Animating With Stop Motion Pro

Animating with Stop Motion Pro is the only certified, hands-on guide to achieving professional results with Stop Motion Pro 7.0. Eliminate the guesswork and labor intensity of traditional stop motion capture. This invaluable resource provides you with the skills to fully optimize and customize Stop Motion Pro.7.0 to your own workflow. Featuring multilayered onion skinning, continuous preview, rotoscoping and audio synching, it's an essential buy for any budding stop motion creative. Single camera stop motion capture is as easy as the click of a mouse with over 20 detailed projects including how to build armature rigs, and tips that allow you to develop professional looking animations. Visit the companion website http://booksite.focalpress.com/companion/Sawicki/stopmotion/to explore further techniques, tips, tricks and animation inspiration.

Mark Sawicki is a camera man, artist, and actor. He has taught visual effects for over 20 years and been an independent stop motion animator on several MTV videos. He won an Emmy Certificate for his visual effects camera contributions to the television series, Star Trek. His visual effects and animation credits include Tropic Thunder, Premonition, 40 Year Old Virgin and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.