Discusses the techniques and people involved in creating Disney's animated films, from the first story idea to opening night

Animation Magic Book: Behind the Scenes Look At How an Animated Film is Made

Children's Books

Hahn, Don

Arts, Music & Photography

Disney Press

Children will learn all there is to know about animation with this kit by leading authority Don Hahn. By drawing on many of Disney's beloved productions, the book gives a brief history of animation and then explores the roles of directors, story artists, songwriters, animators, and all of the other people who play an integral part in the creative process. Easy-to-follow instructions help children make a number of projects. Included in the kit are an animation peg bar, paper, acetate sheets, colored markers, two pencils (just like the kind Disney's animators use!), two flip books, a die-cut-out zoetrope model, and a real piece of Disney film footage!

Disney's Animation Kit

Taken from many of Disney's best loved animated films, a fascinating foray into the world of animation delves into the roles of the directors, story artists, songwriters, and animators who each play an important part in the creation of an animated feature and has been updated to include new artwork from such new films as Tarzan, Toy Story 2, and Dinosaur.

Animation Magic 2001 (Disney Editions Deluxe (Film))

Disney Books

Discusses the techniques and people involved in creating Disney's animated films, from the first story idea to opening night.

Disney's Animation Magic: A Behind-The-Scenes Look at How an Animated Film Is Made

Hyperion

Winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture and the Academy Award for Best Song and Best Score, The Lion King roars into theaters on January 1, 2003, exclusively in large screen formats around the world. The Lion King -A Giant Leap offers an exciting look at the technological innovations that allowed the animators to return to their original images and then enhance them for a bigger screen, as well as showcasing the development of the unique and luxuriant artwork behind the film, inspired by the majestic landscapes of the African savannah.

The Lion King: A Giant Leap (Disney Editions Deluxe (Film))

Literature & Fiction

Disney Editions

Provides tips and offers suggestions for getting in touch with one's creative side through a review of the various stages in the creative process and a humorous exploration of the struggle people experience in trying to connect to it. 25,000 first printing.

Dancing Corndogs in the Night: Reawakening Your Creative Spirit

The Alchemy of Animation: Making an Animated Film in the Modern Age is a step-by-step introduction to animated filmmaking from one of the foremost producers of animated features. By drawing (sorry!) upon more than seven decades of Disney’s classic and beloved animated films, this stunning book explores the role of the directors, story artists, songwriters, and animators who each play an integral role in the creation of an animated feature. This book includes a special focus on the digital techniques of filmmaking and fresh, behind-the-scenes work from the most current Disney films, including Chicken Little, Meet the Robinsons, and Bolt, as well as showing other forms of animation such as the stop-motion of Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach.

The Alchemy of Animation: Making an Animated Film in the Modern Age (Disney Editions Deluxe (Film))

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

Whether you're writing a novel, painting with watercolors, composing a symphony, or baking peanut butter cookies, creativity plays a crucial role in achieving satisfaction and excellence. But, for many of us, accessing our creative core is difficult, if not impossible. Now, acclaimed film producer Don Hahn offers his own unorthodox, yet highly effective methods for reawakening the creative spirit. Blending personal and often hilarious anecdotes with presciptive advice for rediscovering your creative self, Hahn explores the emotions that accompany creativity and discusses the important of constructing a creative environment. Hahn describes the creative process in stages and lists the forces that drive creativity: balance, chaos, persistence, truth--plus chocolate and coffee. Best of all, he demonstrates how his theories can be put into practice, using his own highly successful career as an example. Filled with humor and empathy, along with some good old-fashioned practical advice, Brain Storm takes readers on an exciting journey to creative greatness.

Brain Storm: Unleashing Your Creative Self

Comics & Graphic Novels

How To Create Comics & Manga

Before Ever After is a treasury of rare and unpublished lecture notes, photographs and drawings which reflect the culture of learning that Walt Disney curated to raise the level of his artists in preparation for their first feature: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Walt hand-picked instructors from the renowned Chouinard Art Institute to hold classes on action and drawing. He screened films for study. He brought in talent from Architect Frank Lloyd Wright to choreographer George Balanchine to humorist Alexander Woollcott to teach and inspire his team. The result is a stunning collection of transcripts and history which not only lay the artistic foundation for the animated art form, but also give us an intimate look inside the walls of Walt Disney's studio during a seminal and profoundly creative moment in time.

Before Ever After: The Lost Lectures of Walt Disney's Animation Studio (Disney Editions Deluxe)

Miller-Zarneke, Tracey

History & Criticism

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Don Hahn paints the incredible story of Walt Disney and his artists who influenced mid-century style and design with their modernist approach to films, books, architecture, and urban planning. Yesterday's Tomorrow is a valentine to an era of optimism, relaxed lifestyle, and innovative design; a large-format, general audience book, illustrated with rarely seen art and photography of the mid-20th century reflecting the unique style that Walt and his artists contributed to the era. If you've seen Sleeping Beauty, read Dwell Magazine, shopped at Design Within Reach, or watched Mad Men, this book is for you and all those who love this extraordinary era of Disney.

Yesterday's Tomorrow: Disney's Magical Mid-Century

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