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    The best book on the art of stop-action animation and a must-have for animators and animation fans. From the creators of the wildly successful Wallace and Gromit films and Chicken Run, here is a unique guide to making your own 3-D (or stop-action) animation.
    The book sets the achievements of Aardman Studios into the tradition of 3-D animation, which spans such Hollywood triumphs as King Kong and well-known characters like Godzilla. At the heart of the book is a guide to the process of 3-D animation today: a practical, fully illustrated, step-by-step description of how to create effective characters, a storyboard and sets, and then an entire film.

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    The Aardman Studios in Bristol are without doubt the b, ggest success story in the new wave of British animation. Founded by Peter Lord and Dave Sproxtcon. their achievement in creating such characters as Morph.Wallace and Gromit and Shaun tne Sheep has oeen rewarded Dy worldwide fame througn unparalleled success in tne Academy Awards. No fewer than eight Aardman films haw been nominated for Academty Awards. Nick Park at Aardman has received four Oscars for The Wrong Trousers. A Close Shave and The Curse of the Were-rabbit. all featuring tne dqaracters Wallace and Gromit. and for the first Creature Comforts.
    The first part of this book. written by Brian Sibley, sets Aardman's achievements and the history of the studio into the tradttion of 3-D animation which soars such Hollywood triumphs as King Kong and asan and the Argonauts, as well as suck well-known characters as Godzilla.At the heart of the book is an idlspensable guide by Peter Lord. co-founder of Aardman to the process of 3-D animation culminating in a Dractical. fully illustrated step-by-step oescription of how to create effective characters. animate them conwnangly, create a storyoboard and sets and then a complete film. This new and uodated edition includes an entirely new cnaDter on CG1 ana the text has been revised tnro.ugnout to retied recent tecnnological advances and to exolore the ways in which new media use animation
    There is no other booK that orov{des this nformation in such telling and entertaining aeta, making it possible for everyone to create their own 3-D anmnated classic For fans ano enthusiasts of a, ages. as wetl as for serious stuaents of animation. this book is not only a lot of fun - it is essential reading.

foreword
introduction
the medium
one basic needs
  The Camera
  The Digital Image and Motion Control
  A Simple Studio
  A Complex Studio
  The Power of Lighting
two simple techniques
  Simple Clay Animation
  Simple Object Animation
  Other Animation Techniques
three models and modelmaking
  Basic Principles
  Making a Sheep
  Gromit Construction
  Wat Construction
  Rex Construction
  Preston
four set design and making
  Planning a Set
  A Straightforward Set
  Matching Sets to Products
  A Complex Set
  Ingenuity and Props
  Special Effects
  Advanced Special Effects
five animation and performance
  Movement
  Walk Cycles
  Making Movement Believable
  Running and Tumbling
  Action and Reaction
  Special Movement Effects
  Expressions and Gestures
  Speech and Lip-sync
six CGI-computer generated imagery
  Modelling Figures and Sets
  Rigging
  Animation
  Lighting and Rendering
seven making a film
  The Role of the Producer
  Thinking about a Script
  Flash Animation and the Web
  Online Games
  Creating a Storyboard for Adam
  War Story
  The Pearce Sisters
  Morph
  Angry Kid
  Creature Comforts
  Shaun the Sheep
  Timmy time
  Wallace and Gromit
  Chicken Run
  Editing
  Sound and Music
a career in animation
filmography & bibliography
index