The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation (Disney Editions Deluxe)

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You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. If we are only obsessed with technology and cannot tell a good story, show a good character, a character, then even if we have powerful tools, It's just tangible and godless, unable to make truly great animation works. We hope that some readers will be stimulated to carry on these traditions and elevate this art form to an ever-higher level. Contact animators, must not only be allowed one aspect but to be in several different fields have reserves and knowledge.

The use of animation to inspire music to better fit the mood of the story and characters by not having prescored music is interesting and opens many doors for animators.It is an incredible document - essentially an oral history of the Disney Studio and their practices by two master animators who worked there for 40+ years. He would say, we don't know if it's art, but I know I like it,'' and he felt intuitive that if he liked it the rest of the world would like it, too—if only he could find the right way to present it. No matter what the devil one talks about—whether force or form, or well-drawn characters, timing, or spacing—animation is all these things—not anyone.

I thought and thought about getting this book-I had seen online videos of it and really wasn’t sure. Of the many books on animation and Disney, The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation is probably the best. The authors' pride in their work shines through, and it's astonishing how much time, effort, and teamwork went into each movie, especially without the aid of computers. He was an animator at Walt Disney Studios from 1935 to 1978, and became a directing animator beginning with Pinocchio, released in 1940.I loved reading about Disney's animation from the viewpoint of two veteran Disney animators, as there were so many great anecdotes and in-jokes to be found here. I loved the continuous flip book in the upper right hand corner of this tome, and I spent countless hours of my childhood looking at images of the Disney films I loved, and photographs of the people who made them. I highly recommend The Illusion of Life to Disney devotees, and to anyone wanting to know more about animation and its history. The real thing behind this is: we are in the motion picture business, only we are drawing them instead of photographing them.

However, the creator must not be able to clearly know everything in the entire life of this character. Thomas and Johnston, two of Disney's original animators, here give the inside scoop on how the studio created the works that have charmed the world. Like Balzac once said that he was not the creation of those figures, but he described those figures, by the nature of his pen flowing out, the tool this time, he has become an expression of it. From the perspective of two men who had an important role in shaping the art of animation, and within the context of the history of animation and the growth of the Disney studio, this is the definitive volume on the work and achievement of one of America’s best-known and most widely loved cultural institutions.It was never too late to make a change; nothing was ever set as long as the possibility existed that it could _ be made to relate better to the overall picture or communicate more strongly with the audience.