Pixilation

On Monday we were introduced to Pixilation and were set a little brief in order to explore this technique. Pixilation is form of stop motion animation which uses live actors to create the animation. It involves the actors moving ever so slightly for each shot in order to achieve motion.

Through the lesson we were shown a bunch of European Pixilation animations, which I found to be extremely strange and weird yet fascinating at the same time. I found that these animations were very "eye opening" for me as the only animation I have ever really experienced are quite contemporary and mainstream despite the fact that I have researched animators such as The Quay Brothers. It was nice to see that animations don't have to be mainstream but more about personal taste however, it did occur to me that not everyone will like such animations, as I certainly found the majority of them weird and some even a little uncomfortable to watch.

So for our brief we had to pick ONE out of three relationships to be the base of our ideas. These were:

• Predator - Prey
• Host - Parasite
• Parent - Child

At first glance I had no idea what I wanted to do or how to go about it at all so I sat down and watched a bunch of Pixilation videos in the hopes that it would kick start any ideas.