Pixilation Experiment

Here is the first 'Pixilation' animation we did as a group. Pixilation is taking lots of still photos or images and putting them all together to make an animation, its a technique where people are used as puppets.. For the planning I was not their as I had an exam however I found the idea very good. The idea was to do human tennis. The reason why we couldn't do real tennis is because its impossible to take all the pictures of a moving tennis ball. Instead we used Lauren as the ball, she was hit between Ashley and Chloe. The difficulties with this were that each person could only move a little and if they moved too much you had to start again. Also the location chosen for our animation wasn't the best since it was an area that people could and did walk through. I think despite this the animation was still good. We learnt to think creatively and to solve situations. A strength was the unique idea of human tennis, the use of Lauren as the ball and the greetings at the beginning and end which were entertaining. The weaknesses would have to be the location of the animation and the smoothness of the movements. If we were to re do this then I would choose a new sensible location and make sure the movements the people took were smaller and more pictures would be taken.