Animation from Script to Screen

Culhane, Shamus

ISBN 10: 0312021623 / ISBN 13: 9780312021627

Published by St Martins Pr, 1989

About this Item

St Martins Pr ex-library copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Animation from Script to Screen
• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312021623
• ISBN 13: 9780312021627
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

Shamus Culhane, the animator who made the dwarfs in Snow White, achieves something few are able to: He makes it possible to learn a concrete skill from a book. Covering every aspect of film animation, from basic mechanics to giving creativity full play, and including writing, recording, acting, dialogue-even how to mange an animation studio of one's own, Culhane fulfills the promise of his title-"from script to screen."

Animation contains more than 130 illustrations, from the work of leading animators worldwide (including the author himself) to sketches that teach and graphic exercises for hands-on experience for the novice.

Reviews

This is basically a text for the tyro animator. Culhane, for many years with Walt Disney, discusses the role of each member of an animation team and the uses of computers, storyboarding, and music. Although he writes from his vast experience, the digressive and somewhat lecturing style is an impediment. For libraries having works such as Raul Da Silva's World of Animation (Kodak, 1979), Kit Laybourne's Animation Book (1978. o.p.), Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston's lavish Disney Animation ( LJ 12/15/81), and John Halas and Roger Manvell's older but still useful Technique of Film Animation (1976, 4th ed. o.p.), this is probably not essential. A better book by Culhane is his memoir, Talking Animals and Other People (LJ 3/1/86).
- Roy Liebman, California State Univ. Lib., Los Angeles
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