Pixilation

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Pixilation is a stop motion technique in which live actors are used as a frame-by-frame subject in an animated film, by repeatedly posing while one or more frame is taken and changing pose slightly before the next frame or frames.^{[citation needed]} This technique is often used as a way to blend live actors with animated ones in a movie.^{[citation needed]}

Early examples of this technique are included in Segundo de Chomón's Cuisine magnétique^[1] and Hôtel électrique, both from 1908, and Émile Cohl's 1911 movie Jobard ne peut pas voir les femmes travailler (Jobard cannot see the women working).^{[citation needed]}

The term is widely credited to Grant Munro (although some say it was Norman McLaren) and he made an experimental movie named "Pixillation", available in his DVD collection "Cut Up – The Films of Grant Munro."^[2]