pixilation

noun

1. 1.A stop-motion technique where live actors are used as a frame-by-frame subject in an animated film, by repeatedly posing while one or more frame is taken and changing pose slightly before the next frame or frames.
2. 2.A blocky effect caused by enlarging a bitmap so that individual pixels can be distinguished.
3. 3.The obscuring or censoring of part of an image by reducing the resolution, resulting in a blocky blur.