Pixilation - the beginning

ok so the interactive narrative is technically over in the 9 week rotation structure and we have officially started the new 3 week project - Pixilation, which as i learnt today, is different to Pixellation, Pixellation is the effect when you zoom in on a bitmap and you can see the individual pixels, when you zoom in and see the pixels, it means that picture has been pixellated. on a relevant note Pixelization is the effect to deliberately blur something in an image, like in a tv show where they dont want to show the persons face.
ANYWAY... im doing Pixillation, a form of animation using stop motion with photography.

"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." 
wikipedia definition.


Any ideas as of yet... not entirely, but i am doing some research as to what i can do, after the group attempt we had (which will be posted soon), it becomes an individual project, and i personally prefer that, as much as i enjoyed working with the group of lovely people, i enjoy working on my own as i feel i get what i want done and can do exactly what i want to do. so at the moment i am researching and CONSTANTLY thinking of what i could do, id prefer not to include people, possibly body parts like hands, but id prefer to make inanimate objects come to life or change entirely, as i said i am researching, but i should have a few ideas posted soon. Pixilation is also something i have never done before, like flash im new to it, so it should be exciting to learn something new, and i do enjoy photography, so im going to enjoy doing this project.

This is a great example of Pixilation, done in the 50's by a man called Norman McLaren, even though it was done in the 50's its still an impressive film, it isn't outdated much apart from the smoking, it could have been done today and looked very similar, we were shown this in the introductory session to pixilation so i guess its worth putting on my blog.





and another piece by Normal Mclaren, but im still watching this wondering exactly how he did it so smoothly.