![]() | Cracking Animation: The Aardman Book of 3-D Animation by Peter Lord
Buy new: £12.46 / Used from: £9.99 first animation book I bought, not the most useful, but certainly very inspirational
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![]() | Projections: Film-makers on Film-making No. 5
Buy used from: £1.18 includes interviews with Nick Park, Ray Harryhausen, Henry Selick, and an article on Ladislaw Starewicz
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![]() | Jan Svankmajer - The Complete Short Films [DVD] [1964]
Buy new: £23.97 / Used from: £23.48 object animation and surrealist ideas at their finest
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![]() | The Quay Brothers - The Short Films 1979-2003 (Two Discs) [DVD]
Buy new: £17.88 intricate puppet animation within carefully crafted sets
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![]() | The King Kong Collection [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Buy used from: £13.95 fantastic special features and of course great animation from the old masters. If you want to watch all the best animation it's defenitely worth getting a multi-region DVD player
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![]() | Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years [DVD] by Ray Harryhausen
Buy new: £5.98 The king of stop-motion's old days. Inspiring for the young artist
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![]() | Ray Harryhausen: Legendary Monster Series [DVD] [1963] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Buy used from: £25.00 The King's best films. Includes 'Harryhausen Chronicles', an excellent documentary
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![]() | Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life by Ray Harryhausen
Buy new: £21.19 / Used from: £18.50 no Harryahusen collection can be complete without this informative autobiography
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![]() | The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka [DVD] [1951] [US Import]
Buy used from: £513.00 excellent puppet animation, and some cut-out as well
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![]() | Aardman Classics [DVD]
Buy used from: £3.98 the best of Britain's greatest animation studio
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![]() | Wallace And Gromit - 3 Cracking Adventures [DVD]
Buy used from: £2.45 and of course we couldn't forget them
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![]() | Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation) by Shaw
Buy new: £15.08 / Used from: £16.87 |
![]() | Stop Motion: Passion, Process and Performance by Barry Purves
Buy new: £19.18 / Used from: £17.57 |
![]() | The Art of Stop-Motion Animation by Ken Priebe
Buy new: £23.12 / Used from: £17.67 |
![]() | The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition) [1994] [DVD]
Buy used from: £2.76 one of the greatest stopmo films ever. DVD includes early Tim Burton animation 'Vincent'
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![]() | Tim Burton's "Nightmare Before Christmas": The Film, The Art, The Vision by Tim Burton
Buy new: £11.18 / Used from: £2.87 |
![]() | The Animation Book by Kit Laybourne
Buy new: £12.09 / Used from: £4.95 good introduction to multiple techniques including stopmo
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![]() | The Human Figure in Motion by Eadweard Muybridge
Buy new: £21.61 / Used from: £18.92 not as indispensable as some say, but definitely very useful
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![]() | The Stop-motion Filmography: A Critical Guide to 297 Features Using Puppet Animation by Neil Pettigrew
Buy new: £64.13 / Used from: £67.13 Worth it.
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![]() | Equinox [DVD] [1970] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Buy used from: £17.99 a film from the young Dennis Muren (head of ILM). Fun and inspirational
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![]() | Black Scorpion [DVD] [1957] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Buy used from: £12.76 wnderfully silly film with excellent animation from Willis O'Brien and good special features
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![]() | Jiri Barta: Labyrinth of Darkness [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Buy used from: £10.35 surreal and humerous animation in the svankmajer vein
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![]() | The Adventures Of Prince Achmed [1926] [DVD]
Buy new: £12.88 cut-out silhouette animation
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![]() | Robot Chicken: Seasons 1 and 2 [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Buy used from: £38.06 ridiculously funny and offensive stopmo. Come for the animation, stay for the laughs. Soon to be released on Region 2. Check it out on YouTube before you buy.
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![]() | A Century of Model Animation by Ray Harryhausen
Buy new: £19.49 / Used from: £18.51 not yet released, but I'll certainly be buying it
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![The Quay Brothers - The Short Films 1979-2003 (Two Discs) [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41SQSC23R7L._SL75_.jpg)
![The King Kong Collection [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SVVC2DGWL._SL75_.jpg)
![Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514MJQqeQWL._SL75_.jpg)
![Ray Harryhausen: Legendary Monster Series [DVD] [1963] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AZC6B9AVL._SL75_.jpg)

![The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka [DVD] [1951] [US Import]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K82K3EWAL._SL75_.jpg)
![Aardman Classics [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514YZTTBW4L._SL75_.jpg)
![Wallace And Gromit - 3 Cracking Adventures [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HJPK7FRVL._SL75_.jpg)



![The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition) [1994] [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31GQKP9JCQL._SL75_.jpg)




![Equinox [DVD] [1970] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61dO2Pp4pIL._SL75_.jpg)
![Black Scorpion [DVD] [1957] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vfLusYO3L._SL75_.jpg)
![Jiri Barta: Labyrinth of Darkness [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AQD5A6CXL._SL75_.jpg)
![The Adventures Of Prince Achmed [1926] [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41S3QJAR92L._SL75_.jpg)
![Robot Chicken: Seasons 1 and 2 [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31ZMFsBqdhL._SL75_.jpg)

![Lotte Reiniger - Fairy Tales [DVD] [1922]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kX4cC%2BZrL._SL75_.jpg)
![The Tomb Of Ligeia [DVD] [1964]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SC1WNJBXL._SL75_.jpg)
