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and get an audience to understand your point. The audience can understand
the empathized point and not necessarily feel directly or personally targeted
by the subject matter. This is true even in pixilation, the animation of humans,
since the movement is unreal or unnatural.

Fig 2.2 a production still from The Human Skateboard
for Sneaux Shoes, directed by peS. Courtesy of PES © 2007. Fig 2.1 image from Meat! , Lindsay Berkebile, 2010.

Fig 2.3 image (pig head) from Off-Line , tom gasek, © 2009.

There are many ways to approach ideas, and the subject is a topic unto
itself. The important thing to remember is what you want to say, who your
audience is, and how your idea can be clearly expressed through animation.
The great Czech master Jan Svankmajer approaches ideas and process in a
less formal way.

“I try to work spontaneously, I let the creative process open to chance and
automatism.”