Animation from Script to Screen

Animation from Script to Screen by Culhane, Shamus. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780312021627.

Shamus Culhane, the animator who made the dwarfs in Snow White, achieves something few are able to: He makes it possible to learn a concrete skill from a book. Covering every aspect of film animation, from basic mechanics to giving creativity full play,and including writing, recording, acting, dialogue-even how to mange an animation studio of ones own, Culhane fulfills the promise of his title-"from script to screen." Animation contains more than 130 illustrations, from the work of leading animators worldwide (including the author himself) to sketches that teach and graphic exercises for hands-on experience for the novice.