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Before the Animation Begins: The Art and Lives of Disney Inspirational Sketch Artists

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Author: John Canemaker
Publisher: Disney Editions
Category: Book

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Sales Rank: 127747

Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.2
Dimensions (in): 11.9 x 11.8 x 1

ISBN: 0786861525
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.43092279493
EAN: 9780786861521
ASIN: 0786861525

Publication Date: November 14, 1996
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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com Review
For the first time ever, noted animation historian and animator John Canemaker documents the lives and works of Disney's "inspirational sketch artists" from the 1930s to the present. These are the people who visualize all the details surrounding each character in the initial creative period before the grueling labor of animation begins. "Through daydreams and doodles, they attempt to 'find' the film." The happy result of these flights of fancy are dancing ostriches and personality-rich broomsticks. Drawings and paintings of Disney characters leap right off the pages of this lush book, where you'll find pastels from Fantasia, faux wood-cuts of the Seven Dwarfs, paintings of Alice in Wonderland, and hundreds of other delightful, rarely seen images.

The stories of artists such as Ty Wong, who created Bambi, and Bianca Majolie, the first woman to join the story department at Walt Disney (in 1935), are as provocative as their art. Canemaker does a fine job of placing the artists' lives and interactions with Disney studios in the historical context of modern art. Before the Animation Begins is a beautiful book.

Product Description
For the first time ever, the lives and work of the "inspirational sketch" artists who created Disney's classic animated films have been chronicled from the thirties to the present, with never-before-revealed details about their lives and interactions with the studios.

Customer Reviews:
5 out of 5 stars

Disney Insperation July 13, 2010
Douglas B. Barr (san lorenzo, california United States)
Have you ever dreamed of approaching Walt Disney Studios with your own idea for a story they should make into a feature? The perfect story, but how could you get them to see that it was perfect for them? This is a book about people who can do that. If a story were perfect for Disney, these are the artists who will get the studio to understand that it is perfect. They all share Walt Disneys greatest skill: the ability to get others excited about something wonderfull, and they are able to do it thru artwork. Usually their labors are never appreaciated by the public, as beautifull as they are. This is beautifull artwork that is meant only for other artists to appreaciate and be inspired by.
Canemakers own labors have allowed us to appreaciate them as well for once, and also allow us to get to know what kind of people are able to do it. Awesome

5 out of 5 stars

Best of the Best April 20, 2008
Pamela J. Martin
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

John Canemaker is the best animation author in the business, and I own all of his books to date. Before the Animation Begins is beautifully illustrated and so informative--it is a book I pick up again and again. It is a must have for all Disney animation fans.

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