Walt Disney Animation

Animation - The New Art Form - The Disney Studios are, without a doubt, the most popular practitioner of this new art form. Learn about how they view their work, the hurdles they had to overcome, and their dreams for the future in these books, many of which were written by the people who created the movies.

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Listed in Alphabetical Order, by movie ...

Disney's Aladdin : The Making of an Animated Film
by John Culhane
119 Pages - Hardcover - November 1992

A soft cover Reprint Edition (September 1993) is also available.
Size in inches: 9 x 11

Walt Disney's Bambi : The Sketchbook Series
by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston
88 Pages - Hardcover - April 1997
Size in inches: 10 x 12

The Art of Hercules : The Chaos of Creation
by Stephen Rebello, Jane Healey
Hardcover - 200 pages (June 1997)
Size in inches: 12 x 11

The Art of The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Stephen Rebello
199 Pages - Hardcover - June 1996

Softcover - November 1997

Limited Edition - For Collectors ...
112 Pages - September 1998

The Art of The Little Mermaid
by Jeff Kurtti
A Disney Miniature
192 Pages - Softcover - November 1997
Size in inches: 6 x 5

The Art of The Lion King
By Christopher Finch, Charles Finch, James E. Jones
193 Pages - Hardcover - July 1994
Size in inches: 14 x 11

The Art of Mulan
By Jeff Kurtti
192 Pages - Hardcover - June 1998
Size in inches: 14 x 11
The Legend of Mulan
A Folding Book inspired by the movie
96 Pages - Hardcover - June 1998
Size in inches: 7 x 5
Sketches, pre-production art work,
images from the movie,
and the ancient Chinese poem

Disney's Mulan
By Russell Schroder
72 Pages - Hardcover Collector's Edition - June 1998
Size in inches: 10 x 8
Reading Level: Ages 9 - 12
Disney's Mulan
By Judie Clark, Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
48 Pages - Hardcover - June 1998
Size in inches: 12 x 10
Reading Level: Ages 4 - 8

Pinocchio
A coffee table book ...

The Art of Pocahontas
by Stephen Rebello
Hardcover - June 1995
Size in Inches: 13 x 11

Hardcover 1996 Edition

Sleeping Beauty

Limited Edition ... For the Collector ... September 1997
Walt Disney's Sketchbook Series

Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
An Art in its Making

Featuring the collection of Stephen H.Ison
by Martin Krause
1995 Hardcover
A Disney Miniature

Toy Story
The Art and Making
of the Animated Film
By John Lasseter, Steve Daly
Large Format - 128 Pages - 1995
Size in inches: 14 x 11
This book was our first introduction to the series of Disney books telling the story behind the making of the movies. After reading it and viewing the wonderful color images, we had a new appreciation for the movie, the animator's views of the characters, the initial sketches and characters that never made it into the movie, and the tremendous amount of work that went into it. Since this was the first of the totally computer generated animated Disney classics, this book could very well become a much sought after collector's item.

Highly recommended by us.


The Classic Books on Disney Animation

"Disney's Art of Animation: From Mickey Mouse to Beauty and the Beast"
by Bob Thomas
The History of the Disney company from the 1930s to the 1990s, as well as the story behind Disney animation.
Softcover, Published 1992

"The Art of Walt Disney : From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdom"
Hard Cover - 451 Pages - Published October 1995
Size in inches: 12 x 10

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