Based on a lifetime spent employed with Disney, offers hands-on advice, techniques, and insight into the animation industry using examples from the past, present, and future.
This edition has been updated with additional material from the Suskind family.
;Anecdotal, insightful and honest, "An Animated Life" features
Presents the life of the independent cartoonist and animator, including his childhood influences, experiences as an Oscar nominee, and reaction to an offer to work for Disney.
... be sorely tested but I never really gave up hope. “I'm betting Steven will come through,” I insisted to the man in the mirror. “He's somewhere out there.” “Somewhere out there ...” mused the reflection. “Great title for a song.” ...
She asked us in, and quickly made my mother a glass of tea.'What happened, Mrs Gross?Atthis timeofday – in yournightgown? Wheredid you come from?'Mrs Janiczkowa enquired nervously. 'I'll tell you everything as soon as I've had afew ...
Ross Holt and debonair friend, Mount Washington, 1926 We also had perhaps the most vital environmental rule of all: parents who gave us the opportunity to draw, free from excessive criticism, and free from excessive praise—Mother, ...
Anthony Haden-Guest, The Paradise Program (New York, 1973), 297. 30. ... Gruen's career and ideas are the subject of a harsh book-length critique by M. Jeffrey Hardwick, Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, ... Johnston, 1973 Bob Thomas interview.
From early experiments with animating fairy tales in his father’s garage to creating groundbreaking effects for blockbuster movies, Ray Harryhausen shares the fascinating story of his “animated life”.
"This book is important not just as a biography, but also as a cultural history that provides great insight to one of the best-known creative minds of the twentieth century.
He traces the development of the art at Disney, the forces that led to full animation, the whiteness of Snow White and Mickey Mouse becoming a logo.