Have you ever wondered how Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam did his cut-out animations? In the following video, he shows exactly how he did his work, and the techniques he used were quite straight-forward. Gilliam’s results were nonetheless extraordinary thanks to the creative imagination he employed in his work:

Gilliam used thousands of pre-existing images. Watching this video made me wonder whether he was ever sued for copyright violation, given that he created an endless stream of derivative works (I’m assuming that he would invoke fair use).