1. plural of pixillation; a film or animation technique in which live actors or objects are photographed frame-by-frame and made to appear to move in jerky, unnatural ways
Usage: film and animation term; also spelled 'pixilation'
2. plural of pixillation; a state of being bewildered, confused, or whimsically eccentric
Usage: informal; archaic or rare

Examples

• The director used pixillations to create a surreal, dreamlike sequence in the experimental film.
• The animator studied various pixillations techniques to master the jerky movement effect.
• Early stop-motion pixillations required thousands of individual photographs to produce just a few seconds of footage.
• The artist's pixillations of everyday objects transformed them into something magical and strange.
• His pixillations with live actors created an unsettling, otherworldly quality to the performance piece.