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Loading... The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation (1981)by Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This was a Christmas present from my mom when I was about 12. She got it on the discount rack at Kmart and I used this book so much that both the front and back cover have fallen off. I just took it out and looked through it again last night, to find something to stretch my drawing muscles on since I haven't done any drawing in 15 years now. It's every bit as wonderful and full of inspiration as I remember it being. My daughter loves looking through it too. One of the three practically required references for animators and aspiring animators (the other two being Richard Williams' book and Preston Blair's book). This coffee table-sized book was written by two of Disney's "Nine Old Men" at the apex of their careers. In "Illusion of Life" Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston cover the history of animation at the Disney Studios and discusses the process of creating an animated film from beginning to end. The "principles of animation" are covered as are layout, storyreels, background painting an much more. The book is filled with artwork from concept art to background paintings to reproductions of cels to cel setups to rough drawings by the animators. It also contains more technical material such as the design of Disney's Multiplane Camera and the impact it had on animation. This is a beautiful volume that you'll learn something new every time you read it.
The inside story of the gradual perfecting of Disney's character animation technology, an American art form. No library descriptions found. |
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