Pixilation
Pixilation is a technique of animation and refers to the films of people or objects with a single frame. The term was probably coined by Norman McLaren, who used this technique in his Oscar-winning film Neighbours ( 1952). The word is based on the English term pixilated - slightly crazy, quirky, eccentric, and alludes to the fidgety, crazy movements that occur with this technique. The term pixilated in turn comes from the word pixie - a goblin -like creature from Celtic mythology.
Technology
The movements of people get through the slightly pixilation stock character of figures in a stop-motion film. In addition, several effects are possible. Persons or objects may appear and disappear in the image. When a person between two images one step each time moves forward, for the image itself but stands still, one obtains in the film the impression that they would slip to move across the floor without the feet. If a person jumps every time in the air at the time of recording, it acts in the film as she was flying. It is advisable to use a tripod, otherwise you shake the film.
Pixilation is one of the easiest film tricks and can be realized with any camera with single frame. Especially who works with the Super8 cine film format, with pixilation can easily make the first steps in animation. But even in experimental films as well as in music videos pixilation is often used by the special appearance sake.
Examples
- Neighbours ( short film by Norman McLaren, 1952, Academy awards )
- The story of the chair (A Chairy Tale ) ( short film by Norman McLaren, 1957)
- Stop, Look and Listen ( Len Janson and short film by Chuck Menville, 1967)
- Monsieur pointu ( short film by André Leduc and Bernard Longpré, 1975)
- Sledge Hammer ( Music video for Peter Gabriel from Aardman Animations, 1985)
- The small seizure ( jídlo ) ( short film, partly in pixilation, Jan Švankmajer, 1992)
- Gisèle Kerozene (short film by Jan Kounen, 1999)
- The Hardest Button to Button ( music video for the White Stripes, 2003)
- Stop Motion