My Animation Journey

 Pixilation Project Filming and post production For this project we were tasked in creating a short film using the pixilation method. I go into further detail in a another post but to put it simply pixilation is a style of stop motion animation  in which real people and objects are used to achieve effects that are not possible in real life. All scenes in order of appearance- For this scene I wanted to give the idea of it a dreary day. The rain effect was done using paper cutouts of raindrops and manually moving them for each scene. This was done simply because I was still quite new to software like After Effects and I really love working with paper. To achieve this scene a placed my tripod where I wanted and using a Bluetooth clicker I was able to take a shot each time a took a step forward without having to use a timer. This scene was a joy to create as a lot of  the extra details were done of the fly. Not exactly a a professional way of doing things but it's rare to get to create

   Team Gilliam - Project 1 Stop motion  animation  PowerPoint 

 Pixilation Project Technique and Ideation For my first project of this semester I have to create a pixilation film with theme of 'the day in the life...' , the film needs to be at least 15 to 30 seconds long   and have sound   but what is pixilation? Pixilation is a subsect of stop motion in which real people are incorporated into the the film which allows for people in interact with the surrounding environment in ways that aren't feasible in real life. Though it was rarely used and even when it was it most likely used a form of special effects. The style of animation began to gain traction around 1950's with  Norman McLaren's anti-war film ' Neighbours' (1952)   Norman McLaren had a very experimental method of making films which sound played an important role, this is no different has there is no dialogue throughout the duration of the short meaning that a lot of the emotions of the characters are conveyed through and combination of motion, expression an