Les Trois Inventeurs -The Three Inventors- is a cake paper, lace- and paper cut (you know I love aper cuts too, like the works of Rob Ryan for example!) stop motion animation by Michel Ocelot from three decades back. It's incredibly detailed and beautiful and also the kind of work that makes me anxious trying to imagine myself doing it. So I try my best not to :)
You can watch the little sad story here: