ABSTRACT
One of the gems of the genre is a tour-de-force pixilation starring animator Mike Jittlov that became part of the feature film The Wizard of Speed and Time. Pixilation, although done frame by frame, seems to be absolutely spontaneous and grows in action like a slapstick comedy while doing it, in front of as well as behind the camera. Mocap actually transforms humans into digital marionettes to serve naturalism in movement and animation. Norman McLaren discovered that one can not only animate objects frame by frame but real people, too. Wolf Koenig handled the photography and McLaren directed, but it would be Munro who termed the process pixilation. In 2011, Juan Pablo Zaramella, a filmmaker from Buenos Aires, used pixilation for his short film Luminaris, which imagines a world controlled by light: a young man who works in a factory that produces light bulbs tries to break out from this slave system.
