Frame-By-Frame Stop Motion

Tom Gasek has over twenty-five years of award winning stop motion animation production experience as an animator and director, having worked with directors like Will Vinton, Art Clokey and Henry Selick. At Aardman Studios, he contributed Nick Park' s Wallace & Gromit short, The Wrong Trousers. Gasek co-directed and animated, The Inside-Out Boy (Nickelodeon), which is a part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Most recently, Tom has worked on Aardman's Creature Comforts America , Sony Bravia's Play-Doh , and Laika's Coraline. Tom is currently an assistant professor at the School of Film & Animation at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Chapter 1 What Are the Possibilities?1Opening image is of Norman McLaren directing Neighbours.© 1952 National Film Board of Canada. All rights reserved. Photo credit: Evelyn Lambert.; Chapter 2 Shooting Frame by Frame1Opening image is from the 1988 film Candyjam, directed and produced by Joanna Priestly and Joan Gratz, © 1988.; Chapter 3 Pixilation1Opening image is a light painting with Christmas lights. © Tom Gasek2011.; Chapter 4 Time-Lapse Photography1Opening image is a close-up of a time-lapse rig, created by Ken Murphy, History of the Sky project. © Ken Murphy 2009.; Chapter 5 Cinematography, Lighting, and Composition1Opening image is a sguashand stretch image superimposed on a camera lens. © Tom Gasek 2011.; Chapter 6 Objects, People, and Places1Opening image is of an animator moving Frank Passingham and Tom Thumb model. By Bolex Brothers, used with permission from Dave Borthwick © 1986.; Chapter 7 The Multiplane Downshooter1Opening images are the pre-digital studio set-up and the current digital studio set-up of artist Joan Gratz. Photograph by Joan Gratz, © 2010.; Chapter 8 A Sense of Drama1Opening image is a still from Jidlo (Food), directed by Jan Svankmajer. Photo © 1992 Athanor Ltd. Film Production Company, Jaromir Kallista and Jan Svankmajer. Courtesy of Jan Svankmajer.; Chapter 9 Rhythm and Flow1Opening image is Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Walter Cronkite. JibJab Media Inc., © 2010, courtesy of Evan Spiridellis.; Chapter 10 Collage (The Digital Advantage)1Opening images are a series of the composite Hat Fish, © Tom Gasek2011.; Chapter 11 Massaging Frames in the Edit1Opening image is one of a new digital editing laptop computer attacking an old film Moviola on the run. © Tom Gasek 2011.; Chapter 12 Exposure to the Market1Opening image is a portrait of Jan Svankmajer, © Athanor Ltd. Film Production Company, Jaromir Kallista, and Jan Svankmajer 2010. Courtesy of Jan Svankmajer.;