# animate! › Films › Animal Tragic by Tim Macmillan › tools & processes

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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, time-slice photography, digital compositing, human-animal relationships, urban life, violence, experimental short film, filmmaker, artist

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**Animal Tragic** a film by Tim Macmillan

2003, 6 min 28 sec

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#### process summary

The film incorporates a major digital development of Tim’s own analogue time-slice technique. Simultaneous 35mm film and stills of a momentary event are transformed by experimental FloMo software into a spatial vector map, from which a virtual camera can float freely in space around the ‘suspended’ scene.

**Animal Tragic** film, stills and other materials © Tim Macmillan 2003