Pixels (film)

Pixel is part of a French animated short film by Patrick Jean from the year 2010.

Action

From an old, discarded TV to escape a pixel cloud that pours over New York City. Space Invaders shoot from the air onto the street and break down a taxi in many pixel blocks, while a Pacman eats various subway entrances. Tetris blocks go to the New York skyscrapers down, and let the individual residential blocks disappear, Arkanoid balls are struck with independent paddling against the Brooklyn Bridge, so this stone is removed for stone and finally collapses, while Donkey Kong for further chaos the streets and provides Frogger hastily examined the width. As a result of a bomb explosion the pixels take power over the whole globe, which becomes a pixel block in space.

Production

Patrick Jean takes pixel on many 8 -bit computer games or slot games terms, he has played in his childhood. The film was made as a mixture of live action and computer animation scenes; the filming of the real scenes took place in New York City within two days. Jean called films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Ghostbusters as a source of inspiration for pixel, which was originally planned as a music video.

Pixel was first published in April 2010 on Dailymotion on the Internet and viewed within 24 hours, over a million copies; six days after publication, the number of spectators had risen to over 2 million. As a consequence, the pixel was also shown on numerous short and animation film festival.

Awards

Pixel won the 2011 Cristal d' Annecy Animation Festival d' Annecy for the best short film.