Monday, December 27, 2004
Very Late Book Review
Christmas present time. I really wanted this book when it first came out but bucks were tight at the time, something that happens in a two artist household.
That is the really cool thing about Christmas, the people that love you get you the things you really wanted but didn`t feel you should afford for yourself.
Anybody that knows me knows how crazy I am about Aardman Animation. This book is a kind of great catch-all, behind the scenes, how to, and history of animation book. It has everything including flipbook animations in the corners of the pages. I love that.
The history section goes into the English parts of animation history that are always, for some strange reason, overlooked by the writers on this side of the Atlantic. It is nice to read a book that knows William Friese-Greene.
Lots of nice behind the scenes shots and production pictures. Good section on how to do the tricks, the rain, grommet with the drill, armature shots, in short all the things you need to know to learn to do stop motion animation.
A great book that I have wanted for a long time. It is obviously still on the market because my wife found it for me somewhere. Once I am done reading it I will make a place for this book on my reference shelf right next to my copy of Don Dohler`s 1980 Stop Motion Animation.
Here comes the soapbox part, why can`t I find a school that will teach their students stop motion. I have been after a number of schools for a number of years. Come on guys, let me teach your students a stop motion class or seminar.
Everybody says that learning animation principals on the computer is very, very hard. Camel through the eye of a needle stuff. Traditional 2-D and 3-D (stop motion) are the best ways to learn to animate. In fact I feel stop motion teaches animation faster. For some reason none of the schools will teach stop motion, even the schools that still teach 2-D. End of soapbox.
¶ 9:06 AM
Christmas present time. I really wanted this book when it first came out but bucks were tight at the time, something that happens in a two artist household.
That is the really cool thing about Christmas, the people that love you get you the things you really wanted but didn`t feel you should afford for yourself.
Anybody that knows me knows how crazy I am about Aardman Animation. This book is a kind of great catch-all, behind the scenes, how to, and history of animation book. It has everything including flipbook animations in the corners of the pages. I love that.
The history section goes into the English parts of animation history that are always, for some strange reason, overlooked by the writers on this side of the Atlantic. It is nice to read a book that knows William Friese-Greene.
Lots of nice behind the scenes shots and production pictures. Good section on how to do the tricks, the rain, grommet with the drill, armature shots, in short all the things you need to know to learn to do stop motion animation.
A great book that I have wanted for a long time. It is obviously still on the market because my wife found it for me somewhere. Once I am done reading it I will make a place for this book on my reference shelf right next to my copy of Don Dohler`s 1980 Stop Motion Animation.
Here comes the soapbox part, why can`t I find a school that will teach their students stop motion. I have been after a number of schools for a number of years. Come on guys, let me teach your students a stop motion class or seminar.
Everybody says that learning animation principals on the computer is very, very hard. Camel through the eye of a needle stuff. Traditional 2-D and 3-D (stop motion) are the best ways to learn to animate. In fact I feel stop motion teaches animation faster. For some reason none of the schools will teach stop motion, even the schools that still teach 2-D. End of soapbox.
¶ 9:06 AM
