Pixelation

This is a pixelation animation we did for multimedia. It was hard for us to think of an idea initially. Our first idea was something in a grave which had no real edge over the norm idea of someone moving around in unusuall ways. So later we had the idea of doing a sillhouette which turned out to be a good and unique idea. Although this was good for us actually thinking of what we could do for shadows was hard.

This animation could be compared to media productions from the early movies and theatrical proformances dating back hundreds of years. Despite the fact that there are no feature length sillhouette movies, shadows play and important part in films. Used to emphasise mood or shape. Film Noir movies such as Double Indemnity make heavy use of shadow to give an almost artistic setting to the shot. On the other hand sillhouettes have made brief appearences in films such as Gremlins 2 as a comedy sketch. In this case some of the Gremlin characters have broken in to the projection room of a cinema and are making funny shadows with their hands. Theatrical uses of sillhouettes are more widely used such as Shadow Play puppets which is an ancient form of Chinese shadow puppetry, which is widely used in over 20 countries, but isnt as popular as it once was.