Today, the computer has pervaded all forms of animation and cut-out animation is no exception.
In fact by using motion tweens and symbols, you can avoid having to manually set up every frame.
Lotte Reiniger
Lotte Reiniger was born in Berlin in 1899. She established a successful studio specializing in silhouette animation in Germany in the 1920s.
The first full-length animated feature in movie history, Lotte Reiniger’s Die Abenteur des Prinzen Achmed (The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926) is a dazzling and sensuous rendering of fables from The Arabian Nights: Tales From a Thousand and One Nights made with silhouette cutouts set on illuminated glass backdrops. It is the oldest surviving feature-length animated film, and it featured a silhouette animation technique Reiniger had invented which involved manipulated cutouts made from cardboard and thin sheets of lead under a camera. The original prints featured color tinting.