ISBN10: 0786860707, ISBN13: 9780786860708, [publisher: Hyperion] Hardcover Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A few small stains. Small tears to the dust jacket.
[Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1995]
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ISBN10: 0786860707, ISBN13: 9780786860708, [publisher: Disney Publishing Group Okt 1995] Hardcover Neuware - The most complete book on the subject ever written, this is the fascinating inside story by two long-term Disney animators of the gradual perfecting of a relatively young and particularly American art from, which no other move studio has ever been able to equal. The authors, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston , worked not only with the legendary Walt Disney himself but also with other leading figures in the half-century of Disney films. They personally animated leading characters in most of the famous films, and have decades of close association with the other men and women who helped perfect this extremely difficult and time-consuming art form (each feature requires some two and half million drawings!). Not to be mistaken for just a 'how-to-do-it,' this voluminously illustrated volume (like the classic Disney films themselves) is definitely intended for everyone to enjoy. Besides relating the painstaking trial-and-error development of Disney's charcter animation technology, this book irresistibly charms us with almost an overabundance of the original historic drawings used in creating some of the best-loved characters in American culture: Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, Snow White and Bambi (among many, many others) as well as early sketches used in developing memorable sequences from classic features such as Fantasia and Pinocchio. With the full ...