Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation, Second Edition (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation)

Shaw, Susannah

ISBN 10: 0240520556 / ISBN 13: 9780240520551

Published by Focal Press, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation, Second Edition (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation)
• Publisher: Focal Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0240520556
• ISBN 13: 9780240520551
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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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, you will learn about developing a story, making models, creating set and props, the mechanics of movement, filming, postproduction 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 'A Close Shave' among other films).

Review

"...a mine of information. This book gives an unrivalled detailed technical overview of the subject."--The Times Higher Education Supplement

"Don't attempt stop motion before you read this book! Susannah has covered everything in this no-nonsense approach to the industry."--Richard Goleszowski, director of Creature Comforts, Aardman Animations