Basics Animation – serie

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.

The various tools available to the novice and professional alike have also broadened the pallet of the animator so that the boundaries between media have blurred. "Basics Animation: Digital Animation" will look at the history of the medium charting its progress with references to specific examples, which demonstrate the growth and development of the form over the last 50 years. With contributions from innovators and pioneers in the medium to present day practitioners in the cinema, game, and television industries, "Digital Animation" will introduce and examine some of the key aspects involved in producing digital animation.