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Author Purves, Barry.

Title Stop motion : passion, process and performance / Barry J.C. Purves.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; London : Elsevier/Focal, 2008.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  TR897.5 .P78 2008    Available  ---
Description xix, 347 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Note Includes index.
Summary Award-winning animator Barry Purves offers honest insight into the creative process of making stop motion animations with puppets and models, using his own classic films to illustrate every step along the way. Features advice on everything from the initial concept, to scriptwriting and costume through to directing, animating and postproduction.
Contents Cover -- TOC$Contents -- Principal Credits -- Stills -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Section 1: Passion -- CH$Chapter 1 Smoke and Mirrors -- The animation trick -- Pepper's ghost -- CH$Chapter 2 Evolving into Stop Motion -- Messing with time -- Physicality -- Texture -- CH$Chapter 3 Puppets -- Response to stop motion -- The puppet family -- The puppet and puppeteer -- CH$Chapter 4 Recurring Images -- Birds -- Swan Lake -- Puppets elsewhere -- CH$Chapter 5 Getting Personal -- Early animation -- Attempts at acting -- Section 2: Process -- CH$Chapter 6 Ideas and Storytelling -- Starting somewhere -- A different perspective -- Narrative structure and artifice -- CH$Chapter 7 Shaping Ideas -- Next -- Screen Play -- Rigoletto -- Achilles -- Gilbert and Sullivan -- CH$Chapter 8 Different Techniques -- Replacement puppets -- Pixilation -- Cross-over techniques -- Cut-outs -- Sand -- Claymation -- Personal approaches -- CH$Chapter 9 Preparation -- Storyboards, animatics, previz -- Sets and design -- Using the camera -- Water -- Props -- Gilbert and Sullivan - The Very Models -- Colour -- Costume -- Visual concepts -- Section 3: Performance -- CH$Chapter 10 Getting Moving -- Being an animator -- Film grammar -- Acting -- Scale -- Walking -- Body language -- Pushing the puppet's laws -- Hands-on -- CH$Chapter 11 On the Set -- Securing a puppet -- Letting a gesture read -- Shape of movements -- Physical quirks -- Hard things to animate -- On the studio floor -- CH$Chapter 12 Using the Body -- Silent comedy and mime -- Falls -- Jerky movements -- The illusion of movement -- Dance -- The role of puppets -- CH$Chapter 13 Production -- Designing puppets to act -- Voices -- Eye acting -- Shakespeare -- Puppets for Screen Play -- Puppets for Rigoletto -- Staging -- Rushes -- Editing -- Music -- Series -- Feature films -- Framing -- CH$Chapter 14 Directing -- Directors -- Directing Gilbert and Sullivan -- Favourite films -- CH$Chapter 15 Widening the Scope -- Animation in a bubble -- Festivals -- Theatre work -- Effect on people's lives -- Extreme puppets -- Transference -- CH$Chapter 16 Finale -- Career -- IDX$Index
Genre/Form Animation (Cinematography)
ISBN 9780240520605 paperback
0240520602 paperback