Pixilation
Stop-motion animation with people instead of puppets: actors hold still for each frame, so they can glide, float and slide without moving their feet.
The trick is older than the name, which came from the National Film Board of Canada, for the technique Norman McLaren and Grant Munro used in Neighbours (1952). Most accounts credit Munro with the word.
Actors pose, the camera takes a frame, they shift a little and pose again, so a person can skate across a lawn sitting on nothing. Jan Švankmajer uses it in Food (1992), PES built Western Spaghetti (2008) out of it, and Peter Gabriel's video for Sledgehammer (1986) animates Gabriel himself.
Films to start with
In the order they were made. Runtimes are approximate.
Nearby
Movements, forms and techniques that share filmmakers or methods with this one.
Stop-motion
Animation made by photographing objects or images one frame at a time, moving them a little between shots.
Experimental animation
Animation that breaks from the cartoon: new materials, new techniques, or subjects animation isn't supposed to touch.
Direct animation
Animation made straight onto the film strip, painted or scratched frame by frame, with no camera involved.