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Creating 3-D Animation: The Aardman Book of Filmmaking

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This book provides an insight into animation, allowing an early start with advanced techniques. A must have if just to look how they did their great films.

This book was excellent! It saved me from totally [messing] up a research project on Animation I am doing. Though they only describe how they really make their professional films, and how to do it with stuff like their custom armatures and foam latex, which i had NO WAY to get my hands on, It helped overall.

This is a great book for anyone interested in 3D animation. There is alot about the history of animation with clay and puppets. Included is info on cameras, lighting, sets, and how to build characters in clay. Learn about movement of characters and see great pictures of Wallace and Gromit being built as well as other short films. Get "Chicken Run Hatching the Movie" book too. You'll love it.

This is one of the finest books on clay animation and stop action filmmaking. Hits right to the heart of Aardman studios art!

For anyone interested the process of stop-motion animation, whether a fan, or a would-be professional. Lots of great pictures, tips on lighting and cameras. The photos show how well detailed the models are, and the models themselves can provide inspiration to model makers of all kinds.

This was a great book for people interested in puppet animation. It goes through History, Making models and sets, what camera's are best to use and little hints if you are having lighting problems, keeping puppets standing up e.t.c. If you want to get an animating book this is the one to get.

... and better! This book has presented itself as the answer for the lack of books about stop-motion animation. It is sad that by doing that it has killed the oportunity for any others to appear about this subject. Also, I am an animation student, so for me this book should be like a bible, unfortunately, it is too superficial.

This book is just essential for those who have been dabbling in claymation and not quite sure how to take get it right. For example my younger daughter never knew that there were wire frames inside and howled with laughter when she realised. For younger children who have been using clay at primary/junior school and want to use this format to make a short animation film it was perfect. Any more information would have been too much. However I would recommend that an 'advanced' book is projected right away as one does begin to seek new challenges with this format. Still Excellent.

absolutley a MUST have for animators of all ages...it has helped tremendously, i also recomend the encyclopedia of animation which is also a great influence on me as an animator!

peace! mike

We spent many thousands of $$ and nearly two years of trial & error to learn what these gentlemen have put into print. Our entire crew studied every photo in detail and we held workshops on what we learned. Yes, we adopted every idea that we had yet to learn. Hats off to our mentors in England! Karl Williamson, KaViar Studios