Thursday, November 4, 2010

Pixillation

Norman McLaren coined the term pixillation for the stop-motion animation technique that consists in shooting, one frame at a time, characters or objects whose movements are controlled entirely by the filmmaker. He used this technique in Neighbours (1952), a powerful antiwar fable, then in A Chairy Tale (1957) and Opening Speech (1961), two films in which the story turns on the refusal of an everyday object (a chair and a microphone) to behave as expected.

http://www3.nfb.ca/animation/objanim/en/techniques/pixillation.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XIiWOuDuxc

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