Cracking animation / Peter Lord & Brian Sibley ; foreword by Nick Park.

By:

Lord, Peter, 1953-

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Thames & Hudson, 2010.Edition: New edDescription: 240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmISBN:

0500289069 (pbk.)
9780500289068

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

741.58 AAR

Contents:

The medium -- Basic needs : The camera ; The digital image and motion control ; A simple studio ; A complex studio ; The power of lighting -- Simple techniques : Simple clay animation ; Simple object animation ; Other animation techniques -- Models and modelmaking : Basic principles ; Making a sheep ; Gromit construction ; Wat construction ; Rex construction ; Preston -- Set design and making : Planning a set ; A straightforward set ; Matching sets to products ; A complex set ; Ingenuity and prop ; Special effects ; Advanced special effects -- Animation and performance : Movement ; Walk cycles ; Making movement believable ; Running and tumbling ; Action and reaction ; Special movement effects ; Expressions and gestures ; Speech and lip-sync -- CGI-computer generated imagery : Modelling figures and sets ; Rigging ; Animation ; Lighting and rendering -- Making a film : The role of the producer ; Thinking about a script ; Flash animation and the web ; Online games ; Creating a storyboard for Adam ; War story ; The Pearce sisters ; Morph ; Angry kid ; Creature comforts ; Shaun the sheep ; Timmy time ; Wallace and Gromit ; Chicken run ; Editing ; Sound and music -- A career in animation.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	741.58 AAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100424184

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From the creators of the wildly successful Wallace and Gromit films and Chicken Run, here is a unique guide to making your own 3-D (or stop-action) animation.

The book sets the achievements of Aardman Studios into the tradition of 3-D animation, which spans such Hollywood triumphs as King Kong and well-known characters like Godzilla. At the heart of the book is a guide to the process of 3-D animation today: a practical, fully illustrated, step-by-step description of how to create effective characters, a storyboard and sets, and then an entire film.

For this third edition, the introduction and the history of the medium have both been revised to incorporate the latest work by Aardman and others. All the CGI material has been augmented, updated, and integrated into the practical sections of the book. The "Making a Film" chapter is completely revamped to emphasize the difference in approach, structure, and technique when applied to scripting, characterization, short films, television, advertising, and feature films

The Aardman book of 3-D animation--Cover.

Previous ed. published as: Creating 3-D animation.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237), filmography (p. 236-237) and index.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Brian Sibley was born in London, England on July 14, 1949. He is author of over 100 hours of radio drama and has written and presented hundreds of radio documentaries, features and weekly programs including J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia, and Gormenghast, for which he won a Sony Radio Award. He has also written numerous books including The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy, Peter Jackson: A Film-Maker's Journey, The Disney Studio Story, Mickey Mouse: His Life and Times, The Land of Narnia, and Harry Potter Film Wizardry.

(Bowker Author Biography)