pixelfuck
/ˈpɪksəlˌfɐk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I intend to give her a bit more definition in a couple of areas, but probably only through sculpting now. I want to keep her low-res enough that it'll be easy to pose and sculpt her without having to engage in whatever the polygon version of pixelfucking is."
- "God I’ve worked on every marvel movie since Guardians 2 and every movie in between and so I have some stories to tell. From 10 hour days/6 day weeks at low pay to being pixelfucked on throwaway shots. It was one of the main reasons I left the artist side of vfx."
- "Pixelfucking seems to be a guaranteed disease that an artist will catch if they work in the VFX industry. Symptoms include headaches, body aches, insomnia, mental breakdowns, generally horrible mental health, relocation every six months; becoming a digital nomad (a “Pixel Nomad”), spending long periods of time away from family and friends, living in hotels, working overtime, not getting paid for overtime work, always working overtime, not getting acknowledged at award ceremonies, work not being acknowledged in general, working with annoyingly absent directors and more!"
- "Poor management, misery and exploitation have become so commonplace across the industry that VFX artists have coined a term for the experience of working on a film or television series that is underbid, understaffed, subject to unreasonable, inflexible deadlines, and endless directorial nitpicking: “pixel fucked”."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈpɪksəlˌfɐk/