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Teaches the skills required to develop as a creative stop-motion animator or articulated puppet maker. This book explores how all the elements of film-making camera work, design, colour, lighting, editing, music and storytelling come together in this art form. It is useful to students who learn to use and exploit the particular types of movement.

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To say this book is a perfect companion for anyone interested in stop-motion at any level is a tremendous understatement...the wide range of photographic examples alone make this book a must have...I am very excited to find a book that would make for a perfect textbook should I ever teach again. - Mark Osborne, co-director of DreamWorks Animation's Oscar-nominated Kung Fu Panda. If you are interested in stop motion character animation - past, present or future - then Barry Purves' Basics Animation: Stop-motion is for you. Who better to guide us through the history of the medium, the techniques and process of filmmaking than master animator Purves (Screen Play) himself. - Jerry Beck, Cartoon Brew.

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Barry Purves is a stop-motion animator and director with more than thirty years' experience. His films have won more than 60 major international awards, including Grand Prix's, Best Director, Best Film, and Oscar and BAFTA nominations. He has been involved with such diverse works as The Wind in the Willows, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Chorlton and the Wheelies, Rupert Bear, Mars Attacks!, King Kong and Hamilton Mattress. Barry has held master classes in most of the major animation studios and colleges around the world and is the author of Stop Motion: Passion, Process and Performance.

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