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Fabricating the outside: Part 1

Christopher Walsh

Christopher Walsh has an MFA in Film Studies, and is a Professor in the Bachelor of Animation Program at Sheridan College, Canada. He has worked extensively in the stop motion television industry, and his own short films continue to screen at animation festivals internationally. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Stop Motion Filmmaking : The Complete Guide To Fabrication And Animation

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...This is the first of two chapters that deal with fabricating Nia’s exterior parts. In this chapter, the focus is on sculpting most of Nia’s parts that will eventually be used in moulding. This chapter also provides an introduction...

New York 1987: The Big Pond

Walter Santucci

Walter Santucci is Animation Director at Klasky Csupo Animation and Professor of Animation History at California State University, Los Angeles, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Guerrilla Guide to Animation : Making Animated Films Outside the Mainstream

Continuum, 2009

Book

...Shortly thereafter I moved to New York and began working as a Parking PA (Production Assistant) on a low-budget feature film. What’s a Parking PA? Well, it’s like this: The production would set up in various neighborhoods and us Parking PAs...

All Up in My Grill

Walter Santucci

Walter Santucci is Animation Director at Klasky Csupo Animation and Professor of Animation History at California State University, Los Angeles, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Guerrilla Guide to Animation : Making Animated Films Outside the Mainstream

Continuum, 2009

Book

...All right, this is not a happy chapter. In fact, I don’t even really want to write it. But I will because there are lessons in it, and that’s what this book is all about.Soon after The Punisher, we bid on a commercial job for Weber Grills...

What is Animation?

Walter Santucci

Walter Santucci is Animation Director at Klasky Csupo Animation and Professor of Animation History at California State University, Los Angeles, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Guerrilla Guide to Animation : Making Animated Films Outside the Mainstream

Continuum, 2009

Book

...Here is a dry, succinct definition of animation that sounds like it came from the New World Collegiate Dictionary and Style Guide, but which I actually made up just now: “Animation is a moving picture created via photographing or digitizing...

Cheating Las Vegas

Walter Santucci

Walter Santucci is Animation Director at Klasky Csupo Animation and Professor of Animation History at California State University, Los Angeles, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Guerrilla Guide to Animation : Making Animated Films Outside the Mainstream

Continuum, 2009

Book

...The budget for the MGM project was small but comfortable. But it was only comfortable because of all the cheats we knew. For example, all the backgrounds were made from photographs run through Photoshop filters. We went all around the Las...

Flash

Walter Santucci

Walter Santucci is Animation Director at Klasky Csupo Animation and Professor of Animation History at California State University, Los Angeles, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Guerrilla Guide to Animation : Making Animated Films Outside the Mainstream

Continuum, 2009

Book

...Adobe Flash is a big, bad, often confusing program that nevertheless is widely used in animation today. This chapter, along with the subsequent After Effects chapter, is filled with detailed exercises to help you and these programs get...

An introduction to stop motion puppets

Christopher Walsh

Christopher Walsh has an MFA in Film Studies, and is a Professor in the Bachelor of Animation Program at Sheridan College, Canada. He has worked extensively in the stop motion television industry, and his own short films continue to screen at animation festivals internationally. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Stop Motion Filmmaking : The Complete Guide To Fabrication And Animation

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Book

...In the end we’re dependent on the creatures we’ve created.In this chapter, we’ll begin the process of making puppets by first attempting to understand puppets better, both in general terms, and from a stop motion perspective specifically...

Lighting

Christopher Walsh

Christopher Walsh has an MFA in Film Studies, and is a Professor in the Bachelor of Animation Program at Sheridan College, Canada. He has worked extensively in the stop motion television industry, and his own short films continue to screen at animation festivals internationally. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Stop Motion Filmmaking : The Complete Guide To Fabrication And Animation

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Book

...The process of lighting for stop motion can be a journey of discovery, as you carefully position your lights in an effort to make your scene perfect. As you work, you may find yourself feeling a bit like a sculptor, as your lights seem...

Materials

Walter Santucci

Walter Santucci is Animation Director at Klasky Csupo Animation and Professor of Animation History at California State University, Los Angeles, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Guerrilla Guide to Animation : Making Animated Films Outside the Mainstream

Continuum, 2009

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...While there are many types of software out there to help do the grunt work of animation, it's best to know how traditional animation is created before using them.For your work, the first thing you will need is what is called a “peg bar...

Sun Tzu Paraphrased

Walter Santucci

Walter Santucci is Animation Director at Klasky Csupo Animation and Professor of Animation History at California State University, Los Angeles, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Guerrilla Guide to Animation : Making Animated Films Outside the Mainstream

Continuum, 2009

Book

...There is a saying in Sun Tzu’s Art of War that goes: “If you wait by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by.”Similarly, if you wait by the river long enough in Hollywood, you can get a meeting with whomever you...