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The Future Was Here Yesterday: Stop Motion Dynamation Secrets Revealed While there are many books about stop motion and the hows and whys, there are very few that approach it from a beginners, low budget production perspective. There are even fewer that look at the Dynamation process and how the home movie producer can take advantage of this movie making method. This book, The Future Was Here Yesterday, will be aimed at kids from fifth grade through young adult but should also appeal to older film makers too. The book will be broken down into two parts, a history of stop motion and how it influenced film making and also a how to section detailing building stop motion models and the hows of setting up a Dynamation production with no to low budget. The section on model building will detail making wire armature and more advanced ball and socket models. The how two section will also deal with shot composition for Dynamation and how to use green screen and other processes to integrate live action and stop motion together. A section on where to find supplies and how much to expect to pay for them will also be provided.
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My first adventure into animated feature movie making, Matsy Palmer, is available on DVD for purchase here. Click the desired format above to be taken to the correct store front. |
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Reviewed by Piers Anthony, famed author of the Xanth novel series I watched an amateur video, Matsy Palmer, produced by David D'Champ. This is a naughty 90 minute cartoon showing the story of Earth in the year 2069 when the Nazi Unification Terrorist Society NUTS has stolen the Polar Elliptical Navigation Intercept Station PENIS and is holding it for ransom. So Matsy Palmer must activate the Tactical Women's Assault Team TWAT to deal with this threat. The figures are animated drawings of the kind where only the mouth moves when speaking, and only the active figure in a scene moves at all. So there wasn't a spare hundred million dollars to make for more realistic animations; what there is is sufficient to carry the story. The figures talk, move, and have simulated sex. That is, there are bare figures rocking together and with effects, but you don't actually see the intimate details; call it soft core. Many are well endowed young women in colorful two-piece outfits that, being holographic, can fade out on occasion to leave them naked, albeit with breasts that show no nipples. One messed up her captors by wearing real clothing that wouldn't fade. The sound is a bit fuzzy. Once you accept the limits of the staging, it moves along okay. The Nuts capture the Twats and try to sexually torture them to death, but it doesn't work, I'm not sure why. So in the end the home team wins after a heroic struggle. |
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