Stop-motion animation : frame by frame film-making with puppets and models / Barry J.C. Purves.
By: Purves, Barry [author.]
Series: Basics animation: Publisher: London : Fairchild Books, 2014Edition: Second editionDescription: 228 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 43093ISBN: 9781472521903 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Animation (Cinematography) | Cinematography -- Special effects | Stop-motion animation films | PhotographyDDC classification: 791.433 PUR LOC classification: TR897.6 | .P87 2014Summary: 'Stop-motion' teaches the skills required to develop as a creative stop-motion animator or articulated puppet maker. It explores how all the elements of film-making camera work, and how design, colour, lighting, editing, music and storytelling come together in this art form.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Stop-motion Animation explores how all the elements of film-making - camera work, design, colour, lighting, editing, music and storytelling - come together in this unique art form. With tips and suggestions to help you get the most out of your films, and with examples from some of the masters of the craft, Barry Purves shows how to make the most of the movement, characters and stories that typify stop-motion.With dozens of beautiful new examples from around the world, this new edition includes a project in each chapter, with pointers on finding a story and characters, developing a script and storyboard, constructing puppets and dealing with the practicalities of film-making. These projects combine to lead you through the creation of your first one-minute stop-motion animation.
Previous edition: Lausanne: AVA Academia, 2010.
Includes index.
'Stop-motion' teaches the skills required to develop as a creative stop-motion animator or articulated puppet maker. It explores how all the elements of film-making camera work, and how design, colour, lighting, editing, music and storytelling come together in this art form.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Chapter 1 What is stop-motion?
- The beginnings
- The illusion of movement
- Physicality
- A continuous performance
- Special effects Wholly animated films
- Project 1 Find your style
- Chapter 2 Focusing the idea
- Stories and themes
- Approaching the story
- A change of perspective
- Out of the mouths of talking umbrellas?
- Atmosphere and substance
- Economics
- Project 2 What's the story?
- Chapter 3 The puppets
- Telling the story with puppets
- The physical puppet
- Telling characteristics
- Stylised movement
- Replacements
- 3D printing
- Eyes
- Hands
- Puppet size
- Clay
- Other techniques
- Project 3 Find your leading man (or mouse)
- Chapter 4 Preparations
- Working with others
- Sets
- Costume
- Colour
- Project 4 Set the scene
- Chapter 5 Chapter Tools and techniques
- Practicalities
- The camera
- Apps and other low-cost options
- Lighting
- Sound
- Dialogue
- Special effects
- Editing
- Project 5 Setting up and getting started
- Chapter 5 Movement and performance
- Animating on the set
- Lively movement
- Helping the movement
- Performance
- Project 6 Make it read!
- Conclusion: A brief history of stop-motion
- Picture credits
- Acknowledgements
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