Animation Production Biographies
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The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company
by David A Price  Publisher Comments The roller-coaster rags-to-riches story behind the phenomenal success of Pixar Animation Studios: the first in-depth look at the company that forever changed the film industry and the “fraternity of geeks” who shaped it. The Pixar Touch is a...
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Warner Brothers Animation Art: The Characters - The Creators - The Limited Editions
by Jerry Beck Publisher Comments Published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the Warner Bros. studios, Warner Bros. Animation Art is an album of authentic animation art of everyone's favorite characters. Who hasn't spent a Saturday morning with Bugs Bunny, whose calm logic and...
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Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi
by Jon M Gibson Publisher Comments On par with auteurs like Walt Disney, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, and Art Spiegelman, Ralph Bakshi redefined animation and became a hero to countless generations of fans and filmmakers. If Disney's life and work evoke images of chaste princesses in gleaming...
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Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination (Vintage)
by Neal Gabler Publisher Comments The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history. Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first...
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The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney (Simpson Book in the Humanities)
by Michael Barrier Publisher Comments Walt Disney (1901-1966) was one of the most significant creative forces of the twentieth century, a man who made a lasting impact on the art of the animated film, the history of American business, and the evolution of twentieth-century American culture...
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Desene: Sketches & Scribbles
by Ovi Nedelcu Publisher Comments From the creator of the critically acclaimed comic Pigtale comes his new book, Desene: Sketches &Scribbles. Explore a host of sketches and designs by designer/illustrator Ovi Nedelcu, in their purest form and impulse. These sketches and scribbles are...
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The Art of Ray Harryhausen
by Ray Harryhausen Publisher Comments The huge ape of Mighty Joe Young. The fighting skeletons of Jason and the Argonauts. And, of course, the angry T. Rex of Island of the Gwangi. All these creations and many more, seared into our collective consciousness, are the work of one man--Ray...
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Walt Disney: Conversations (Conversations with Comic Artists)
by Kathy Merlo Jackson Synopsis Collected interviews and profiles spanning Walt Disney's career as the creator of Mickey Mouse and producer of such full-length animated classics as Snow White, Cinderella, Dumbo, Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan, and Pinocchio, along with countless other...
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Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life
by Ray Harryhausen Publisher Comments Ray Harryhausen is arguably the greatest stop-motion animator in the history of motion pictures, blazing new trails in special effects from the 1950s to the 1980s creating realistic dinosaurs, fantastic aliens, and imaginative mythological creatures...
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Halas & Batchelor Cartoons: An Animated History with DVD
by Vivien Halas Publisher Comments This richly illustrated work is a history, critical analysis, and celebration of the Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Studio, Britain's leading and most influential animation company from 1940 to 1995. This lavish study draws on the archives of the Halas &...
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Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii
by Brian Ruh Publisher Comments "A fine introduction to one of Japanese animation's few true auteurs, Stray Dog examines Oshii's films from both sides of the camera. Brian Ruh's work is scholarly but readable, and affirmative but critical -- an education for academics and fans alike...
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To Infinity and Beyond!: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios
by John Lasseter Synopsis In 1986, gifted animator John Lasseter, technology guru Ed Catmull, and visionary Steve Jobs founded Pixar Animation Studios. Their goal: create a computer animated feature, despite predictions that it could never be done. An unprecedented catalog of...
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The Animi Art of Hayao Miyazaki
by Dani Cavallaro Synopsis This critical study of the art of Hayao Miyazaki, director of the Academy Award]-winning "Spirited Away," begins with an analysis of the visual conventions of manga, Japanese comic books, and anime; an overview of Japanese animated films; and a...
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The Art and Flair of Mary Blair: An Appreciation
by John Canemaker Synopsis The stylishness and vibrant color of Disney films in the early 1940s through mid-1950s came primarily from artist Mary Blair. In her prime, she was an amazingly prolific American artist who enlivened and influenced the not-so-small worlds of film, print,...
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A Cast of Friends
by Bill Hanna Publisher Comments For more than sixty years, Bill Hanna has made entertaining children and the young at heart his ”business.” In A Cast of Friends, he offers an engaging look at his decades in animation and at the people who helped make it all possible. Hanna...
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Chuck Jones: Conversations (Conversations with Comic Artists)
by Maureen Furniss Publisher Comments Chuck Jones: Conversations brings to life the legendary Warner Bros. artist who helped shape the history of American animation, defining our impressions of such characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, and Pepe le Pew. These...
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The Moose That Roared: The Story of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, a Flying Squirrel, and a Talking Moose
by Keith Scott Publisher Comments For those of us who love The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, these names conjure up memories of some of the wittiest, most inspired, and relentlessly hilarious half-hours of animation ever produced. There was a kind of gleeful magic to the shows, a cumulative...
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The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney
by Michael Barrier Publisher Comments Walt Disney (1901-1966) was one of the most significant creative forces of the twentieth century, a man who made a lasting impact on the art of the animated film, the history of American business, and the evolution of twentieth-century American culture...
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Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
by Neal Gabler Publisher Comments A definitive portrait of a giant of twentieth-century American popular culture offers a meticulously researched study of the private life and public career of Walt Disney, from his deprived and disciplined youth, to his seminal contributions to the art...
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The Moose That Roared: Talking Moose
by Keith Scott Publisher Comments The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show featured some of the wittiest, most inspired, and relentlessly hilarious animation ever created. The legendary Jay Ward and Bill Scott produced the gleeful wonder and cumulative joy that transcended the crude drawings and...
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