Hahn, Don and Tracey Miller-Zarnecke Before Ever After: The
Lost Lectures of Walt Disney’s Animation Studio, 440 pages. Disney Editions, 2015. $40.
Anyone who knows anything about Walt Disney knows that he
had high standards of quality and pushed himself more than he ever pushed any
individual. In order to create high
quality shorts and prepare the entire studio of the herculean task of animating
an entire feature length film, he created his own in-house art school, drawing
upon experts close by and experts in house to give regular lectures to the lead
artists and the in-betweeners. Meet many
of the original Disney artist – not all of the well-known to Disney-philes, but
key figures nonetheless. Read their own words from their original lecture pages
and enjoy the added commentary by Han and Miller-Zarnecke to paint a picture of
the time and get into the details of the craft.
An artist, an animator, a computer animator, a story teller,
an art teacher, and even a movie director would learn much by slowly digesting
the words on these pages. 440 is a hefty
amount of information, even interspersed with photos and drawings. I can think of a half dozen people in my own
circles who would benefit greatly and be highly entertained by this. I don’t think it is for school libraries,
however.
PUBLIC – ESSENTIAL; GIFT – ADVISABLE. Cindy, Library Teacher
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