Puppet Making, Clay Animation, Armature, Digital Editing Technique with PC Software, etc...
This is a Perfect Guide for Creating Stop Motion Animation!!

Written by Shigeru Okada, Tetsu Kawamura, Masakazu Kobayashi and Keita Funamoto

Puppet Making, Clay Animation, Armature, Digital Editing Technique with PC Software, etc... This is a Perfect Guide for Creating Stop Motion Animation!!

■Adobe Photoshop Extended
■Adobe After Effects
■Adobe Premiere Pro
■Stop Motion Pro Studio HD
Including the trial version of above
software and sample movies

Storyboard, Camera Work, Directorial Technique, Animating, etc.
 
Clay, Wire Armature, Ball and Socket Armature, Foam Latex
Cork-Base Stage, Tie-Down Stage and Rig
The First Japanese Version! User's Manual of "Stop Motion Pro": The Professional Software for Stop Motion Animation.
「Photoshop Extended」
「After Effects」
「Premiere Pro」
 
 
●Primer
  First, Let’s Make Stop Motion Animation!
●Equipments
  Digital Camera
  Lighting Equipments
●Script and Storyboard
  Script
  Storyboard and Timesheet
●Directorial Technique
  Composition
  Editing
  Camera Work
  Lighting
  Sound
●Puppet Making
  Character Design and Design Plan
  Clay-Model
  Wire Armature Puppet
  Ball and Socket Armature
  Ball and Socket Armature Puppet
  Foam Latex Puppet
●Stage
  Cork-Base Stage
  Tie-Down Stage
  Rig
  Simple Lighting
●Photography
  Capture Software
  Animation (Basic)
  Animation (Practical)
●Editing
  Picture Work and Correction with Photoshop Extended
  VFX with After Effects
  Movie Editing Technique with Premiere Pro
●Showing
  Let's Make a DVD!
  Let's Entry For International Animation Film Festival!
  Let's Upload Onto YouTube!
●Appendix
  "Stop Motion Pro" Japanese Version Manual
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Stop Motion Animator.
Specialized in Stop Motion Animation of TV and TV Commercial.
Participated Projects: BUNP OF CHICKEN "Ningyogeki Girudo (Puppet Show Guild)", "Kaiketsu Zorori - Ending", "Uni & Eco Change!" TV Comercial Film of Mitsubishi Electric Co., "MS Shredder" TV Comercial Film of
Meiko Shokai Co.

Website:
Belonging to the audio & visual department of an organization and working on special-effects photography, movie producing, multi-media title creating, etc.
Developed the first moduler-type ball and socket armature kit in 1998,
and which re-developed type and custom ball and socket armatures are widely used in Professional studio and educational institutions in
domestic and abroad.
Participated Works: "Powerful Jurassic World", "A Chronicle of Spaceflight by Masahiro Noda", "Shisha no Sho (Book of The Dead)", etc.

Website:
Representative of Design Square. Originally, an industrial machinery programmer.
Interested in advertisement and image work, maybe cause of the reaction to invisible programming and noise work, and left the machinery maker in 2005.
At present, creating original works with stop motion animation and Puppets.

Website:
Director of Puppet Animation. President of CREATIVE STUDIO Village of Marchen.
Menber of Japan Aniation Association. Official partner of YouTube.
After being as an instructor of "Puppet Animation Experience Class" at Ikebukuro Community College, supervising stop motion animation school
at Sendagaya, Tokyo.

Website:
 
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