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Frame by Frame Stop Motion : NonTraditional Approaches to Stop Motion Animation.

In a world that is dominated by computer images, alternative stop motion techniques like pixilation, time-lapse photography and down-shooting techniques combined with new technologies offer a new, tangible and exciting approach to animation. With over 25 years professional experience, industry veter...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gasek, Tom
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Independence : CRC Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication and Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1: What Are the Possibilities?
  • Creating Magic
  • Silent Films and Beyond
  • Stop Motion and Its Various Faces
  • CHAPTER 2: Shooting Frame by Frame
  • Technique to Serve the Idea
  • Preproduction
  • Equipment and Setting Up
  • CHAPTER 3: Pixilation
  • Take Advantage of the Medium
  • Who Is the Director?
  • Humor
  • Shooting on Twos, Fours, and More
  • Variations on Pixilation
  • The Moving Camera
  • CHAPTER 4: Time-Lapse Photography
  • Expand Your Awareness
  • The Intervalometer
  • Understand Your Subject
  • Contrast
  • Shutter Speeds
  • Time-Lapse Rates and Formulas
  • Time-Lapse Photography and Pixilation
  • Motion Control
  • CHAPTER 5: Cinematography, Lighting, and Composition
  • Cameras and Lenses
  • Camera Controls
  • Lighting for Animation
  • Compositional Beginnings and Ends
  • CHAPTER 6: Objects, People, and Places
  • People, Objects, and Rigging
  • Organic and Nonorganic Objects
  • Shooting Safe Zones
  • CHAPTER 7: The Multiplane Downshooter
  • A Stand of Your Own
  • Lighting for the Downshooter
  • Clay, Sand, and Three-Dimensional Objects
  • Cutouts
  • Background
  • CHAPTER 8: A Sense of Drama
  • Live Action and Single Framing
  • Subtle and Broad Performance
  • Reference Film and the Cartoon
  • Look in the Eyes
  • CHAPTER 9: Rhythm and Flow
  • Let the Music Lead
  • Patterns of Movement
  • The Beat Goes On
  • CHAPTER 10: Collage (The Digital Advantage)
  • Planning a Collage
  • Match Lighting and Rotoscoping
  • Clean, Clean, Clean
  • The Chroma Key
  • CHAPTER 11: Massaging Frames in the Edit
  • Working the Frames
  • Impossible Perfection
  • File Management
  • Playback
  • CHAPTER 12: Exposure to the Market
  • Now What?
  • Record and Archive the Process
  • Websites and the Internet
  • Film Festivals
  • Ownership
  • A Few Thoughts.
  • Exercise 1: The Traveling Head
  • Exercise 2: Rotating Human Subjects
  • Exercise 3: 2-D/3-D Handball
  • Exercise 4: Animated Light Loop: The Bursting Star
  • Exercise 5: The Dropping Heads (Cutout)
  • Exercise 6: 3, 2, 1-Countdown
  • Exercise 7: Love at First Sight
  • Index.