Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation

by Susannah Shaw

To make great animation, you need to know how to control a whole 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.

264 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 22, 2003

Reviews

[Francine Plant · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book seems comprehensive, with many beautiful graphics-I only downgraded it because there's not much for the amateur, though if you want to learn professional modeling for stop-action It definitely does the trick. I like to learn ways of making do with what you have rather than aiming for ambitious expensive projects.