Introduction
Why This Book?
Stop-motion animation has been a passion and calling of mine for 30 years. My undergraduate studies were in Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology (where I now teach), and animation came into my life quite by accident. In my last two years at RIT, a new teacher, Erik Timmerman, decided to start an animation course, the first at RIT. Having been raised on cartoons with a love from Rocky and Bullwinkle to Gumby, I felt compelled to take this course. Upon my graduation, two years later, I was on my way to Hollywood to collect a Student Academy Award along with my partner Malcolm Spaull for our stop-motion version of Lewis Carroll’s The Walrus and the Carpenter. Animation became my career path with design playing ...
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