Layout & Background

Walt Disney Animation Studios: The Archive Series #4

by Walt Disney Animation Research Libr

This fourth installment in The Archive Series showcases the scenic background and layout art that gives every piece of Disney animation a time and place. The Animation Research Library and curator John Lasseter, the Walt Disney Animation Studios Chief Creative Officer, have assembled over 300 pieces of artwork from the company's shorts and masterpieces from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Tangled, and even the upcoming Winnie the Pooh. With many two-page spreads and several 30-inch gate-folds, Backgrounds
& Layouts includes famous as well as unpublished work of the great layout artists and background painters such as Eyvind Earle, Claude Coats, Walter Peregoy, Maurice Noble, James Coleman, Serge Michaels, Al Dempster, Bill Layne, Art Riley, Brice Mack, and Lisa Keene. Collectors and animation enthusiasts couldn't be more thrilled with the first three books in the series, and they are eager to add Backgrounds & Layouts to their libraries.

Genres: Art, Drawing, Nonfiction, Art Design, Reference, Design, Film

274 pages, Hardcover

First published October 25, 2011

Reviews

[James Burks · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is filled with beautiful artwork. It's very inspiring and would be a welcome addition to any artist's reference collection.

[Gijs Grob · Rating 4 out of 5]

The fourth and last entry in the Walt Disney Animation Studios Archive Series is a large coffee table book devoted to layout (mostly in black and white) and background art (mostly in color). It's nice to be able to gaze at the often very beautiful and intricate background art of Disney shorts and features. Especially pan shots can now be watched in their entirety. Of course, background art of most of Disney's feature films is included, but my personal favorites are the backgrounds for the shorts 'Modern Inventions' (1937), 'Defense Against Invasion' (1943), and 'Pigs is Pigs' (1954), all by anonymous artists. At the end of the book there are photographs of the known artists in this book.

As with the other Archive Series entries, this is a picture book. There's practically no text, let alone useful information. But the art inside certainly is beautiful.

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

With the exception of introduction and acknowledgement sections this book lets the stunning background and layout art shine without comment. It goes in chronological order, is beautifully printed, and included so many of my favorites (Sleeping Beauty, Dumbo, Frozen, etc.) that I was completely drawn in to every single page.

[Scott Andrews · Rating 5 out of 5]

does not get any better than this. amazing content. quality book. foldouts!

[Eduardo Pinzón · Rating 4 out of 5]

me interesa mucho saber sobre diseño de arte de escenarios. por eso deseo revisar y leerlo.

[Tory · Rating 5 out of 5]

An amazing collection of art, and a beautiful book for anyone interested in art and film and/or Disney fans. Aside from the forward at the beginning and credits, it's entirely art, and it's pretty big too. You could spend hours looking over every detail! There's work from the early Disney stuff like some of the Mickey shorts and Silly Symphonies to more recent ones like The Princess and the Frog and Tangled.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice sample of backgrounds from the very beginning of Disney animation to The Princess and the Frog. There were a couple of films I felt they could have used more impressive backgrounds or given a few more examples of. Namely, Atlantis: the Lost Empire, Hercules, Mulan, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

[Kayla · Rating 2 out of 5]

Feel like a lot of this could have been/was covered in the Design book. Beautiful artwork, just not sure it adds much to the series.

[Ahmed Sparrow · Rating 5 out of 5]

I want read

[Elen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Recension dyker förhoppningsvis upp snart!

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