Comments on: Animation History Books

by: Mark Sonntag

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:29:09 +0000

Great collection, I would also recommend Charles Solomon’s THE DISNEY THAT NEVER WAS and TOO FUNNY FOR WORDS by Frank and Ollie.

by: Eddie Fitzgerald

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:41:54 +0000

Good books all! “Art of Animation” is my favorite animation book of all because it manages to capture the feel of the creative energy at Disney’s that made me want to be an artist in the first place. How did it accomplish that? I wish I could analyze it.

by: Henry Lowengard

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:15:40 +0000

I’ve been partial to Shamus Culhane’s bittersweet bio TALKING ANIMALS AND OTHER PEOPLE ever since I picked it up as a review copy in the Strand. His long experience in animation, full of ups and downs, crazy personalities, roaming from studio to studio, starting from before cell animation and ending with a hope for computer animation, it has a great sweep.
He got out one more book before he died, ANIMATION SCRIPT TO SCREEN which is more of a technical manual, but it repeats a few of the same stories.

by: Kathy Ceceri

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:51:30 +0000

Thanks, Michael! I’ll watch for part 2.

by: Tom Minton

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:42:55 +0000

The 1959 “The Art of Animation” is the book that lit the fire for a whole generation of people. It provided the first serious look inside a real cartoon studio at a time when very little such information was available. Perhaps it wasn’t kept in print because so much of its content centers on the making of “Sleeping Beauty” but one hopes that a limited-run collectors’ edition might still someday become a reality. Not everyone can afford e-Bay and the price remains too high because there simply aren’t that many copies still in circulation.