Pixilation (from pixilated) is a stop motion technique where live actors are used as a frame-by-frame subject in an animated film, by repeatedly posing while one or more frame is taken and changing pose slightly before the next frame or frames. The actor becomes a kind of living stop motionpuppet. This technique is often used as a way to blend live actors with animated ones in a film, such as in The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb by the Bolex Brothers, which used the technique to compelling and eerie effect.

Time lapse video

Film is often projected at 24 frames meaning that 24 images appear on the screen every second. Under normal circumstances a film camera will record images at 24 frame/s. Since the projection speed and the recording speed are the same, the images onscreen appear to move normally.

Ideas for cut out animation

Today Me and my colleagues discussed further ideas for our cut out animation video and we are ready to film it after today.

Creating my animation

Iv started to create some ideas for my first cut out animation , i am basing it on a popular computer game.

Cut out animation

B.o.B feat. Bruno Mars "Nothin On You" from ethandirector on Vimeo.

Cutout animation is a technique for producing animations using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper, card, stiff fabric or even hotographs. The world's earliest known animated feature films were cutout animations (made in Argentina by Quirino Christiani); as is the world's earliest surviving animated feature.