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Pixilation
Pixilation is a stop motion technique in which 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-motion puppet. This technique is often used as a way to blend live actors with animated ones in a movie, such as in ''The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb'' by the Bolex Brothers. Early examples of this technique are '' Hôtel électrique'' from 1908 and Émile Cohl's 1911 movie ''Jobard ne peut pas voir les femmes travailler'' (''Jobard cannot see the women working''). The term is widely credited to Grant Munro (although some say it was Norman McLaren) and he made an experimental movie named "Pixillation", available in his DVD collection "Cut Up – The Films of Grant Munro." Films * Norman McLaren's Oscar-winner ''Neighbours'', ''A Chairy Tale'' (1957) and ''Two Bagatelles'' * Chuck Menville and Len Janson's tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neighbours (1952 Film)
''Neighbours'' (French title: ''Voisins'') is a 1952 anti-war film by Scottish Canadian filmmaker Norman McLaren. Produced at the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal, the film uses pixilation, an animation technique using live actors as stop motion objects. McLaren created the soundtrack of the film by scratching the edge of the film, creating various blobs, lines, and triangles which the projector read as sound. Plot Two men, Jean-Paul Ladouceur and Grant Munro (representing French Canada and English Canada respectively), live peacefully in adjacent cardboard houses. When a single, small flower (possibly a psychoactive flower) blooms between their houses, they fight each other to the death over ownership of that flower. The moral of the film is, simply, ''Love your neighbour''. The moral is also shown in other languages, including (in order of appearance): * Japanese: 同胞に親切なれ (''Dōhō ni shinsetsu nare'') * Chinese: 親善鄰居 (''Qīnshàn línjū'') *H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monsieur Pointu (film)
''Monsieur Pointu'' is a 1975 animated film about Quebec fiddler Monsieur Pointu, the stage name for Paul Cormier. Synoposis In this 12-and-a-half-minute film, Pointu and his violin break into pieces that take on a life of their own, dancing to the artist's music. Production The film was directed by Bernard Longpré and André Leduc and produced by René Jodoin for the National Film Board of Canada. ''Monsieur Pointu'' makes use of the pixillation technique pioneered by NFB animation studio founder Norman McLaren in '' Neighbours'' and '' A Chairy Tale'', combined with optical effects. Critical reception ''Monsieur Pointu'' was screened at the 1978 Festival of Animated Films in Ottawa. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 48th Academy Awards. March 27, 1976, ''The Ottawa Journal'' Section 3, Page 37< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Chairy Tale
''A Chairy Tale'' (french: Il était une chaise) is a 1957 Canadian stop-motion pixilation short film co-directed by Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra, starring Jutra with an uncooperative chair. The film humorously portrays Jutra's attempts to sit on the chair with the music set of Ravi Shankar and Chatur Lal. Synopsis The film begins with a seemingly normal chair onscreen. Jutra enters, carrying a book, and attempts to sit on the chair so he can read his book. The chair unexpectedly moves out from under him. The man's persistent become increasingly frenetic and violent to himself. Finally, the man realises that perhaps the chair will let him sit on it if he allows the chair to sit on ''him'' first. This gambit succeeds, resulting the man sits on the chair at the end. Filming The film took place on one indoor scene such as an empty stage and dark curtains in the background. The animated chair method involved using the traditional string-puppet technique with the exception of at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergeant Swell Of The Mounties
''Sergeant Swell of the Mounties'' is a 1972 short film written and directed by Len Janson and Chuck Menville, and starring Menville in the title role. Sergeant Swell short films were featured on the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour during the 1971 season, which began on September 14, 1971. The film is a pixilation spoof of ''Sergeant Preston of the Yukon ''Challenge of the Yukon'' is an American radio adventure series that began on Detroit's WXYZ and is an example of a Northern genre story. The series was first heard on January 3, 1939. The title changed from ''Challenge of the Yukon'' to '' ...''. External links * 1972 films American animated short films Stop-motion animated short films Royal Canadian Mounted Police in fiction Pixilation films 1972 animated films 1970s English-language films 1970s American films {{short-animation-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fresh Guacamole
''Fresh Guacamole'' is a 2012 American animated short film written and directed by PES (Adam Pesapane). The film was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 85th Academy Awards; at 1 minute and 40 seconds, it is the shortest film ever nominated for an Oscar. Distribution After being nominated for an Academy Award the film was released along with all the other 15 Oscar-nominated short films in theaters by ShortsHD. Overview The film uses the technique of pixilation and shows a man's hands (the hands are from PES himself) making guacamole out of familiar objects, which become different items whenever they are cut, often depending on (unspoken) puns. For example, a baseball is cut in half and then becomes a pile of dice while it is being diced. Each of the objects also resembles an ingredient actually used in an authentic guacamole recipe - a grenade with a maroon number 7 billiard ball pit resembles an avocado and pit respectively, a baseball resembles an onion, a red pin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret Adventures Of Tom Thumb
''The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb'' is a 1993 British independent stop-motion/pixilation adult animated science-fantasy dystopian adventure horror film directed, written, shot and edited by Dave Borthwick, produced by bolexbrothers studio and funded by Richard Hutchinson, BBC, La Sept and Manga Entertainment, which also distributed the film on video. The story follows the tiny Tom Thumb as he is abducted from his loving parents and taken to an experimental laboratory, and his subsequent escape. He discovers a community of similarly sized people living in a swamp, who help him on his journey to return to his parents. The film is largely dialogue-free, limited mostly to grunts and other non-verbal vocalisations. Plot Inside an artificial insemination factory, a mechanical wasp hovering around the establishment is crushed to death by the machinery's gears, causing its vitals to drop into one of the jars on the conveyor belt. This results in a woman giving birth to a thumb-siz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animation
Animation is a method by which image, still figures are manipulated to appear as Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent cel, celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most animations are made with computer-generated imagery (CGI). Computer animation can be very detailed Computer animation#Animation methods, 3D animation, while Traditional animation#Computers and traditional animation, 2D computer animation (which may have the look of traditional animation) can be used for stylistic reasons, low bandwidth, or faster real-time renderings. Other common animation methods apply a stop motion technique to two- and three-dimensional objects like cutout animation, paper cutouts, puppets, or Clay animation, clay figures. A cartoon is an animated film, usually a short film, featuring an cartoon, exaggerated visual style. The style takes inspiration from comic strips, often featuring anthropomorphi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stop Look And Listen (film)
''Stop Look and Listen'' is a color, 10-minute 1967 comedy film written, produced, directed by, and starring Len Janson and Chuck Menville. The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1968 (Best Short Subject, Live Action). Technique It was mostly filmed in San Fernando Valley in pixilation ( stop-motion photography). Summary The film generates comedy by contrasting the safe and dangerous styles of two drivers who drive in the way made famous by Harold Lloyd: by sitting in the street and seeming to move their bodies as though they were automobiles. See also *List of American films of 1967 This is a list of American films released in 1967. '' In the Heat of the Night'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture. A-D E-H I-P R-Z Documentaries Other See also * 1967 in the United States External links 1967 filmsat the Int ... References External links * * {{tcmdb title, 641149, Stop Look and Listen BFI 1967 films 1967 comedy films 1967 short films Animated film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Food (film)
''Food'' ( cs, Jídlo) is a 1992 Czech animated short film directed by Jan Švankmajer that uses claymation and pixilation. It examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Plot Breakfast A man enters a room, sits down, and brushes the previous diner's leftovers onto the floor. Across from him sits another man with a placard attached to a chain hanging around his neck. The diner stands up and reads the placard one line at a time and follows the instructions. He puts money down the man's throat and pokes him in the eye. The man's shirt unbuttons itself, and a dumbwaiter rises up into where the man's chest should be. The diner takes his food, and punches the man in the chin with his third knuckle for his utensils. When he is done eating, he kicks the man's shin for a napkin. After wiping off his mouth, the diner convulses, and then goes limp. The man now comes to life, stretches, and places the placard on the former diner. He stands and puts anoth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wizard Of Speed And Time
''The Wizard of Speed and Time'' is a 1988 low-budget feature film written, directed, and starring animator Mike Jittlov, as well as a 1979 16 mm short film, also by Jittlov. 1979 short film In the original short film, a young man in a green wizard costume runs throughout America at super speed, much like the superhero The Flash. Along the way, he gives a hitchhiking woman (Toni Handcock) a swift lift to another city and gives golden stars to other women who want a trip themselves. He then slips on a banana peel and comically crashes into a film stage, which he then brings to life in magical ways. Jittlov is a special effects technician, and he produced all of the special effects in the film himself, many through stop motion animation. This short film originally was shown as a segment of an episode of ''The Wonderful World of Disney''. The episode was called "Major Effects" and was aired to coincide with the release of Disney's '' The Black Hole'' in 1979. The film segm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Menville
Chuck Menville (April 17, 1940 – June 15, 1992) was an American animator and writer for television. His credits included '' Batman: The Animated Series'', '' Land of the Lost'', ''The Real Ghostbusters'', ''The Smurfs'', '' Star Trek: The Animated Series'', and ''Tiny Toon Adventures''. Pixilation: career in 1960s and 1970s Menville was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but moved to Los Angeles at the age of 19 with aspirations of becoming an animator. There, he got a job with Walt Disney Productions and served as an assistant on the 1967 film ''The Jungle Book''. Unhappy with the climate at Disney, Menville soon branched out into writing, and began a long working partnership with his friend Len Janson. During the mid-1960s, Menville and Janson co-produced a series of short live-action films, among them the Academy Award-nominated '' Stop Look and Listen'', an innovative stop-motion pixilation experiment in which the main characters "drive" down city streets in invisible cars. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Kounen
Jan Kounen (born Jan Coenen; 2 May 1964) is a Netherlands-born French film director and producer. In France, he is mostly known for his films '' Dobermann'' (1997), '' Blueberry, l'experience secrete'' (2004) and '' 99 francs'' (2007). Outside France he is better known for his interest in Shipibo-Conibo culture and shamanism, with which he became familiar during his trips to Mexico and Peru, and for directing some music videos of which, the most notable are the four videos he did for the English pop group Erasure in the 1990s (including three for the project Abba-esque) : ''Lay all your love on me'' (1992), ''Voulez-vous ''(1992), ''S.O.S.'' (1992) and ''Always'' (1994). Biography After studying at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Nice, where he directed his first short films, Jan Kounen began work as assistant operator and director of music videos and documentaries. In 1989, he made the short film ''Gisele Kerosene'', crowned Grand Prix in the category of Avoriaz Fantastic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
