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| The Art of Disney Animation |
This classic book, donated by animation tutor Kevin Richards, features some of the best artwork created for the Disney studio on classic films such as Snow White, Pinocchio, Mary Poppins and Bedknobs and Broomsticks, showing just how important a strong sense of design was to the Disney Studio during its first golden age.
Our students at Escape Studios grew up with the Pixar movies in the modern digital age, but it's still important to study the classical Disney era, and learn from the masters who designed and created the medium that we work in today.
Thanks to animation tutor Kevin Richards for the kind donation.
Adventures in Animation
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| Adventures in Animation |
"Adventures in Animation" is Richard Williams' autobiography, a work-in-progress completed five years after his death by his wife and long-term collaborator Imogen Sutton. The book fills in many of the gaps in The Animator's Survival Kit, especially the early influences on Williams' work, animators like Grim Natwick and Milt Kahl.
Animator's Survival Kit
At Escape Studios we recommend one key textbook for learning animation - The Animator's Survival Kit, arguably the only book you need to learn the art and craft of animation. We have many copies in the 11th Floor Library for loan. ASK "Minis"
The Animator's Survival Kit, is a big book, heavy to carry around, and hence has also been published as a series of "mini" editions, breaking the book up into four sections. These are also available for loan in the library.
We also have many other books on learning animation, such as Shamus Culhane's classic work on animation - "Animation - From Script to Screen", as well as Preston Blair's book on Cartoon Animation - one of the first how-to books on animation.
Animation Books
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| Escape Studios' copy of Adventures in Animation |
Learning Resources
To see some of the many learning resources that students have at Escape Studios, see this blog post.
We also have many other new books for the Animation & VFX Library on the 11th Floor at 6 Mitre Passage.
Books on Screenwriting
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| New Books: On Directing Film and Save the Cat |
New books include "Save The Cat" by Blake Snyder on Screenwriting, and "On Directing Film" by Oscar-winning writer David Mamet. Both books offer important insights into visual storytelling.
And don't forget to make use of our Tutorial Channel - we have many hundreds of video tutorials on animation and VFX.
We have many other new books for the library - you can see some of them below:
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.
We also have a large collection of animation, live action and VFX movies including classics like Robots, The Matrix, SpiderMan and Star Wars.
Please check the books out in the orange Library Book, leaving your name, the name of the book checked out, the author's name, your email address, and the date you checked it out. Don't forget to sign the books back in again so we know they have been returned.
New Books
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| Animation & VFX Library 11th Floor 6 Mitre Passage |
Writing & Hollywood
"Adventures in The Screen Trade" by William Goldman, double-Oscar-winning writer who wrote "The Princess Bride" and David Niven's Hollywood autobiography "The Moon's a Balloon".
The Visual Effects Producer by Charles Finance and Susan Zwerman is the comprehensive handbook for any student learning the art of VFX Production - a creative blend of art, technology and finance.
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| Hollywood Memoirs by William Goldman and David Niven |
Shamus Culhane: Animation - From Script to Screen
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.
The Visual Story by Bruce Block
The Visual Story by Bruce Block, is 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 Cartoon 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.
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.
The Escape Studios Animation Library (a traditional library, with actual books) is located on the 11th Floor at 6 Mitre Passage, outside Toontown classroom.
Storyboarding - 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.
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.
Escape Studios Animation Library
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| Check out the books in the orange book |
Into The Spiderverse
New books include "The Art of Spiderman - Into the Spiderverse", and "The Art of Frozen".
Directing Animation
We also have many books on film-making and direction, inclduing "Directing the Story" by Disney director Francis Glebas.
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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.
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.
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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