INI100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Pixilation, Norman Mclaren, Cinematic Techniques
28 Apr 2016
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Animation in relation to documentary and avant-garde film. Unlike documentary and avant-garde film, animation does not tend toward any particular form, be it narrative or non-narrative. Instead it is distinguished by the processes involved in its construction. Animation typically involves at least one of the following two attributes: The presentation of imagery that has no real-world status beyond the filmic universe (examples to be discussed: drawn, cut-out, computer, direct, clay, and puppet/model anima- tion). The creation of movement through a succession of individual static images (a salient term to be presented: pixillation). For this reason it can be understood as the fullest expression of a tradition of filmmaking pioneered by george m li s, the magician-cum-filmmaker responsible for a trip to the moon (1902), among hundreds of other shorts. Filmmaker norman mclaren summed up the essence of animation well when he claimed, animation is not the art of drawings that move, but rather the art of movements that are drawn.
