Stop-Motion (Basics Animation Book 4)

Purves, Barry

ISBN 10: 2940373736 / ISBN 13: 9782940373734

Published by Fairchild Books AVA, 2010

About this Item

Self-folding laminated card covers. 200pp. Colour illustrations throughout. Very gentle shelf wear else fine condition throughout. A guide to the particular qualities that make stop-motion unique in the field of animation, such as camera work, design, colour, story-telling etc. Learn how to do it, bringing together movement, characters and stories.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stop-Motion (Basics Animation Book 4)
• Publisher: Fairchild Books AVA
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2940373736
• ISBN 13: 9782940373734
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: N/A
• Seller catalogs:
  • Arts and Crafts
  • Art

About this title

Synopsis

Basics Animation: Stop-motion Animation teaches the skills required to develop as a creative stop-motion animator or articulated puppet maker. It explores how all the elements of film-making – camera work, design, colour, lighting, editing, music and storytelling – come together in this unique art form. Students will learn to use and exploit the particular types of movement, characters and stories that characterise stop-motion. The book is packed with tips and suggestions to help you get the most out of your own stop-motion films, accompanied by full-colour illustrations and case studies demonstrating how film-making masters through the years have used it in feature films, short films and TV series. Basics Animation: Stop-motion Animation also examines the evolution of stop-motion, from its almost accidental beginnings to a much-loved form of storytelling in its own right – one that continues to push boundaries after 110 years.

About the Authors

Barry Purves is a stop-motion animator and director with more than thirty years’ experience. His films have won more than 60 major international awards, including Grand Prix's, Best Director, Best Film, and Oscar nominations.

Barry Purves has been animating for more than thirty years and has been involved with such diverse works as The Wind in the Willows, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Choriton and the Wheelies, Rupert Bear, Mars Attacks!, King Kong and Hamilton Mattress. This is in addition to directing, animating and writing his own multi-award winning films. These include Next, Rigoletto, Achilles, Gilbert & Sullivan, and the Oscar-nominated Screen Play, all told with theatrical innovation, looking at familiar subjects from fresh perspectives.

Barry gives master classes around the world, his first book, Stop Motion: Passion, Process and Performance (Focal Press) was published in 2007 and a DVD of his collected films, Barry Purves: His Intimate Lives, was released in 2008 by Potemkine