Product Description
An out-of-print collector’s item since 1986, the definitive account of the development of Disney animation explains what made Disney’s style unique and features original sketches and drawings revealing the origins of Mickey and the rest. National ad/promo…. More >>
The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation
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FAMILY DELIGHTS
FAMILY FAVORITES
Imagine Party Babyz
THE ADVENTURES OF SUPER CELLULAR
#1 by goldfishy on April 2, 2010 - 12:50 am
…then why is it out of print? I have been looking for this book for a long time. It only appears at used book stores or on ebay at high prices. If it is so great, why is it so hard to find?
Rating: 2 / 5
#2 by Mr. Pedro Cortes on April 2, 2010 - 1:21 am
I bought this book and opened it thinking that it wil be the strong version of The Animator Survival Kit, then after just 5 minutes I realized that it was a serial loose of my money because it not worth the money I paid. It has nothing that helps you to animate , is just the story of some Disney old animated movies. And the rest of it is to read a full scale of bla, bla, bla, bla that don’t help in anything. But if you are a collector of Disney old stories it will be ok, so before buy it just think if you wanna draw to animate or just collect a big & heavy book with a Disney name on it.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Foggy on April 2, 2010 - 3:55 am
This is a biased and officially licensed piece of pro-Walt Disney propaganda. The animation tips from Frank Thomas, one of the greatest animators who ever lived, are priceless. But he and his buddy Ollie Johnston (who was not nearly as talented as Thomas) are biased, and as a history, it is severely flawed.
Many vital artists to the Disney style of animation are given the shaft, which is essentially anyone outside of the Nine Old Men. Fred Moore, Art Babbitt, and Bill Tytla are almost completely ignored. Director Jack Kinney and animator John Sibley, the team responsible for Disney’s best short subject series, Goofy, are not even mentioned. They do a good job of erasing all of the ‘bombs’ such as Alice in Wonderland and Three Caballeros as well.
I also am repulsed at the lauding of such dreadful features as Robin Hood and The Rescuers. Surely more serious discourse could be given to the studio’s much earlier work that was unquestionably superior. And any tome this size that gives only four mentions to Dumbo (and only in passing) is not worth owning.
Skip it.
Rating: 2 / 5
#4 by Bob from the Midwest on April 2, 2010 - 4:10 am
if you are only interested in a how-to book, because that’s not what its intended to be, especially now with cell animation being pushed out by CG. What it is a history of Disney even down to the everyday details of the process that created the movies we only know as the final production.
If you want a book, that will help you expand your ‘creative thinking’ and give ideas about building concepts, then you should find this book to be helpfull.
Rating: 4 / 5
#5 by Anonymous on April 2, 2010 - 4:46 am
Well if you do and you don’t have this book, your a CHUMP
Rating: 5 / 5