A Century of Model Animation: From Méliès to Aardman (First edition, Hardcover)

Ray Harryhausen and Tony Dalton

ISBN 10: 1845133676 / ISBN 13: 9781845133672

Editore: Aurum Press, 2008

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Aurum Press, UK, 2008. Texto en inglés. Cine. Películas. Profusamente ilustrado. 240 pp. 30 x 25. Tela editorial tapa dura con dorados en lomo y sobrecubierta de editorial ilustrada. Sin subrayados ni anotaciones. Perfecto estado de conservación. ISBN: 9781845133672.

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• Titolo: A Century of Model Animation: From Méliès to Aardman (First edition, Hardcover)
• Editore: Aurum Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1845133676
• ISBN 13: 9781845133672
• Rilegatura: Encuadernación de tapa dura
• Edizione: 1? Edición
• Condizione: Bien

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Riassunto

The technique of stop-motion model animation – bringing models to life by filming them one frame at a time – was the most important way of creating cinematic monsters and fantasy creatures before the advent of computer-generated imagery. It is a technique that will forever be associated with names of Willis O’Brien, the creator of King Kong, and Ray Harryhausen, whose films thrilled a generation of post-World War II movie-goers. But the first crude model animations were made in the 1890s and in the first two decades of the twentieth century pioneers producing short animated films before O’Brien created the first two animated features, The Lost World and King Kong in the dying days of silent film. Moreover, stop-motion model animation is still alive and flourishing, most notably in the work of directors Tim Burton and Aardman Animation’s Nick Park, whose plasticine creations have starred in major hits such as Chicken Run and The Curse of the Were-rabbit. In this book Ray Harryhausen and his co-author Tony Dalton trace the history of the genre to which Ray devoted the whole of his working life, from the almost accidental discovery that inanimate objects could be brought to life on the screen to movies such as Jurassic Park, which combined model animation with computer-based techniques to bring a new generation of prehistoric creatures to life. In doing so he gives his readers a fascinating insight into the patience and ingenuity of the animators, explains the development and refinement of the technology, especially that which enabled actors and animated models to interact on the same screen, and gives us tantalising glimpses of the many abandoned projects which litter the history of model animation. The book is lavishly illustrated with stills, many of them from forgotten movies and never before published in book form, sketches and storyboards for projects, explanatory diagrams, rare photographs of animators and artists at work and a host of memorabilia.

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`Definitive text, fantastic illustrations, this is a must for any serious movie-buff.' --The Bookseller, May, 2008

'[a] gorgeous book' --Academy Magazine, December 2008