chapter 1
introduction – playing God
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You want to captivate people. It doesn't come with just technique, it's about putting yourself inside that character. It's like slowing down your brain and all of a sudden you are that puppet and you move how that puppet moves.
Guionne Leroy, animator on Max & Co,Chicken Run, Toy Story
what is stop motion?
If you want to make great animation, you need to know how to control a whole world: how to make a character, how to make that character live and be happy or sad. You need to create four walls around them, a landscape, the sun and moon – a whole life for them. But it's not just playing dolls – it's more like ...
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