Pixilation

Pixilation
Pixilation is animating something already living. Pixilation is a stop motion technique where living people are use frame-by-frame “The actor becomes a kind of living stop motion puppet. 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.”(from wikipedia) I have watched two different animations which both used pixilation but also a lot of different techniques.
The first animation I watched was Food by Jan svankmajer. This animation was based on human vending machines and trapping people by tricking them into eating a sausage. It uses pixilation; clay motion and live action to make it almost seem real. It uses close ups, long and medium shots which I think is very effective. I think it is weirdly disturbing But effective. the aim of pixilation is diffrent to other techiniques because it doesnt aim to be smooth like other types of animation instead the jumpyness makes a whole different effect.

The second animation was neighbors by Norman McCarran which passed on a important anti war message by showing the consequences of arguing. It uses pixilation with non and diegetic sound

Websites used:
Wikipedia.org
Youtube.com
jansvankmajer.com