How to Make a Simple Animated Movie

When you were a kid, did you ever make a movie by taking a pad of paper and drawing a stick figure on each page, changing the figure a tiny bit on each drawing; and then, when you’d finished, watching the “movie” you’d created by flipping rapidly through the pages? Well, making a stop-action animated […]

Book Report: The Filmmaker’s Handbook, by Ascher and Pincus

Whether you’re an old hand at filmmaking or a rank beginner you’ll find much to inform you in Steven Ascher and Edward Pincus’s tome, nearly two inches thick, The Filmmaker’s Handbook:  A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age. Having posted several dozen videos at YouTube I came to realize how pitifully little I knew about […]