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n. (plural of pixel English)

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Pixels (2010 film)

Pixels is a 2010 French animated short film written and directed by Patrick Jean. It is about an invasion of New York City by classic 8-bit video game characters, such as those from Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Tetris, Arkanoid and others.

The film won the Annecy Crystal for Best Short Film at the 2011 Annecy International Animated Film Festival.

Pixels (2015 film)

Pixels is a 2015 American science-fiction action comedy film produced by Columbia Pictures, 1492 Pictures and Happy Madison Productions. The film was directed by Chris Columbus. Its screenplay was written by Tim Herlihy and Timothy Dowling, with a screen story penned by Tim Herlihy and based on French director Patrick Jean's 2010 short film of the same name. The film features computer animated video games characters, special effects, and stars Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Josh Gad, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Monaghan, Brian Cox, Ashley Benson, and Jane Krakowski. The film's plot has extraterrestrials misinterpreting video-feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war, and invading Earth using technology inspired by games such as Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Galaga, Centipede and Donkey Kong. To counter the alien assault, the United States hire former arcade champions to lead the planet's defense.

Principal photography on the film began in 2014 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was released in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D in 2015. Despite receiving mainly negative reviews, the film grossed over $244 million.

Usage examples of "pixels".

I reached out, and my fingers passed through her arm: her flesh, crumbling into cuboid pixels, had the texture of dead leaves.

A triangular object, maybe ten, fifteen meters across-only a tiny white spot on the photos, a few pixels across at best.

Rydell had liked most was where you just went in and sort of sculpted things out of nothing, out of that cloud of pixels or polygons or whatever they were, and you could see what other people were doing at the same time, and maybe even put your stuff together with theirs, if you both wanted to.

He punched the Enter key and waited as the pixels slowly revealed a computer-aged version of Jesse Keys.

He flipped the VDU to sight seen, and watched the pixels dance in the search for more information.

Enveloped it The comet shattered with such violence, the pixels on the monitor screen exploded into white glare.