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Booklist of Suggested Reading

The following list contains categories with some book titles that are out-of-print; they are noted with an asterisk. These out-of-print books may be found in public libraries, used bookstores, or located through book-finding services.

Walt Disney Animation: Production, Artists, History

  • *Abrams, Robert and John Canemaker. "Treasures of Disney Animation Art." Abbeville Promotional, 1992.
  • Allan, Robin. "Walt Disney and Europe:European Influences on the Animated Feature Films of Walt Disney." Indiana University Press, 1999.
  • * Canemaker, John. "Before the Animation Begins: The Art and Lives of Disney Inspirational Sketch Artists." Hyperion, 1996.
  • Canemaker, John. "Paper Dreams: The Art & Artists of Disney Storyboards." Hyperion, 1999.
  • * Canemaker, John. "Storytelling in Animation: The Art of the Animated Image." Samuel French Trade, 1988.
  • * Culhane, John. "Disney's Aladdin: The Making of an Animated Film." Hyperion, 1992.
  • * Culhane, John. "Walt Disney's Fantasia." Abradale/Abrams, 1987.
  • Finch, Christopher. "The Art of Walt Disney: From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms." Harry N. Abrams, 1995.
  • Grant, John. "Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters: From Mickey Mouse to Hercules." Hyperion, 1998.
  • Greene, Katherine, Richard Greene, and Katherine Barrett. "The Man Behind the Magic: The Story of Walt Disney." Viking Press, 1991.
  • Grover, Ron. "The Disney Touch: How a Daring Management Team Revived an Entertainment Empire." Irwin Professional Publishers, 1991.
  • Hahn, Don. "Disney's Animation Magic: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How an Animated Film Is Made: Millennium Edition." Hyperion, 2000.
  • * Holliss, Richard and Brian Sibley. "The Disney Studio Story." Crown, 1990.
  • * Holliss, Richard and Brian Sibley. "Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and the Making of the Classic Film." Hyperion, 1994.
  • Jackson, Kathy Merlock. "Walt Disney: A Bio-Bibliography." Greenwood Press, 1993.
  • * Kinney, Jack. "Walt Disney and Other Assorted Characters: An Unauthorized Account of the Early Years at Disney." Random House, 1989.
  • * Krause, Martin and Linda Witkowski. "Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: An Art in Its Making." Hyperion, 1994.
  • Maltin, Leonard. The Disney Films. Hyperion, 2000.
  • * Mendlow, Ellen. "The Disney Poster: The Animated Film Classics from Mickey Mouse to Aladdin." Hyperion, 1993.
  • Merritt, Russell and J.B. Kaufman. "Walt in Wonderland: The Silent Films of Walt Disney." Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
  • Peet, Bill. "Bill Peet: An Autobiography." Houghton Mifflin, 1989.
  • * Rawls, Walton. "Disney Dons Dogtags: The Best of Disney Military Insignia from World War II." Abbeville Press Inc., 1992.
  • Schickel, Richard. "The Disney Version: The Life, the Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney." Ivan R. Dee, 1997.
  • * Solomon, Charles. "The Disney That Never Was: Stories and Art from Five Decades of Unproduced Animation." Hyperion, 1995.
  • * Thomas, Bob. "Disney's Art of Animation from Mickey Mouse to Hercules." Hyperion, 1997.
  • Thomas, Bob. "Walt Disney: An American Original." Hyperion, 1994.
  • * Thomas, Frank and Ollie Johnston. "Bambi: The Story and the Film." Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 1990.
  • * Thomas, Frank and Ollie Johnston. "The Disney Villain." Hyperion, 1993.
  • * Thomas, Frank and Ollie Johnston. "The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation." Hyperion, 1995. (Favorite of all Disney artists)
  • Thomas, Frank and Ollie Johnston. "Too Funny for Words: Disney's Greatest Sight Gags." Abeville Promotional, 1990.
  • Yoe, Craig. "The Art of Mickey Mouse." Hyperion, 1991.

Production Techniques

  • * Andersen, Yvonne. "Make Your Own Animated Movies and Video Tapes." Little Brown and Co., 1991.
  • Blair, Preston. "Cartoon Animation." Walter Foster Publishing, 1995.
  • Blair, Preston. "How to Animate Film Cartoons." Walter Foster Publishing, 1989.
  • Culhane, Shamus. "Animation from Script to Screen." St. Martin's Press, 1990.
  • Foster, Walter. "Cartoon Animation: Basic Skills." Walter Foster Publishers, 1989.
  • * Gray, Milton. "Cartoon Animation: Introduction to a Career." Samuel French Trade, 1991.
  • Halas, John. "Contemporary Animator." Focal Press, 1991.
  • Halas, John. "Film Animation: A Simplified Approach." Unipub, 1979.
  • * Heath, Robert. "Animation in Twelve Hard Lessons." R.P. Heath Productions, 1972.
  • * Jenkins, Patrick. "Animation: How to Draw Your Own Flipbooks, and Other Fun Ways to Make Cartoons Move." Kids Can Press, 1991.
  • Laybourne, Kit. "The Animation Book." Three Rivers Press, 1998.
  • Lutz, E. G. "Animated Cartoons: How They Are Made, Their Origin and Development." Gordon Press Publishers, 1976.
  • * Madsen, Roy. "Animated Film: Concepts, Methods, Uses." Interland Publishing, 1969.
  • * Salt, Brian G.D. "Basic Animation Stand Techniques." Pergamon Press, 1977.
  • * Solomon, Charles. "The Complete Kodak Animation Book." Eastman Kodak Co., 1983.
  • White, Tony. "The Animator's Workbook." Watson-Gutptill, 1988.
  • Winder, Catherine. "Producing Animation." Focal Press, 2001.

Animation Artists and Pioneers

  • Adamson, Joe. "Tex Avery: King of Cartoons." Da Capo Press, 1985.
  • * Barbera, Joseph. "My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century." Turner Publishers, 1994.
  • Cabarga, Leslie. "The Fleischer Story." Da Capo Press, 1988.
  • * Canemaker, John. "Tex Avery: The MGM Years, 1942-1955." Turner Publishers, 1996.
  • * Canemaker, John. "Winsor McCay: His Life and Art." Abbeville Promotional, 1990.
  • Cawley, John. "The Animated Films of Don Bluth." Image Publishers of New York, 1992.
  • * Crafton, Donald. "Emile Cohl, Caricature and Film." Princeton University Press, 1992.
  • Jones, Chuck. "Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist." Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989.
  • Jones, Chuck. "Chuck Reducks: Drawing from the Fun Side of Life." Warner Books, 1996.
  • Lenburg, Jeff. "The Great Cartoon Directors." Da Capo Press, 1993.
  • Russett, Robert and Cecile Starr. "Experimental Animation: Origins of a New Art." Da Capo Press, 1988.
  • Woolery, George W. "Animated TV Specials: The Complete Directory to the First 25 Years (1962-1987)." Scarecrow, 1990.

Animation History

  • * Adamson, Joe. "Bugs Bunny: Fifty Years and Only One Grey Hare." Henry Holt and Co., 1990.
  • * Beck, Jerry and Shalom Auslander. "'I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat': Fifty Years of Sylvester and Tweety." Henry Holt and Co., 1991.
  • Beck, Jerry and Will Friedwald. "Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Brothers Cartoons." Henry Holt and Co., 1989.
  • Bendazzi, Giannalberto. "Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation." Indiana University Press, 1995.
  • Brasch, Walter. "Cartoon Monickers: An Insight into the Animation Industry." Bowling iUniverse.com, 2000.
  • Canemaker, John. "Felix: The Twisted Tale of the World's Most Famous Cat." Da Capo Press, 1996.
  • Crafton, Donald. "Before Mickey: The Animated Film 1898-1928." University of Chicago Press, 1993.
  • * Frierson, Michael. "Clay Animation: American Highlights 1908 to the Present." Twayne, 1994.
  • * Gifford, Denis. "American Animated Films: The Silent Era: 1897-1929." McFarland and Co., 1990.
  • Hoffer, Thomas W. "Animation: A Reference Guide." Greenwood Press, 1982.
  • Kanfer, Stefan. "Serious Business: The Art and Commerce of Animation in America from Betty Boop to Toy Story." Scribner, 1997.
  • Lenburg, Jeff. "The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons." Checkmark Books, 1999.
  • Lent, John A. "Animation, Caricature, and Gag and Political Cartoons in the United States and Canada: An International Bibliography." Greenwood Press, 1994.
  • Maltin, Leonard. "Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons." New American Library Trade, 1990.
  • * Schneider, Steve. "That's All Folks: The Art of the Warner Brothers Animation." Henry Holt, 1990.
  • * Shull, Michael and David E. Wilt. "Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Short Films, 1939-1945." McFarland, 1987.
  • * Solomon, Charles. "Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation." Outlet, 1994.
  • Smoodin, Eric. "Animating Culture: Hollywood Cartoons from the Sound Era." Rutgers University Press, 1993.

Computer Animation

  • * Auzenne, Valliere Richard. "The Visualization Quest: A History of Computer Animation." Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994.
  • * Baker, Christopher. "Computer Illusion in Film and TV." Alpha Books, 1994.
  • Baker, Christopher. "Let There Be Life: Animating with the Computer." Walker and Co., 1997.
  • Foley, James. "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice." Addison-Wesley, 1995.
  • Goodman, Cynthia. "Digital Visions: Computers and Art." Harry Abrams, 1987.
  • Kerlow, Issac and Judson Rosebush. "Computer Graphics for Artists and Designers." Von Nostrand Reinhold, 1994.
  • Kundert-Gibbs, John. "Mastering Maya 3." Sybex, 2001.
  • Maestri, George. "Digital Character Animation." New Riders Publishing, 1999.
  • * Morrison, Mike. "Becoming a Computer Animator." Sams, 1994.
  • Ng, Kian Bee. "Digital Effects Animation Using Maya." Charles River Media, 1999.
  • Roncarelli, Robi. "Computer Animation Dictionary: Including Related Terms Used in Computer Graphics, Film and Video, Production and Desktop." Verlag, 1989.
  • Ruff, Barry and Gene Bodio. "Softimage Design Publishing Guide: Everything You Need to Master 3-D Modeling and Animation with Microsoft's Softimage." Coriolis Group, 1997.
  • Watt, Alan and Mark Watt. "Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques: Theory and Practice." Addison-Wesley, 1992.

Drawing (Human and Animal Figures)

  • Bridgman, George. "The Book of a Hundred Hands." Dover, 1972.
  • Bridgman, George. "Bridgman's Life Drawing." Dover, 1971.
  • Bridgman, George. "Heads, Features and Faces." Dover, 1973.
  • Calderon, William Frank. "Animal Painting and Anatomy." Dover, 1985.
  • * Campbell, Richard and Victor Carlson. "Visions of Antiquity: Neoclassical Figure Drawings." Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1993.
  • Edwards, Betty. "New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, The." J.P. Tarcher, 1999.
  • Hale, Robert Beverly. "Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters." Watson-Guptill, 1977.
  • Hale, Robert Beverly. "Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters." Watson-Guptill, 1989.
  • Hogarth, Burne. "Drawing the Human Head." Watson-Guptill, 1989.
  • Hogarth, Burne. "Dynamic Anatomy." Watson-Guptill, 1990.
  • Hogarth, Burne. "Dynamic Figure Drawing." Watson-Guptill, 1996.
  • Hultgren, Ken. "The Art of Animal Drawing: Construction, Action Analysis, Caricature." Dover, 1993.
  • Kley, Heinrich. "The Drawings of Heinrich Kley." Dover, 1979.
  • Mendelowitz, Daniel M. "Drawing." Stanford University Press, 1980.
  • Nicolaides, Kimon. "The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study." Houghton Mifflin, 1969.
  • Peck, Stephen Rogers. "Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist." Oxford University Press, 1990.
  • Ruby, Erik A. "The Human Figure: A Photographical Reference for Artists." Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979.

Photographic Reference (Human and Animal Figures)

  • Cody, John. "Atlas of Foreshortening: The Human Figure in Deep Perspective." Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1984.
  • Hince, Peter. "Illustrator's Reference Manual of Nudes." Book Sales, 1993.
  • Muybridge, Eadweard. "Human and Animal Locomotion." Dover, 1979. "Pose File." Books Nippan, 1995.

Film

  • Block, Bruce. "Visual Story, The: Seeing the Structure of Film, TV and New Media." Focal Press, 2001.
  • Carr, Robert and R.M. Hayes. "Wide Screen Movies: A History and Filmography of Wide Gauge Filmmaking." McFarland and Co., 1988.
  • Eisenstein, Sergei. "The Film Sense." Harcourt Brace, 1969.
  • Etteagui, Pete. "Cinematography: Screencraft." Focal Press, 1999.
  • Fielding, Raymond. "A Technological History of Motion Pictures and Television." University of California Press, 1984.
  • * Fielding, Raymond. "The Technique of Special Effects Cinematography." Butterworth-Heinemann, 1985.
  • Giannetti, Louis. "Understanding Movies." Prentice Hall, 1995.
  • * Heisner, Beverly. "Hollywood Art: Art Direction in the Days of the Great Studios." McFarland and Co., 1990.
  • Kawin, Bruce F. "How Movies Work." University of California Press, 1992.
  • Malkiewicz, Kris and Jim Fletcher. "Cinematography: A Guide for Film Makers and Film Teachers." Simon and Schuster, 1992.
  • Mascelli, Joseph V. "Five C's of Cinematography." Silman-James Press, 1998.
  • Sharff, Stefan. "The Elements of Cinema: Toward a Theory of Cinesthetic Impact." Columbia University Press, 1982.

Magazines

  • "American Artist." P.O. Box 1944 Marion, OH 43305.
  • "The Artist's Magazine." P.O. Box 2081, Harlan, IA 51593
  • "Animation Magazine." 30101 Agoura Court, Suite 110, Agoura Hills, CA 91301.
  • "Cinefex." P.O. Box 20027, Riverside, CA 92516.

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