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Stop-motion Animation

Frame by Frame Film-making with Puppets and Models
By Barry JC Purves
Series: Basics Animation
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Stop-motion Animation by Barry JC Purves delves into the intricate fusion of filmmaking elements—camera work, design, colour, lighting, editing, music, and storytelling—that create this unique art form. The book offers practical tips and examples from masters, guiding readers through the movement, characters, and stories that define stop-motion animation. The latest edition includes worldwide examples and hands-on projects in each chapter, helping readers develop stories, scripts, storyboards, puppet construction, and filmmaking techniques, culminating in creating a one-minute stop-motion animation.
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This book is ideal for beginner and intermediate filmmakers, animation students, and anyone passionate about learning professional stop-motion animation techniques.

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A beautiful introduction to a much-loved art form, this book explores camerawork, characterization, colour, lighting, editing, music and storytelling in stop-motion animation.

A beautiful introduction to a much-loved art form, this book explores camerawork, characterization, colour, lighting, editing, music and storytelling in stop-motion animation.

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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 JC 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.

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  • Stop-motion Animation
    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 JC Purves shows how to make the...
    By Barry JC Purves
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Praised as essential reading for beginners and professionals alike, the book is lauded for its insights, cultural references, and passion for animation by Tsvika Oren of the International Animated Film Association. Pike Baker of Stop Motion Magazine calls it a must-have for anyone aspiring to professional stop-motion animation. Animator Magazine notes it as a continually valuable resource that inspires experimentation, while Cartoon Brew appreciates Barry Purves' expert guidance through the medium's history and techniques.

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ISBN: 9781501353796

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 March 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Illustration: 200 colour illus

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 172.0mm

Height: 252.0mm

Weight: 440g

Pages: 224

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About the Author

Barry Purves is an English animator, director and writer of puppet animation television and cinema and theatre designer and director, primarily for the Altrincham Garrick Playhouse in Manchester. Known as one of Britain's most celebrated animators on account of his six short films, each of which has been nominated for numerous international awards (including Academy Award and British Academy Film Awards nominations), he has also directed and animated for several television programs and over seventy advertisements, title sequences and animated insert sequences.

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