New books include Shamus Culhane's classic work on animation - "Animation - From Script to Screen". Shamus Culhane was a product of the Golden Age of Animation, contributing to classic films such as Fantasia, and working on iconic characters such as Betty Boop. Culhane's book explains the animation process from start to finish, a process which - despite new technology - has changed little in the past 100 years.
New Books
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| Animation & VFX Library 11th Floor 6 Mitre Passage |
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.
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| 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".
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| 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
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| We have DVDs too |
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
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.
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| 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.
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.
The Escape Studios Animation Library (a traditional library, with actual books) is located on the 11th Floor at 6 Mitre Passage, outside Toontown classroom.
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).
Prepare to Board
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.
Escape Studios Animation Library
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| Check out the books in the orange book |
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
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| New Books - Into The Spiderverse |
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.
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| Animator's Survival Kit |
We also have online copies of these (and many other) books; just follow the link to the online library and start searching.
For physical books, the maximum loan is two weeks. Please sign the books back in again within two weeks.
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.
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
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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