‘Art Of’ books have become quite popular over the last number of years and it seems that they have become an established part of movie merchandise for all movies, not just the animated ones where they began. The content of art of books tends to vary quite a bit. Some are truly fantastic windows into […]
Via: The LA Times Everyone and their dog is familiar with Walt Disney. Those with a passion for animation will be intimately familiar with the man known as The Old Maestro and how he almost single-handedly made animation into something much more than a short, gag-based form of entertainment. Of course, most of those folks […]
Admittedly I haven’t read much on the Nine Old Men. That’s partly the result of reading other things and simply not having the time to devote more time to reading things. However these past few months, I’ve been plowing through the 11th volume of Didier Ghez’s excellent tome, Walt’s People, and through many of the […]
Ever since my passion for animation was ignited a couple of years ago, my collection has been on the increase. It’s still relatively small though; buying school books puts paid to that. It’s a good selection though that represents a good variety of animation styles and genres. Have a peek (click to see full-size) and […]
Via: Good Reads Admittedly (and ashamedly), the Spirited Away book by Andrew Osmond published by the British Film Institute (BFI) sat in my cart on Amazon for quite literally years before I finally got around to buying it. I know, I know, but that’s just the way it happened. In any case, the wait was […]
Spotted over on the Ambling Around column of AWN is this review for a book that you may not be aware of. Tricky Women is a festival held each year in Austria dedicated to, you guessed it, women in animation and they’ve put out a collection of essays devoted to the topic. The description from […]
The book is dedicated to Walt Disney, the greatest Pied Piper of the all. A couple of weeks ago, I picked up Cy Schneider’s book, ‘Children’s Television’ at a used book sale. I didn’t know much about it and I certainly hadn’t heard of the author, but it seemed to have some stuff about animation […]
Via: Heroes in My Closet Which I managed to pick up at MoCCA and have been quite intrigued by some of the stories therein. While we’re talking about the author, Craig Yoe, I also managed to pick up his absolutely excellent Jetta book. Via: Colleen Coover Besides being stuffed to the gills with great art, […]
They say God created the earth in seven days although I have a sneaking feeling that if he hired David Levy, he would have got the job done in five, and still found time to write a book about it. Theological jokes aside, David really is that hard working. Besides being an animator, he’s also […]
It’s been a while (over three months in fact) since I first began writing what will be the first draft. Since then there’s been a brief, two and a half month (!) hiatus but I hope to change that. The picture above is a quick peek at the current structure I have outlined. It’s far […]
Hopefully I’ll find out once I read this book, published in 1987. Via: Amazon.com Have you already read it? Feel free to leave a comment.
