Animating with Stop Motion Pro

Animating with Stop Motion Pro is comprehensive, hands-on guide to achieving professional results with Stop Motion Pro 7.0 software. Gone are the days of stop motion guesswork and waiting to see the finalized result of your meticulous, labor intensive animations. With the push of a mouse button and the Stop Motion Pro software, animators have ten times the capability of simple camera stop motion capture. Re-visualize stop motion character movements, graph these movements and composite characters into a flawless animations with the techniques and step by step tutorials featured in Animating with Stop Motion Pro. Create professional stop motion animation immediately with detailed exercises at the companion website: http://booksite.focalpress.com/companion/Sawicki/stopmotion/. Integrate classic stop motion animation techniques with the latest stop motion software features.

• Develop the next Wallace and Gromit with ease and skill with the step by step tutorials and exercises; highlighting Stop Motion Pro 7.0 features like multi layered onion skinning, continuous preview, rotoscoping and frame averaging, motion control and audio synching.
• Create professional stop motion animation immediately with detailed exercises at the companion website: http://booksite.focalpress.com/companion/Sawicki/stopmotion/. Integrate classic stop motion animation techniques with the latest stop motion software features.
• Amplyify your animations with the only certified Stop Motion Pro guide available; Re-visualize stop motion character movements, configure your camera and build armature rigs while creating dynamic animations.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Animate Time
Animate People
Animate Objects
Animate Voices
Animate Puppets
Animate Clay
Animate Monsters
Acting for Animation
Sets for Animation
Cameras for Animation
Professional Techniques