Pinscreen animation is another style of stopmotion in it's self which creates a very strange but imaginative effect. Taking a screen filled with pins that are moveable you can adjust how much they protrude forward, lighting the screen from a side angle casts shadows on to a board. As you can imagine the process is extremely long and difficult, it's so bespoke you rarely ever see it. The equipment costs is high and it's labour intensive, there are only a few films known to date this show examples of this technique. However like all people we want things made easier so software has been developed to give this 'style' of animation at much lower production cost.
This style of animation can only be project on black, white or a monotone colour, this also depends on the light of the colour you are using otherwise they do not yield the desired results. Though with using pins you can imagine the amount detail possible coupled with adjustable shade. CEL animation just cannot achieve this level of detail which makes it rather unique.
As mentioned above there are not many examples of this style of work, however the internet is full of information and using YouTube I have come across one of the most known examples titles 'Mindscape' the video I'm using doesn't include the original soundtrack but that's not important. It was created by Jacques Drouin in 1976, of course he collaborated with other in improvisation.
The second video is an 'extremely' simplified version of the pinscreen technique built for commercial purposes. But you see how the actually mechanics of the animation work.
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