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Author Gasek, Tom, author

Title Frame-by-frame stop motion : the guide to non-puppet photographic animation techniques / Tom Gasek
Edition Second edition
Published Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2017

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Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Author; 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; Expand Your Awareness ; The Intervalometer
Understand Your Subject Contrast ; Shutter Speeds ; Time-Lapse Rates and Formulas ; Time Lapse and Pixilation ; Motion Control ; Chapter 5: Cinematography, Lighting, and Composition; Cameras and Lenses ; Camera Controls ; Animated Lighting ; 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 Dimensional Objects ; Cutouts
Backgrounds 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 ; Chapter 13: Exercise 1 The Traveling Head; Chapter 14: Exercise 2 Rotating Human Subjects; Chapter 15: Exercise 3 2D/3D Handball; Chapter 16: Exercise 4 Animated Starburst Light Loop; Chapter 17: Exercise 5 Dropping Heads (Cutout); Chapter 18: Exercise 6 3-2-1 Countdown; Chapter 19: Exercise 7 Love at First Sight; Chapter 20: Exercise 8 Cycles; Chapter 21: Exercise 9 The Cartoon Punch; Index; A ; B ; C ; D ; E ; F ; G ; H ; I ; J ; K ; L ; M ; N ; O
P R ; S ; T ; U ; V ; W ; Z
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Animation (Cinematography)
Stop-motion animation films.
animations (visual works)
ART -- Film & Video.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Techniques -- Cinematography & Videography.
Animation (Cinematography)
Stop-motion animation films.
Form Electronic book
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