2D and Stop Motion

While exploring different ways to incorporate different styles of animation into our pixilation, I had an idea that was similar to the Augdemented Reality videos, in the we could physically add cell animation into the pixielation as it is shot frame by frame. 

The John Lewis Christmas advert from a couple years ago did something very similar to that, in that they created a film by animating cell 2D animation and printing out the physical images and placing them on a stop motion set.

The style of animation used in this short is very stylised as they had a Disney animator to help, I was thinking for our film we could use more of a style used in Augdemented Reality, however, the concept is really clever. 

I believe this is the first time this style of animation, incorporating 2D and stop motion has been done before. It is a technique that adds a real sense of depth into the animation, and although we will be filming our pixielation on the floor so we wont get that 3D effect of the background, however, it might make for an interesting contrast of animation styles.