Moving collage, a.k.a moving cuts is a combination between collage and animation. According to Kolaj magazine, “Animation provides collage artists a different way to tell stories and potentially opens new paths to sharing their work”. Till modern ages, people still love using collage for animations.
- Able to think out of the box, paper pieces used in collage can be drawings in different art style, photograph and even news articles. It showcases the creativity of mixing and matching
- Friendly to people who are new to animation, animations are highly dependent on different softwares. People can efficiently test their concept with physical collage animation (stop motion).
Moving collage is a way to storytell with the lowest budget, handcraft skills and drawing skills but the highest creativity.
Moving collage examples
1.Dwayne Johnson – Back Against The Wall
2.Lindsey Deschamps- Inktober Day 01: RING
Example of moving collage impacts modern art/ trends:
There was a “sinking town trend” on TikTok, people do storytelling about their favorite anime with collage animation and a song call “sinking town” as the bgm. According to “Know your meme”‘s research on this trend, the trend continued to spread throughout May 2025, garnering significant attention in June of that year. TikToker @skxtchb3ar posted a moving collage inspired by the Five Nights at Freddy’s series, hits over 1.5 million views in 5 days. Another TikToker @mdkm444 ‘posted an animation set to the song’s moving collage based on the Cookie Run video games gets over 1.2 million views within a month
Sinking town moving collage example
Moving collage is also a common animation type within Hong Kong Youtube creators for documentaries videos
YouTuber Ming Jai, has 900k subscribers on this platform. He is known for his world history series including moving collage, which his viewers find them easier to understand history. It is his video explaining WW2, more than 2 million views
YouTube creator company Mil Milk, has 1 million subscribers, one of their popular series 牌子嘢 (brand thing) use moving collage to introduce history and development of brands. It is Mil Milk introducing “Kinder”
Definition and history of moving cuts
https://kolajmagazine.com/content/kolaj-fest-new-orleans/moving-cuts/
Research on moving collage “sinking town” trend source
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sinking-town-trend-animation-meme