Recommended Animation Books
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| 3-D Human Modeling and Animation | Peter Ratner |
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| 3D Creature Workshop | Bill Fleming |
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| 3D Graphics and Animation: From Starting Up to Standing Out | Mark Giambruno |
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| 3-D Human Modeling and Animation | Peter Ratner |
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| 3D Studio for Beginners | Jim Lammers |
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| 3D Studio Hollywood & Gaming Effects | David Carter |
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| 3D Studio Ipas Plug-In Reference/Book and CD-Rom | Tim Forcade |
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| Animation Book, The | Kit Laybourne |
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| Edwin George Lutz |
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| Eric Loren Smoodin |
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| Jeff Lotman, Jonathan Smith |
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| Jeff Lotman, Jonathan Smith |
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| John A. Lent |
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| Animation: From Script to Screen | Shamus Culhane |
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| Animator's Workbook | Tony White |
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| Anime!: Movie Guide | Helen McCarthy |
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| Art of Anastasia: A Twentieth Century Fox Presentation | Harvey Deneroff |
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| Stephen Rebello |
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| Stephen Rebello |
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| Bambi: The Sketchbook Series | ||
| Before the Animation Begins: The Art and Lives of Disney Inspirational Sketch Artists | John Canemaker |
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| Before Mickey : The Animated Film 1898-1928 | Donald Crafton |
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| Bugs Bunny : Fifty Years and Only One Grey Hare | Joe Adamson, Friz Freleng (Designer), Chuck Jones (Designer) |
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| A Bug's Life : The Art and Making of an Epic of Miniature Proportions | Jeff Kurtti |
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| Building a Company : Roy O. Disney and the Creation of an Entertainment Empire | Bob Thomas |
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| Cartoon
Animation: Basic Skills (How to Draw and Paint Series, No 25) |
Walter Foster |
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| Cartoon Animation Kit | Walter Foster |
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| Cartoon Animation (How to Draw and Paint Series) | Preston Blair |
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| Cartoon Animation: Introduction to a Career | Milton Gray |
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| Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation | Ginnalberto Bendazzi | |
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| Computer Animation: A Whole New World | Rita Street |
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| Character Animation in Depth | Doug Kelly |
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| Character Animation With 3d Studio Max | Stephanie Reese |
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| Chuck Amuck | Chuck Jones |
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| Chuck Reducks | Chuck Jones |
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| Creating 3-D Animation : The Aardman Book of Filmmaking | Peter Lord, Brian Sibley, Aardman Animations |
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Alchemy: The Films of Jan Svankmajer
Peter Hames
Digital
Character Animation
George
Maestri
Digital
Cinematography
Ben De
Leeuw
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Illusion: Entertaining the Future With High Technology (Siggraph series)
Clark Dodsworth,
Jr
Disney
Films, The
Leonard
Maltin
Disney's
Art of Animation: From Mickey Mouse to Hercules
Perucci
Ferraiuolo
Eric Loren
Smoodin (Editor)
Disney:
The Mouse Betrayed
Peter Schweizer,
Rochelle Schweizer
Mouse
Under Glass : Secrets of Disney Animation & Theme Parks
David Koenig
The
Disney Version : The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney
Richard
Schickel
Dreamland
Japan: Writings on Modern Manga
Frederik
Schodt
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Donald Crafton
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| Rick Goldschmidt, Burl Ives |
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| John Grant |
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| Experimental Animation: Origins of a New Art | Robert Russett |
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| Experimental Animation: Origins of a New Art | Robert Russett and Cecile Starr |
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| Felix: The Twisted Tale of the World's Most Famous Cat | John Canemaker |
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| The Five C's of Cinematography : Motion Picture Filming Techniques | Darrel Plant |
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| Flash 3! : Creative Web Animation | Darrel Plant |
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| The Fleischer Story | Leslie E Cabarga |
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| Forbidden Animation : Censored Cartoons and Blacklisted Animators in America | Karl F. Cohen |
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| The Gif Animator's Guide | Sandy Eddy Schnyder |
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| Glass & Reflection : Release 3 and 4/Book and Disk (3d Studio Tips & Tricks) | Michele Bousquet, Glenn Melenhorst |
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| The Great Cartoon Directors | Jeff Lenburg |
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| How to Draw Animation: Learn the Art of Animation from Character Design to Storyboard... | Christoper Hart |
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| Illusion of Life: Disney Animation | Ollie Johnston & Frank Thomas |
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| Dan Ablan, Patrik Beck, Mike Desantis, Bill Fleming, Bob Hood, David Hopkins |
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| Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann |
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| Let There Be Life! : Animating With the Computer | Christopher Baker |
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| Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons | Jerry Beck and Will Friedwald |
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| The Making of the Lost World : Jurassic Park | Jody Duncan |
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| Mickey Mouse : My Life in Pictures | Russell Schroeder, Disney Archives |
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| Mouse Under Glass: Secrets of Disney Animation & Theme Parks | David Koenig |
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| From Mouse to Mermaid : The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture | Elizabeth Bell (Editor), Lynda Haas (Editor), Laura Sells (Editor) |
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| Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons | By Leonard Maltin |
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| Painting With Light | John Alton |
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| Pinnocchio | Pierre Lambert |
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| Thomasine Lewis, Tommi Lewis |
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| Charles Solomon |
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| Principles of Three-Dimensional Computer Animation | Michael O'Rourke |
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| Pufnstuf & Other Stuff : The Weird and Wonderful World of Sid & Marty Krofft | David Martindale, Marty Krofft |
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| A Reader in Animation Studies | Jayne Pilling |
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| Reading the Rabbit : Explorations in Warner Bros. Animation | Kevin S. Sandler (Editor) |
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| Samurai from Outer Space: Understanding Japanese Animation | Antonia Levi |
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| Serious Business: The Art and Commerce of Animation in America from Betty Boop to Toy Story | Stefan Kanfer |
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| Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family | Matt Groening |
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| Sotheby's Guide to Animation Art | Linda Rosenkrantz, Christopher Robin Finch |
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| Speed Racer: The Official 30th Anniversary Guide | Elizabeth Moran |
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| Talking Animals and Other People | Shamus Culhane |
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| Tex Avery : King of Cartoons | Joe Adamson |
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| That's All Folks: The Art of Warner Bros. Animation | Steve Schneider |
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| That's Enough Folks : Black Images in Animated Cartoons, 1900-1960 | Henry T. Sampson |
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| Today's Top Animation Studios | Rita Street |
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| Toy Story; The Art and Making of the Animated Film | John Lasseter, Steve Daly |
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| Understanding Animation | Paul Wells | |
| Vinyl Leaves : Walt Disney World and America (Institutional Structures of Feeling) | Stephen M. Fjellman |
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| Walt Disney: An American Original | Bob Thomas | |
| Walt Disney's Peter Pan (The Sketchbook Series , No 5) | Walt Disney |
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| Walt Disney's Railroad Story : The Small-Scale Fascination That Led to a Full-Scale Kingdom | Michael Broggie, Ward Kimball |
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| Walt in Wonderland: The Silent Films of Walt Disney | J.B. Kaufman and Merritt Russell |
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