Pixilation - Frame-by-Frame Stop Motion: The Guide to Non-Traditional Animation Techniques - page 44

Fig 3.13 guides for light painting.
bright and moving, leaves a strong streak of color (if you use colored lights)
that creates a drawn image on the frame. Some artists create images freehand
for every frame. It is important to know the shape being drawn and to be able
to repeat it or potentially change that image frame to frame like any animation.
You can have a person or cutout of the shape you want to draw as a guide
when you light paint, if you need that kind of consistency.
New approaches to light painting include using iPads as the source of light.
By predetermining certain shapes and colors, the light painters can move in
the dark with their iPads in hand. The iPad image changes frame to frame, and
the movement of the painter holding the iPad and a long exposure allows
words and more distinctive shapes to be extruded exposure by exposure.
Fig 3.14 an ipad held in the dark to form a distinctive shape.
The final area of pixilation I want to cover is what I call object animation .
This is very close to model animation and is treated in a similar fashion. The
main difference is that the objects have little or no manipulation performed
on them. In puppet or model animation, sculpting, armature fabrication,
molding, painting, and a whole series of processes are involved before that
model is put in front of the camera. In object animation, usually, very little is
done to the object. The animation of an object, how it is moved, is the way
that expression and storytelling is achieved with this technique.
One of the most successful contemporary artists in this area is an American
animator who calls himself PES. Although not trained in animation, PES