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.īesides 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 Fantasia and Pinocchio.
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. 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. In addition, each copy has been numbered and individually signed by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston' this is number 2817.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. 'Three thousand five hundred copies of the first Hyperion edition of "The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation" have been specially bound with sixteen drawings by the authors, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. Gilt-pictorial purple cloth lettered in gilt on the spine minimal foxing to the front endpaper, the first and last page of text, and the outer surfaces of the folded signed sheet (there is no foxing to the signed illustrated pages) very small name label affixed to the front flyleaf an excellent copy with the lightly marked slipcase (in matching cloth, lettered in gilt - with a mounted colour plate - on one side).
Square quarto, 575 pages with approximately 500 colour illustrations (and thousands of black and white ones) plus the signed folding sheet of printed colour illustrations tipped in before the half-title. New York, Hyperion, 1995 (first edition thus)/ 1981.
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