Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation (Visual Effects and Animation Series) - Softcover

Shaw, Susannah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0240516591 ISBN 13: 9780240516592

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

To make great animation, you need to know how to control a whole world: how to make a character, how to make that character live and be happy or sad. You need to create four walls around them, a landscape, the sun and moon - a whole life for them. You have to get inside that puppet and first make it live, then make it perform. Susannah Shaw provides the first truly practical introduction to the craft skills of model animation. This is a vital book in the development of model animation which, following the success of Aardman's first full-length film 'Chicken Run',is now at the forefront of modern animation. Illustrated in full colour throughout you are shown step by step how to create successful model animation. Starting with some basic exercises, readers will learn about developing a story, making models, creating sets and props, the mechanics of movement, filming, post production and how to set about finding that elusive first job in a modern studio.

About this title

From the Back Cover

"To make great animation, you need to know how to control a whole world: how to make a character, how to make that character live and be happy or sad. You need to create four walls around them, a landscape, the sun and moon - a whole life for them. You have to get inside that puppet and first make it alive, then make it perform."

Susannah Shaw provides the first truly practical introduction to the craft skills of model animation.This is a vital book in the development of model animation which, following the success of Aardman's first full-length film 'Chicken Run',is now at the forefront of modern animation.

Illustrated in full colour throughout you are shown step by step how to create successful model animation. Starting with some basic exercises, readers will learn about developing a story, making models, creating sets and props,the mechanics of movement, filming,post production and how to set about finding that elusive first job in a modern studio.

Susannah Shaw is Programme Development Manager for the Animated Exeter festival. She was head of the Bristol Animation Course from 1996 to 2000 at the University of the West of England and former camera assistant at Aardman (working on 'Close Shave' among other films).

From the Inside Flap

* A full colour practical introduction to the craft skills of model animation
* Benefit from the advice of top international animators e.g. Nick Park and Tim Hittle
* The only book to provide all the skills and understanding a model animator needs to work in a modern studio

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0240516591
• ISBN 13: 9780240516592
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224