5 must-read nonfiction books like Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation) by Susannah Shaw

Cover of Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation) by Susannah Shaw

Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation)

By: Susannah Shaw

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

To make great animation, you need to know how to control a whole how to make a character, how to m…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation) by Susannah Shaw , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1) by Art Spiegelman

1. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

By: Art Spiegelman

4.38

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

The first installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week…Then you could see what it is, friends! …"

-Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

"Maybe your father needed to show that he was always right - that he could always SURVIVE - because he felt GUILTY about surviving."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

Cover of Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1) by Marjane Satrapi, Mattias Ripa

2. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

By: Marjane Satrapi , Mattias Ripa

4.26

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from … read more

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  • nonfiction
"To each his own way of calming down."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

"Saying goodbye is a little like dying."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

"My natural optimism just leads me to be skeptical."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

"I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

Cover of A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4) by Anaïs Nin

3. A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

By: Anaïs Nin

3.71

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Although Anais Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession, she could … read more

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"Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection."

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

"Later he´ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the esperanto of alcoholics, which is a language full of stutterings from the geological layers of our animal ancestors"

-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

Cover of The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry   Mitchell, Ned Asta

4. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more

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"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

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5. Bird by Bird

By: Anne Lamott

4.24

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

A newer edition of this title can be found here. "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten… read more

Similar categories in Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird book and Susannah Shaw's Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation)

  • nonfiction
  • reference
"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

Cover of The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin

6. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.25

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more

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"... “Dangerous!"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Freedom is never very safe."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Who do you think is lying to us?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

7. The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles, and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators

By: Richard Williams

3.72

Format: 640 pages,

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8. Creating 3-D Animation

By: Brian Sibley , Nick Park , None

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

What do Wallace and Gromit, Godzilla, and Gumby have in common? They're all examples of 3-D animati… read more

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9. Nevada

By: Imogen Binnie

3.97

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more

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"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

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10. A Dream of a Woman

By: Casey Plett

4.31

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Casey Plett's 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction… read more

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11. Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World

By: Elspeth Beard

4.49

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1982, at the age of just twenty-three and halfway through her architecture studies, Elspeth Bear… read more

Similar categories in Elspeth Beard's Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World book and Susannah Shaw's Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation)

  • nonfiction
Cover of Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation) by Susannah Shaw

12. Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation)

By: Susannah Shaw

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

To make great animation, you need to know how to control a whole how to make a character, how to m… read more

Similar categories in Susannah Shaw's Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation) book and Susannah Shaw's Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation)

  • art
  • nonfiction
  • film
  • reference

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3.88

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