The authors really put an emphasis on how animation shaped and changed with Disney as Disney shaped and changed animation. However pictures in the advert all make a point of showing this as signed and the book most definitely isn't. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. It's an inspiring book recommended to animators, great for those who want a flashback to the golden era of animation.

To me, the key take away is how a complex, stylized animation style can be decomposed into smaller, understandable chunks (i.

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No matter what the devil one talks about—whether force or form, or well-drawn characters, timing, or spacing—animation is all these things—not anyone. A "magnificent volume" that remains "essential for film collections and a feast for the most casual peruser. Two of Walt Disney's famous "Nine Old Men," Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston met as students at Stanford University and joined the Disney studio within a year of each other in the mid-1930s. From Walt's Nine Old Men, basic principles, the many glimpses into the workings of the animators at Disney's during the Golden Age and more. Reading about a film heavily referenced in a chapter, then watching that film with the background knowledge from the chapter was a lot of fun.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

For fans of Disney but also animation in general to see the process, its very detailed and going to be a wonderful book to go through. Only when people are in an environment beyond their expected time, people's reaction is the closest to its origin. The authors, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, worked with Walt Disney himself as well as other leading figures in a half-century of Disney films. I can agree that early Disney Animation was ahead of its time, but the sort of cockiness was kind of a shock to me in a book like this one.Seeing “texture” and personality in books, like these questions, really gave me a sense of immersion that I have not seen many other books of the type do. The most complete book ever written on the subject, this is the fascinating inside story, told by two long-term Disney animators, of the gradual perfection of a relatively young and particularly American art form--which no other movie studio has been able to equal.