This is an example of Pixiallation animation i found on Youtube.com.

Pixiallation animation: This is a stop motion animation used b y actors, while posing and taking shots frame by frame, while slowely changing pose. Eventually the actor/actress will seem like a stop motion puppet.

Aimators that have used this technique are Mike jittovs who made a short film called 'The wizard of speed and time', Norman McLarens who made the film 'A Chairy Tale' and Chuck Menville and Len Jansons short films 'Visciouse Cycles, Blaze Glory and Sergeant Swell of the mounties'. There are much more animators that use this type of animation around the world.

I think this type of animation is much more simpler then drawn animation, because the amount of frames you have to make to create a 30min production is very long. However this animation consists of one actor moving around and being creative.

Cut Out animation

This is an example of Cut Out animation that i have found on youtube.com.

Cut out animation: is an animation technique that is used from 2D shapes such as paper, stiff fabric or photographs, the characters and backrounds are made from these materials.

The earliset cut out animation was made by Quirino Cristiani in Argentina. Today Cut out animation is made by useing computers using scanned images or vector graphics.

Vector graphics is using Geomatrical primitives like points, lines , shapes or polygons, which all come from mathmatical equations.

Famouse artists who use this technique are Noburu Ofuji who createed the Thieves of Baghdad, The Adventures of Prince Achmed by Lotte Reiniger, L'armata Brancaleone an italian film animated by Emanuele Luzatti and theres many more.

Cut out animation is simpler then drawn animation, because this type of animation only consists of using different shapes and sizes made from different materials, which is definatly more simpler then drawn animation which has to have many frames and very detailed drawing.

This is a claymation that me and my classmates made, we had to mould some plastercine into different shapes and sizes and had to move them around to make this claymation.

Claymation animation: This type of animation is made by using any type of moulding material such as plastercine, clay or dough. A claymation animation is an animation with a backround and characters that are deformable, many famouse childrens movies or TV series are made using this.

Loads of Famouse animators have used this technique. They are 'Otmar Gutman' who created the famouse childrens series 'Pingu', 'Cosgrove Hall' who created the famouse british series 'Fifi the Flower Tots' and lastly 'Wallace and Gromit' created by 'Nick Park', and many more.

What is good about claymation art is that you can make anything with it, you can mould it in to anyshape, and you can move it around. However there are a couple of bad things to it aswell, you can not stretch it too much it will rip and the parts can fall off. You also can not make it look like it is flying or floating, but there are ways an animator can figure out for it to do so.