Animation Techniques
Pixilation:
This is taken from a simple pixilation exercise but makes good use of appearing/disappearing tricks possible with stop-motion,
This is much more involved and uses props and a set as well as people to make a short music video:
Commercial produced for television:
Sand on Glass and Oil on Glass
(using a lightbox):
The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend.
Sand on Glass. Caroline Leaf, Canadian Film Board
Carte Noire advert, “Steam”, sand on glass. Rebbeca Manley
Animation Outside
blu
Blu is an Italian artist from Bologna.
Clay / plasticine
Notice the way the animators here transform their objects between motions instead of being strict about being completely consistent. This is a nice example of the tension between transformation and translation in animation.
tma/svetlo/tma
Clay and Objects – Jan Svankmajer
Jan Švankmajer is a Czech filmmaker who has been making surrealist animated films since the 1960s.
Cutouts
Hedgehog in the Fog
When you think of ‘cut-out’ animation, which means using paper cut-outs as your animating materials, you might think of quite crude South Park style animation but it is also possible to achieve a high degree of subtlety with this method.
Yuri Norstein‘s films are made with multi-layered illustrated paper cutouts.
Artist as animator
Robert Breer
Robert Breer changed the way I thought about and understood animation. He was an artist who happened to use animation as an art form.
Digital Animation
Even when you use digital animation technologies the materials, media and techniques you use can be very diverse.
Zazoom 