Human Tetris.
Human tetris is a stop frame animation created entirely out of humans. Filmed in an auditorium, the classic arcade game is recreate almost perfectly. It is a really clever twist on a classic game. This video has inspired me to include retro game characters in my animation. The reason that these videos that contain retro games is because their simple graphics, lack of detail and bold colours make them easy to recreate using different mediums.
This sprite of Mario shows how easily the characters were made up, consisting of very rough edges, block colours and no details. I feel these can be created out of milk bottle tops ( the medium I have decided to use for my animation).
Pixels - Patrick Jean
Pixels is a stunning piece of animation. Set in New York, a TV is abandoned as rubbish, shortly after this pixels exploded out the TV and invade the city. It combined CGI and live action footage. The pixels then set out to destroy the city. Space invaders shoot at taxis, Breakout paddles destroy the Brooklyn Bridge and Pacman eats the subway system. As these things are destroyed they are turned into pixels, the transition from a real life object and the CGI pixelated version is seamless which makes animation truly beautiful. As Tetris takes out part of the Empire State building the pixels seem to resemble a kind of terrorist attack which makes it mildly controversial after the 2001 attacks but this doesnt take away from the piece.
