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Title: Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation
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Manufacturer: Focal Press
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| Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation by Focal Press A Treasure Chest! |
| Hans Bacher's retrospective of his years at Disney should be in every animation professional's library, actually it should be in every filmmaker's library. This is all the work that goes on behind the scenes to create the beauty we see on the screen. Hans is a genius when is comes to screen composition, color, visual motif. |
| Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation by Focal Press Amazing contents presented in not so amazing presentation |
Everything in it is golden. The information is superb. Definitely a must have for production artist interested in animation field.
I can see this book become the most sought book in animation field.
Filled with nothing but legendary works of arts.
Definitely a must have.
Now i have praised everything that i need to praise about the content, let's deal with the bad.
Everything will be perfect if only the publishers know the difference between a bad paper and a good paper.
For a hard cover book, i do not expect such poor quality of papers to be used.
It is a bit insulting to see maestro works such as Eyvind Earle's and many others to be presented in a low quality paper. The book is as guilty as Leonardo Da Vinci's glorified failure of his "Last Supper", if you know what i mean.
Everything is great but the presentation and the medium used ruin the supposedly a glorious victory. |
| Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation by Focal Press Lost opportunity |
| What a wonderful opportunity the publishers have squandered here. The author is clearly very informed and his own art work, outstanding. The illustrations are essentially wonderful too. So what's wrong? Lack of courage on the part of the publishers. A work of this magnitude needs to be reproduced at a size to fit its contents. The illustrations are very often way too small - little bigger than postage stamps at times - and even the full-pagers would have benefitted from a larger page to fill. The text is also far too brief - almost anecdotal and saying far less than it could. This book cries out for pages that are 2 - 3 times larger and the text demands a book of twice the length. It was extremely frustrating to peer at art work that so deserves to be reproduced at a good size on quality paper. Would I recommend it? Of course. Much of the art work has not to my knowledge been published elsewhere. Just make sure you have a magnifying glass to hand! |
| Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation by Focal Press Awesome Informitive and honest book |
Thanks you Hans Bacher for putting together his notes and thoughts from most of his experiences as an artist. As another artist it was really inciteful and refreshing to hear again what he had to say. Oh and the artwork is amazing. The fun he had doing all these pieces really shows.
Highly recommend this book. It's just as helpful and easy to read as the Animator's Survival Kit by Richard Williams. |
| Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation by Focal Press Fascinating from start to finish |
I knew Dreamworlds had a good chance to be good, but I never realized it would be that good! I was afraid it might be a book purely aimed at professional artists. It isn't. If you are interested in the history of the Disney Studio during the last 20 years, if you love concept art, and if you want to discover concept paintings from quite a few of the discarded projects Hans worked on at Disney just before he left, like My People, Wild Life or Fraidy Cat, get this book now. This is a "must-have" and a "must-read" (there is also beautiful art from Beauty and the Beast, Mulan,...). More interesting artwork in this book that in quite a few "art-ofs" released by Disney recently.
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| Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation by Focal Press Product Description |
Hans Bacher is acknowledged as one of the greats of production design for animation and he has been given unparalleled access to Disney's archives to uncover eye-popping examples of both his own work and that of his colleagues. With illustrations from Bambi, Mulan, Beauty and the Beast, Brother Bear and many more - it is a visual feast of never-before-seen artwork, complete with insight from the artist on how and why they were designed as they were.
Key features and benefits:
* Sneak a peak behind the scenes! With 400 never-before-seen illustrations from classic films like Bambi, Beauty and the Beast and Lilo & Stitch
* Learn from one of the true industry greats!Hans Bacher is one of the best known production designers in the industry
* Beautiful and insightful - offers inspiration to designers in animation, film and game |
