Stop-motion Animation - (Basics Animation) by Barry Jc Purves (Paperback)

About the Book

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

Book Synopsis

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 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.

Review Quotes

Defined as a book for beginners, its 200 pages offer a lot more - insights, a wide variety of worthy films, cultural references, creative stimuli, love and passion for animation.
Tsvika Oren, www.asifa.net (Association Internationale du Film d'Animation / International Animated Film Association)

If you are interested in stop-motion animation, this is where you want to begin, even by the end of the first chapter you will find yourself wanting to start experimenting with different ideas. This is not simply a book you will read once. As you grow as a film maker you will come back again and again, always finding something new to try, and always be left wanting to try more.
www.animatormag.com

This is the must-have book for the stop-motion animator who wants to learn what it is to be a professional.
Pike Baker, www.stopmotionmagazine.com

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.