"Stopmotion: Craft Skills for Model Animation" Book review!

Wuts ^ ! (terrible arrow, I know...)

Well, after waiting for a week, I have finally gotten my copy of
"Stopmotion: Craft Skills for Model Animation"
*Click link for amazon page

So, heres my short review.
Overview:

I think that this book has a huge amount of information in it, that will definately help anyone in the range of starting out, to advanced animators. (though for the advanced animators, it would probably be more of a reference book more than a learning book)

The book covers:
-a brief history of stopmotion
-getting set up with equipment, ect.
-pre-production info-storyboarding, x-sheets, ect.
-information about lighting, equipment, clays, latex, and tons of other things.
-great details on the animation itself
-sound-lip syncing, voice overs, ect.
-post production

Theres alot of other stuff in the book, but ill leave it up to you to find it!

Pictures:
Almost all the pictures in the book are fully colored, and ver clear. They help alot in getting the ideas across.

Highlights:
The part I found the most helpful to ME, is the whole process on making a good armature, and creating molds. I have researched a TON of stopmotion stuff, and been to pretty much every stopmo site out there, but for some reason, I could never really find a CLEAR and EASY to follow tutorial on how to do these two things. There is alot of information about how to make armatures out there, but not with the same quality as the ones in this book.

All in all, I would really recommend this book to everyone, because even if you knew everything in the book, it would still provide all the specifics about everything if you ever needed it, all in one book.

If the $25.00 price tag seems high for you, I would still recommend buying it, or at least finding a used one for cheaper.

Thats all for now, but if I think of anything, ill add it to this post, or posts above. :)