Frame-By-Frame Stop Motion

The Guide to Non-Puppet Photographic Animation Techniques
3. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-83539-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

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

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 film making and stop-motion animation continues to influence media and culture with its 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 offer not only inspiration but also help readers learn how to apply skills and new applications. The companion website offers further instruction, recommended films, tools and resources for both the novice and the expert.

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 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 previous 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” for Focal Press. He just completed his third independent film called 4@60 , which includes “non-puppet” stop motion techniques.