Saturday 10 February 2024

New Books for The Animation & VFX Library

New books on Storyboarding in the Anim & VFX Library
We have more new books for the Animation & VFX Library on the 11th Floor at 6 Mitre Passage, Escape Studios' new home in North Greenwich.

New books include The Storyboard Design Course: The Ultimate Guide by Guiseppe Cristiano, a collection of Wallace & Gromit storyboards from Aardman Animation, and a new copy of Richard Williams' Animator's Survival Kit "Minis" - on Animating Walks. 

New Books 
Animation Library 11th Floor
We have many other new books for the library - you can see some of them below:

The Visual Story by Bruce Block
New books include the The Visual Story by Bruce Block, an important work on the visual language of film. 

Bruce Block taught visual design classes to the development artists at Warner Bros Feature Animation back in the 1990s.  
The Visual Story by Bruce Block

Cartooning Animation
Preston Blair's book on Cartooning Animation was one of the first how-to books on animation.  

Preston Blair was one of the finest animators from the early days of the Walt Disney Studios.  Blair worked on Fantasia (1940), animating the Mickey Mouse scenes in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" - and the hippo-alligator dance in the "Dance of the Hours".
Animator's Survival Kit - Walks

The Hero With a Thousand Faces is  is a work of comparative mythology by Joseph Campbell, one of the classic resources on story and storytelling - the source of myths and stories for thousands of years.

Animation & VFX Library
The Escape Studios Animation & VFX Library is located on the 11th Floor outside Toontown at 6 Mitre Passage, our new home in North Greenwich, we have many books available to be checked out on animation, games and visual effects.  

DVDs
We have DVDs too
We also have a large collection of animation, live action and VFX movies including classics like Robots, The Matrix, SpiderMan and Star Wars.  

Books by Subject
We have books on the following subjects:
  • Animation
  • Games
  • VFX - 2D (Compositing)
  • VFX - 3D 
  • Concept Art & Vis Dev
  • Story & Storyboarding
  • Comics & Graphic Novels
  • Art & Design
  • Producing Anim & VFX

Sign Out - Two Weeks Maximum
As always, make sure you check the books out in the orange Library Book (see photo on the right), leaving your name, the name of the book checked out, the author's name, your email address, and the date you checked it out.  Also don't forget to sign the books back in again so we know they have been returned. 

Cracking Animation, Gromit!
New books include the Hue Book of Animation - a great guide for getting started if you've never animated before - and Cracking Animation by Aardman Animation, the team behind Wallace & Gromit (and the new Chicken Run movie, released on Netflix on 15 December).  

Producing Animation
We also have two new copies of "Producing Animation", by Katherine Winder and Zahra Dowlatabadi.  

Free to Use - For Two Weeks
The animation library is free, but please don't keep books for more than two weeks. 

Online Library
We also have an online library, where books can be accessed digitally.  To login in to the online library at Escape Studios, follow this link.
New Pixar Studio books

New Books - Pixar
We've recently acquired some more new books for the Escape Studios Animation library, where we keep traditional hard copies (ie actual physical books) on the 11th Floor at 6 Mitre Passage.  

The new books are "Pixar Storytelling" and "Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination", new titles which will help our 2nd year animators as they start their group film projects. 

The Animation Library is located just outside Toontown classroom on the 11th Floor.

Escape Studios Animation Library
Check out the books in the orange book
The Escape Studios Animation Library (a traditional library, with actual books) is located on the 11th Floor at 6 Mitre Passage, outside Toontown classroom.  

Into The Spiderverse
New books this year include "The Art of Spiderman - Into the Spiderverse", and "The Art of Frozen", and also "Directing the Story" by Disney director Francis Glebas.

Free - But Please Sign Out
New Books - Into The Spiderverse
All the books are free to borrow and read, but you must sign them out with your name, email address and date in the little Orange Library Book (see image on the right). 

The Animator's Survival Kit
There are many useful books in Online Library and the traditional library. We have many physical copies of "The Animator's Survival Kit", and also many titles on development, character and creature animation, independent film finance, acting, and design.  Recent additions include a biography of Walt Disney and also books on animating in Maya.

Prepare to Board
Animator's Survival Kit
Recently we acquired more copies of "Prepare to Board" by Nancy Beiman, on the Art of Storyboarding - a vital skill for the making of all our short films.

We also have online copies of these (and many other) books; just follow the link to the online library and start searching.

Orange Library Book
To sign books out of the physical library, please use the Orange Library Book, where you can sign the books out, leaving the date, your name, the title borrowed and your email address. 

Two Weeks Maximum
For physical books, the maximum loan is two weeks. Please sign the books back in again within two weeks.

Library & Learning Resources
To see more about library and other learning resources at Escape Studios, follow these links:

Online Library
We also have an online library, where books can be accessed digitally.  To login in to the online library at Escape Studios, follow this link.

The Escape Studios Animation Blog offers a personal view on the art of animation and visual effects. To apply for one of our courses, follow this link.  


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