The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation by Ollie Johnston

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 with Walt Disney himself as well as other leading figures in a half-century of Disney films. They personally animated leading characters in most of the famous films and have decades of close association with the others who helped perfect this extremely difficult and time-consuming art form. Not to be mistaken for just a "how-to-do-it," this voluminously illustrated volume (like the classic Disney films themselves) is intended for everyone to enjoy. Besides relating the painstaking trial-and-error development of Disney's character 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 Read more

From the Publisher Directing at Disney: The Original Directors of Walt's Animated Films Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Visual Companion (Disney Editions... Add to Cart Add to Cart Customer Reviews 67 63 Price $23 30 $27 89 More behind-the-scenes of Walt Disney Animation Studios! These personal portraits of Walt Disney’s closest creative leaders (from the 1920s to 1970s) offer a fuller picture behind the stories, characters, and magical realms in Disney’s beloved and respected animated films. This enchanting coffee table book features new interviews with the filmmakers and rare images from the Disney and Burton art collections!