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Stop motion : craft skills for model animation / Susannah Shaw ; modelmaking and animation sequences created and photographed by Cat Russ and Gary Jackson, ScaryCat Studio ; illustrations, Tony Guy and Susannah Shaw

Author
Shaw, Susannah
Published
Boston : Focal Press, 2004.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 206 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
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Contents
Ch. 1. Introduction : playing God -- ch. 2. Getting equipped -- ch. 3. Getting animated -- ch. 4. Keep it simple : developing your story -- ch. 5. Coat hangers for armatures : making your own model -- ch. 6. Model makers : the professionals -- ch. 7. Four walls and a sky : sets and props -- ch. 8. Sound advice -- ch. 9. The mechanics of movement -- ch. 10. The performance -- ch. 11. Filming -- ch. 12. Post production -- ch. 13. Getting the job : the business of animation.
Summary
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'
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ISBN
9780080498256 (electronic bk.)
0080498256 (electronic bk.)
9781136135095
113613509X
9780240516592
0240516591 (alk. paper)
9781136135101
1136135103
9781136135057
1136135057
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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