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Frame-By-Frame Stop Motion

The Guide to Non-Puppet Photographic Animation Techniques, Second Edition
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Frame-By-Frame Stop Motion by Tom Gasek delves into the enduring art of single frame film-making, exploring both classic stop motion techniques and innovative digital workflows. The book offers hands-on exercises, expert interviews, and practical tips to enhance skills in pixilation, time-lapse photography, motion control, and more. It also covers modern tools like smartphones, DSLR cameras, and software such as After Effects, making it a comprehensive guide for crafting dynamic stop motion films.
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This book is ideal for both novices and experienced filmmakers interested in stop motion animation, special effects, and experimental film-making techniques. It suits students, educators, and professionals seeking to deepen their understanding or expand their skill set with contemporary technology and creative approaches.

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Single frame filmmaking has been around as long as film itself. It is the ancestor to modern-day special effects and animation. Despite its age-old practice, single frame filmmaking and stop-motion animation continue to influence media and culture with their magic. Current advances in technology and classic stop motion techniques, such as pixilation, time-lapse photography, and down shooting, have combined to form exciting new approaches.

Tom Gasek’s Frame-By-Frame Stop Motion offers hands-on experience and various tricks, tips, and exercises to help strengthen skills and produce effective results. Interviews from experts in the field not only offer inspiration but also help readers learn how to apply skills and new applications. The companion website provides further instruction, recommended films, tools, and resources for both the novice and the expert.

Key Features

  • Features interviews with industry experts that offer inspiration and insight as well as detailed explanations of the inner workings of non-traditional stop motion techniques, processes, and workflows.
  • Applies professional stop motion techniques that have been taught and refined in the classroom and applied to leading stop motion films, exhibiting at South By Southwest, Cannes, and more.
  • Explores the stop motion opportunities beyond model rigs and puppetry. Re-visualises stop motion character movements, build downshooter rigs, and configures digital workflows with After Effect tutorials while creating dynamic, creative, and inspired stop motion films.
  • Offers new coverage of smartphones and their application in stop motion.
  • Covers motion control, Dragon Frame, evolution of timelapse, expanded light painting, DSLR cameras, and more.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781498780612

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 May 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: CRC Press Inc

Edition: 2nd edition

Illustration: 15 Line drawings, color; 11 Line drawings, black and white; 161 Halftones, color; 37 Halftones, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 444g

Pages: 249

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