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Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation, 3rd Edition
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Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation, 3rd Edition

by Susannah Shaw
January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
248 pages
6h 34m
English
Routledge
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DOI: 10.1201/9781315771366-8

In the late 1970s, a new approach to animation was used at the BBC in Bristol (England), when a series was produced by Colin Thomas called Animated Conversations. Real conversations were recorded in their natural setting—for example, a hippy commune, a pub, or a dentist’s surgery. Pete Lord and David Sproxton at Aardman Animations chose a Salvation Army hostel—they then developed characters from this dialog and animated to it. Their film Down and Out created a lot of interest and the idea was then taken up by Channel 4 and a new series, called Conversation Pieces, was commissioned. Aardman directed a total of 10 pieces for this and the following Lip Sync series. It was for this series ...

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