Frame-By-Frame Stop Motion

The Guide to Non-Puppet Photographic Animation Techniques
3. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-81744-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

This third edition of Frame-by-Frame Stop Motion is an up-to-date review of non-puppet stop motion techniques. The reader will not only learn how to execute these techniques through descriptive chapters but also experience them with the carefully designed exercises included at the end of this book. There are many other aspects of filmmaking including design, sound, cinematography, lighting, and animation principles that make this a thorough study in non-puppet stop motion. The animation of people, objects (not designed to be animated), light painting, time-lapse, and downshooting are popular approaches to animation practice around the globe. This edition includes insights from the author, an experienced stop motion puppet and non-puppet animator, as well as filmmakers from Japan to Eastern Europe to Argentina and North America. There are many aspects to this edition that should appeal not only to animators but also to photographers, live-action filmmakers and those interested in expanding their repertoire in the filmmaking arena. Included are examples of filmmaking critiques and a wide variety of applications of photographic animation. Frame-by-Frame Stop Motion is the only resource of its kind.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gasek, Tom

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung Digitale Animation
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung Digitales Video

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: What are the Possibilities?, Chapter 2: Shooting Frame by Frame, Chapter 3: Pixilation, Chapter 4: Time Lapse, Chapter 5: Cinematography, Lighting and Composition, Chapter 6: Objects, People & Places, Chapter 7: The Multiplane Down-shooter, Chapter 8: Collage (The Digital Advantage), Chapter 9: Visual Rhythm, Chapter 10: A Sense of Drama, Chapter 11: Massaging Frames in the Edit, Chapter 12: Off to the Market

Über Autor(innen)

Tom Gasek is a Professor Emeritus at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) where he taught in the School of Film and Animation for 19 years. He worked as a professional director and animator for 26 years prior to teaching with animation credits that include Aardman Animations’ The Wrong Trousers and Chicken Run as well as Laika’s Coraline. He operated several small studios of his own including the award-winning, Sculptoons in San Francisco. Gasek is a Fulbright Specialist and wrote the only book on "non-puppet stop motion." He just completed his third independent film called 4 @ 60, which includes "non-puppet" stop motion techniques.