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pixilation, pixillation|pɪksɪˈleɪʃən|
Also pixylation.
[f. pixilated a.: see -ation.]
1. A technique used in theatrical and cinematographic productions, whereby human characters move or appear to move as if artificially animated; the effect produced.
1947Punch 5 Mar. 200/1 Those who, as I am, are made uncomfortable by material pixylation on the stage may take heart, for the Catherine who comes back from the midnight romp is no gauzy fay. 1953Q. of Film, Radio & Television VIII. 9 McLaren feels this kind of live-actor animation has considerable creative potentiality although he refers slightingly to it as the ‘pixillation’ technique. 1957Manvell & Huntley Technique Film Music iii. 167 By applying an animation technique to the movements of actors, he produced ‘pixilation’ and used it to tell a serious story—in Neighbours (Canada 1953). 1959Halas & Manvell Technique Film Animation xxv. 291 This technique of experimenting in the animation of the movements of live actors (called sometimes ‘pixilation’) accompanied by synthetic music and sound effects. 1971Concord Films Council Catal. 51/2 Yugoslavian experimental film in the pixilation technique. 1976Oxf. Compan. Film 438/1 McLaren here [sc. in Neighbours], and in Two Bagatelles (1952), used pixillation, ‘animating’ human actors. In Chairy Tale (1957) and Opening Speech (1960) the technique is applied humorously to inanimate objects. Ibid. 547/2 Pixillation, the use of a stop frame camera to speed up and distort the movement of actors, creating roughly the effect of animation with live people.
2. The state or condition of being pixilated (sense 1).
1960Spectator 6 May 677 Without pretentiousness and with no traces of pixilation and phoney Cornishness. |