Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation, 2nd Edition

chapter 3

getting animated

chaptersummary

•   animating familiar objects as a first approach •   setting up for the first time •   notes on movement •   timing: single frame or double frame? •   squash and stretch •   the dope sheet/X-sheet •   planning

I began making films as a teen on my own in the late seventies. I never attended any kind of film school. I worked in Super 8 and managed over the years to make a series of short, rough and cheap films. Learning to pull off good animation was my main motivation. I soon came to realize that it was important to make a complete film, not just a string of pointless animation tests that no one would want to watch. Then the clay characters became actors telling a story and it all was much more ...