In Peter Gabriel’s music video of “Sledgehammer”, there were
three different animation techniques. The techniques were Claymation,
Pixilation and Stop-motion animation.
Claymation is when each animated piece (background or
character) is made out of a workable material, manly plasticine. In the music
video, they used plasticine to model Gabriel’s face and frame by frame, move
the model slightly. They also add extra materials such as, hammer for hands and
legs on his face. They also do this to the background when adding a window or
changing colour from green to red.
Pixilation uses live actors as a frame by frame subject and
move vaguely frame by frame for movement. This technique has been used
throughout the majority of the music video using different props such as a
train set around Gabriel’s head or a roller coaster ride on a chalk board. 
Stop-motion animation is used on an object so it appears to
move on its own. The object can be both animate like a puppet or in-animatic
object like coins when used in animation. The music video used in-animate
object such as fruits to animate Gabriel’s face and slightly move the fruits to
match with Gabriel’s singing. They also used this with chicken meat to make it
dance.
All in all, in Peter Gabriel’s music video, “Sledgehammer”
the techniques all used different materials to animate. Claymation used
plasticise to add items like legs on face and to change the colour of the
background. Pixilation was used the most throughout the whole video and used
props like a chalkboard as a roller coaster ride. Finally, stop-motion
animation is used to animate inanimate objects like fruit and chicken to look
like it moves.
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