Puppetry, puppet animation and the digital age / Rolf Giesen ; edited by Giannalberto Bendazzi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giesen, Rolf, author.

Contributor:

Bendazzi, Giannalberto, editor.

Series:

CRC focus series

CRC focus

The Focus animation series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stop-motion animation films--History.

Stop-motion animation films.

Puppet films--History.

Puppet films.

Animation (Cinematography)--History.

Animation (Cinematography).

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 122 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2019]

Summary:

"We are going to leave the Age of Materialism and enter the Age of Virtuality. There is less and less conventional filmmaking. Nothing seems to be impossible in digital imagery. VFX Academy Award winning cinematographer Dennis Muren was among the first to consequently abandon the field of stop motion animation in favor of CGI in Jurassic Park. Nowadays puppets and dimensional animation occupy only a niche. Most people prefer the fluid animation, the texture and the challenges of digital animation. Others still acknowledge not only the craftsmanship but the uniqueness of stop-frame dimensional animation that is way beyond the standardization of CGI"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

It's not just nostalgia

The origin of puppets and homunculi

The art of silhouette plays and films

2D versus 3D in Nazi Germany

Puppetoons versus Jirí Trnka

The dynamators

Pixilation and mocap : people become puppets

The road to CGI

The decomposition of images

Aardman; or, the renaissance of stop motion

The isle of old-fashioned animators

The stop-motion chronicles.

Notes:

"A Focal Press Book"

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815382041

0815382049

OCLC:

1043974865