I've seen them jump but I cant do them in my own films
TB

There are many ways to do it, here is one ( you have to download gimp first ): http://www.spanglefish.com/BlueSourdough/index.asp?pageid=140908 or you could just move the character back like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbub5gP8PlE&feature=related. You could just use some fishing wire and hold it up in the air whilst taking frames.

Hope I helped,

P&B

I hear some animators use sheets of glass to do this, however I think lot of these effects are done with CGI. In A Matter Of Loaf And Death they used a CGI Wallace when he fell from one of the blades of the windmill.

A popular method is to use rigging and then edit it out afterwards using after effects software. Purple&Brown's method is very useful, so I'd definitely recommend that.

Just take a look at the hug rigs used on the Shaun the Sheep sets!
http://www.shaunthesheep.com/forum/download/10/32067/531550

What was under the censored bit?

i wouldn't suggest the moving back method, that will make it look like, well, it is moving back, i am not an expert or anythin' but on my beaver creek episodes (if you havent seen them here they are http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A75AF9C769EA009D whenever something has to fly i either do one of two things, sometimes I put the video in flash and animate it flying there. the thing i do for larger detailed objects is attaching them to a rig, (i use an old microphone stand) but anything that will support and be movable. i attach fishing wire and usually add a bit of motion blur, because if something is in the air it is probably going pretty fast.

here is one of the rigs used in beaver creek 4, nuthin to fancy

katie, that picture was from Spring Lamb, correct?

this froum is realy good

I've got a few ideas for rigs:

Put a sheet of glass on the front of the set

use rigging and use photoshop to get rid of it

use thin wire

I use all these