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Jul 13, 2016 Gijs Grob rated information technology information technology was amazing

'Animation Fine art' has one of the about hideously ugly covers around. It's a inexpensive, just also cheap-looking book with a design non-expert enough to exist able to put y'all off (the biggest design failure being page 180, in which part of the text is lost).

This is a pity, as text-wise this book conspicuously is a labor of love. Written by no less than 22 authors (e.g. David Gerstein, Mike Mayerson and Fred Patten), it is a celebration of about a century of blitheness, from the first experiments in animated drawin

'Animation Art' has one of the most hideously ugly covers around. Information technology'southward a inexpensive, but also cheap-looking volume with a design amateurish enough to exist able to put y'all off (the biggest design failure being page 180, in which part of the text is lost).

This is a pity, every bit text-wise this book clearly is a labor of love. Written past no less than 22 authors (e.1000. David Gerstein, Mike Mayerson and Fred Patten), information technology is a celebration of almost a century of blitheness, from the first experiments in animated drawing to the well-nigh modern CGI.

Moreover, unlike Leonard Maltin's 'Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons; Revised and Updated' or Charles Solomon'south 'The History of Animation: Enchanted Drawings' it doesn't restrict itself to the United States, merely tries to embrace globe animation, with notable capacity on e.1000. Japanese, Chinese, British, French, Hungarian, Yugoslavian and Russian animation industries. In this respect, information technology'southward a more attainable and less cerebral version of Bendazzi's 'Cartoons: 1 Hundred Years of Movie theater Animation'.

With such a scope histories, of class, remain sketchy and at their worst consist of lists of titles, but. However, this is compensated past an abundance of color illustrations, which certainly invite the reader to expect for the films himself. Moreover, I could find merely a few small errors and omissions - the exclusion of Martin Rosen and Jan Švankmajer beingness the nearly unforgivable.

'Animation Art' is thus a great introduction to the rich world of blitheness, and equally such recommended to everyone with even the slightest interest in it.

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Actually inclusive, sometimes it briefly explains some interesting animation techniques. A really beautiful volume with a lot of images of beautiful and actually different animation. Some non-english film titles are missing in their own language.

Jul 10, 2010 Rene rated it information technology was amazing

This is an interesting book. Information technology chronicles the entire history of animation from "Gertie the Dinosaur" to the latest films from Pixar and Dreamworks. This is an interesting book. Information technology chronicles the entire history of animation from "Gertie the Dinosaur" to the latest films from Pixar and Dreamworks. ...more

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Jerry Brook (born February 9, 1955 in New York City) is an American animation historian, writer, blogger, and video producer. The author or editor of several books on classic American animation and archetype character, including The 50 Greatest Cartoons (1994), The Animated Movie Guide (2005), Not Just Cartoons: Nicktoons! (2007), The Flintstones: The Official Guide to the Cartoon Classic (2011), The Jerry Beck (born Feb ix, 1955 in New York City) is an American animation historian, author, blogger, and video producer. The author or editor of several books on classic American animation and classic character, including The fifty Greatest Cartoons (1994), The Animated Motion-picture show Guide (2005), Not Just Cartoons: Nicktoons! (2007), The Flintstones: The Official Guide to the Cartoon Classic (2011), The Hanna-Barbera Treasury: Rare Fine art Mementos from your Favorite Drawing Classics (2007), The SpongeBob SquarePants Experience: A Deep Dive into the World of Bikini Bottom (2013), Pink Panther: The Ultimate Guide (2005), and Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Consummate Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons (with Will Friedwald, 1989). He is also an authority on the making of modern films, with his books detailing the art of Mr. Peabody and Sherman, DreamWorks' Madagascar, and Bee Movie. Beck is likewise an entertainment industry consultant for Tv and domicile entertainment productions and releases related to classic cartoons and operates the weblog "Cartoon Research." He appears ofttimes equally a documentary subject and sound commentator on releases of A&Eastward's Cartoons Get To War likewise as DVD collections of Looney Tunes, Popeye the Sailor, and Woody Woodpecker cartoons, on which he serves a consultant and curator.

Early in his career, Beck collaborated with film historian Leonard Maltin on his book Of Mice and Magic (1980), organized blitheness festivals in Los Angeles, and was instrumental in founding the international publication Animation Mag. In the 1990s, Beck taught grade on the art of animation at UCLA, NYU, and The Schoolhouse of Visual Arts. In 1993, he became a founding fellow member of the Drawing Network advisory board and he currently serves every bit president of the ASIFA-Hollywood board. He co-produced or was a consultant on many home entertainment compilations of Looney Tunes, MGM Cartoons, Disney Home Video, Betty Boop, and others. In 1989, he co-founded Streamline Pictures and first brought such anime as Akira, Vampire Hunter D, and Miyazaki'due south Laputa: Castle in the Heaven to the United States. He himself compiled collections of cartoons of Warner Bros., Woody Woodpecker, and the Fleischer Studios. As Vice President of Nickelodeon Movies, he helped develop The Rugrats Movie (1998) and Mighty Mouse.

In 2006, Brook created and produced an animated pilot for Frederator Studios and Nickelodeon. That drawing, "Hornswiggle", aired on Nicktoons Network in 2008 as part of the Random! Cartoons serial. Currently, he is teaching animation history at Woodbury Academy in Burbank, California.

In 2004, Beck and fellow animation historian and writer Among Amidi co-founded another blog, Cartoon Brew, which focused primarily on electric current animation productions and news. Beck sold his co-ownership in Drawing Brew in February 2013 and started an Indiewire blog, Animation Scoop, for reports on current animation while continuing to write well-nigh classic blitheness at Drawing Research.

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