of lead and cardboard and animating them frame by frame under a camera. One of her famous films was “The Adventures of Prince Achmed.” Based on the stories of 1001 Arabian Nights, it tells the tale of the main character finding the magic lamp and defeating the evil sorcerer. It is the oldest animated feature film that still is surviving today. Check out the videos below about how Lotte Reiniger made her silhouette animation and a clip of “The Adventures of Prince Achmed.”

Lotte Reiniger - Hansel and Gretel