Frame by Frame Stop Motion by Gasek, Tom -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Halftitle Title Copyright Contents Dedication and Acknowledgments 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