New Book: Advanced Art of Stop Motion

Friday, 28 May 2010 21:16
Last Updated on Friday, 28 May 2010 21:48
Written by Marc Spess

Ken Priebe has been hard at work writing his latest book about stop motion titled: The ADVANCED Art of STOP-MOTION ANIMATION. The book is destined to keep the art in the spotlight once it comes out later this month.

Ken Priebe's new book 'The Advanced Art of Stop-Motion Animation' is off to the printers for release date of June 23rd, including a Foreward by Henry Selick!

Here is what you will find inside:

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[li]the first full documented history on 80 years of feature-length stop-motion puppet films, from 'Tale of the Fox' to 'Fantastic Mr. Fox'.[/li]

[li]new coverage of puppet-building techniques using plug-ins, silicone, rapid prototyping, replacements, and the inner workings of puppets by artists such as Dave Hettmer, Ron Cole and the Chiodo Bros. Uncle Creepy![/li]

[li]information on shooting with Digital SLR cameras, camera rigs, and stereoscopic 3D.[/li]

[li]information on animation techniques and tons of coverage on digital compositing and visual effects.[/li]

[li]8 new interviews with the following stop-motion artists:

-Mark Caballero, Seamus Walsh & Chris Finnegan of Screen Novelties
-Pete Kozachik, ASC
-Trey Thomas
-Bronwen Kyffin
-Larry Bafia and Webster Colcord
-Marc Spess
-Ryan McCulloch
-Justin and Shel Rasch[/li]

[li]AND...on the enclosed CD:

-QuickTime Animation Clips for studying animation principles, dialogue, and compositing, including 2 clips in 3D by Justin Rasch.

-2 additional Bonus Appendices in pdf format, with loads of content and pictures on...
~Stop-Motion Education (Courses at CalArts, Sheridan College, Academy of Art University, workshops by Jurgen Kling & Lee Skinner)[/li][/list]

~The Stop-Motion Animation Community online and in festivals, with URL links embedded to take you DIRECTLY to many amazing websites and production blogs.

Kens book is available for pre-order now at Amazon.com and can be found here.

If all goes as planned, as soon as we get our copy we will be interviewing Ken on a live broadcast. So make sure to subscribe if you'd like to get an e-mail reminder so you can participate in the chat here.

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written by mongothemonkfish, June 01, 2010

oh i might buy this it looks amazing also i just wanted to say that that isomer that was made at the top title really spectacular piece of work keep it up smilies/grin.gif

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written by Marc Hendry, June 02, 2010

It's really great that it's covering the high quality animation on both an independent(Ron and Justin's work) as well as features(Coraline's on that cover)
And the things that the description outlines just so happen to be exactly the things I want to learn about! smilies/grin.gif

I'll preorder it when I get some money to spare.

Ah he's got a new book now
written by LXA, June 04, 2010

I met Ken Priebe about 3 years ago. He gave me his copy of "the art of stop motion animation" and signed it. Great guy.

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written by charles a collins, June 06, 2010

does it have how to do in it to

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written by Marc Hendry, June 06, 2010

how to do what, Charles?

wondering
written by *charles, June 08, 2010

wondering will it show you step by step or just small bit of pieces of walking , working on building sets working with cardboards, meaning behind the scenes, i'm working with gi joe figures 12, stump on walking them with out stands they have away to put magnets in feet or something in that area
i quess

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written by Marc Spess, June 08, 2010

Hey Charles, you'd probably like the book we sell called Secrets of Clay Animation Revealed. It's in the online store. Kens first book also has a lot of basic tips that you're probably interested in too.

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written by *charles, June 08, 2010

ok thanks

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written by Ken Priebe, June 10, 2010

Thanks for the plug Marc! I'm curious, LXA, who are you really?

-Ken Priebe

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