The Advanced Art of Stop-Motion Animation

The Advanced Art of Stop-Motion Animation by Ken A. Priebe. If you're serious about doing your own stop-motion work, I suggest this book. It has a lot of great info on the basic principles of animation, building puppets, character animation and visual effect compositing techniques.

Introduction. 1. History of Stop-Motion Feature Films. 2. An Interview with Screen Novelties. 3. Building Puppets. 4. Digital Cinematography. 5. An Interview with Pete Kozachik, ASC. 6. An Interview with Trey Thomas. 7. Character Animation. 8. An Interview with Bronwen Kyffin. 9. Visual Effects. 10. An Interview with Larry Bafia and Webster Colcord. 11. An Interview with Marc Spess. 12. An Interview with Ryan McColluch. 13. An Interview with Justin & Shel Rasch. Bibliography. Index.