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title: "Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation"
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# Covers filming & postproduction Full-color illustrations throughout Comprehensive step-by-step guide Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation

**Price:** € 140.29
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## Summary

> 🎬 Bring your models to life—animate your future with every page!

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- **What is this?** Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation
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## Why This Product

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## Key Features

- • **Career-Ready Guidance:** Includes tips on landing your first job in a modern animation studio.
- • **Practical & Accessible:** Perfect for novices with no budget—start animating your own stories today.
- • **Industry Insider Expertise:** Authored by Susannah Shaw, ex-Aardman camera assistant and animation educator.
- • **Complete Production Workflow:** Explore story development, set design, mechanics of movement, filming, and postproduction.
- • **Master the Art of Model Animation:** From puppet creation to lifelike performance, learn every essential craft skill.

## Overview

Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation is a practical, full-color illustrated guide by animation expert Susannah Shaw. It covers all stages of model animation from character creation to filming and postproduction, making it ideal for beginners and aspiring professionals. With insider knowledge from Aardman studios and career advice included, this book is a must-have for anyone serious about mastering stop motion animation.

## Description

To make great animation, you need to know how to control a whole world: how to make a character, how to make that character live and be happy or sad. You need to create four walls around them, a landscape, the sun and moon - a whole life for them. You have to get inside that puppet and first make it live, then make it perform. Susannah Shaw provides the first truly practical introduction to the craft skills of model animation. This is a vital book in the development of model animation which, following the success of Aardman's first full-length film, Chicken Run, is now at the forefront of modern animation. Illustrated in full colour throughout you are shown step by step how to create successful model animation. Starting with some basic exercises, you will learn about developing a story, making models, creating set and props, the mechanics of movement, filming, postproduction and how to set about finding that elusive first job in a modern studio. Susannah Shaw is Programme Development Manager for the Animated Exeter festival. She was head of the Bristol Animation Course from 1996 to 2000 at the University of the West of England and former camera assistant at Aardman (working on 'A Close Shave' among other films).

Review: Five Stars - A well written book which explains in detail.
Review: Stop Motion - Great book to help with a novice who wants to start with no budget- really useful love it x x

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## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 949,552 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 259 in Animation Graphic Design 318 in Web Graphics & Animation 484 in Animation Production & Technology |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars
*by S***O on 23 January 2018*

A well written book which explains in detail.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Stop Motion
*by M***D on 1 March 2014*

Great book to help with a novice who wants to start with no budget- really useful love it x x

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Alright book
*by L***I on 9 March 2022*

Alright book For uni

## Frequently Bought Together

- Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation
- The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators

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*Last updated: 2026-07-17*