Susannah Shaw, "Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation, Second Edition (Focal Visual Effects and Animation)"
Publisher: Focal | 2008 | ISBN 0240520556 | PDF | 264 pages | 10 MB
To make great animation, you need to know how to control a whole world: how to make a character, how to make that character live and be happy or sad. You need to create four walls around them, a landscape, the sun and moon - a whole life for them. You have to get inside that puppet and first make it live, then make it perform.
