Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation, Second Edition (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation)
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Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation, Second Edition (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation)

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.
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