Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Before the Animation Begins The Art and Lives of Disney's Inspirational SketchArtists by John Canema Before the Animation Begins: The Art and Lives of Disney Inspirational Sketch Artists. Title: Before the Animation Begins: The Art and . Publisher: Hyperion. Publication Date: 1996. Binding: Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included. Edition: First edition. About this title. For the first time ever, the lives and work of the "inspirational sketch" artists who created Disney's classic animated films have been chronicled from the thirties to the present, with never-before-revealed details about their lives and interactions with the studios. For the first time ever, noted animation historian and animator John Canemaker documents the lives and works of Disney's "inspirational sketch artists" from the 1930s to the present. These are the people who visualize all the details surrounding each character in the initial creative period before the grueling labor of animation begins. "Through daydreams and doodles, they attempt to 'find' the film." The happy result of these flights of fancy are dancing ostriches and personality-rich broomsticks. Drawings and paintings of Disney characters leap right off the pages of this lush book, where you'll find pastels from Fantasia , faux wood-cuts of the Seven Dwarfs, paintings of Alice in Wonderland, and hundreds of other delightful, rarely seen images. The stories of artists such as Ty Wong, who created Bambi, and Bianca Majolie, the first woman to join the story department at Walt Disney (in 1935), are as provocative as their art. Canemaker does a fine job of placing the artists' lives and interactions with Disney studios in the historical context of modern art. Before the Animation Begins is a beautiful book. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. ORDERING BOOKS : Since our internet stock is stored in a separate warehouse, email is a virtual necessity for the initial inquiry. Please email orders using the Advanced Book Exchange order buttons. If you use your own forms, we need the book number and book title to locate the book. If you telephone first, please have our book inventory number and title ready and please be prepared to call back later when we have had time to pull the book from storage. Before the Animation Begins: The Art and Lives of Disney's Inspirational SketchArtists by John Canemaker. John Canemaker has won an Academy Award, an Emmy and a Peabody Award for his animation and is an internationally-renowned animation historian and teacher. A key figure in American independent animation, Canemaker’s work has a distinctive personal style emphasizing emotion, personality and dynamic visual expression. His film, The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation, won an Oscar in 2005 for Best Animated Short, as well as an Emmy. A 28-minute autobiographical essay about a troubled father/son relationship, The Moon and the Son marked a personal and professional breakthrough in animation storytelling. Canemaker is also a noted author who has written nine books on animation, as well as numerous essays, articles and monographs for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal , among other publications. He has taught at several colleges and universities in the course of his career, including a guest residency at Yale, but he is most closely associated with New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he began teaching in 1980 and was one of the founders of the animation program. Canemaker is a full, tenured professor who became the program’s executive director in 1988 and served as Acting Chair of the NYU Undergraduate Film and Television Department in 2001-2002. John Canemaker was born in Waverly, New York, in 1943 and raised in nearby Elmira where he completed his first animated film while in his teens. After graduating from Notre Dame High School in 1961, he moved to New York City, where he pursued an acting career for the next decade. He appeared off-Broadway, in stock companies and in over 35 national TV commercials. In 1971 he became an undergraduate at Marymount Manhattan College, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1974. He later completed a MFA in Film at New York University. His advisor at Marymount, Sister Dymphna Leonard, encouraged him to return to his childhood interest in animation. She arranged for Canemaker to do research at the Walt Disney Studio Archives in 1973. His interviews there formed the basis for his first published writings on animation, and stimulated him to continue researching animation history. In addition to more than 100 newspaper and magazine articles, he produced the documentaries Remembering Winsor McCay (1976) and Otto Messmer and Felix the Cat (1977). At the same time, Canemaker began making the first in a series of personal animated shorts. These films, including Greed (1974), The 40's (1974), Street Freaks (1975), Confessions of a Stardreamer (1978), The Wizard's Son (1981), Bottom's Dream (1983), Confessions of a Stand-Up (1993) and Bridgehampton (1998), are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. MoMA has twice hosted retrospectives of Canemaker’s films, in 1984 and in 1998. His commissioned work for television and feature film includes commercials, Sesame Street , The Electric Company, Pee Wee’s Playhouse , and an animated sequence in The World According to Garp (1981). He created animation for two award-winning documentaries: HBO’s You Don’t have to Die (1989), which won an Academy Award for documentary short; and Break the Silence: Kids Speak Out Against Abuse (1991), a Peabody Award-winning CBS special. His first book, The Animated Raggedy Ann and Andy , detailing the making of an animated feature based on Johnny Gruelle’s storybook characters, was published in 1977. Eight more books followed: Treasures of Disney Animation Art (1982), Winsor McCay: His Life and Art (1987), Felix: The Twisted Tale of the World’s Most Famous Cat (1991), Tex Avery: The MGM Years (1996), Before the Animation Begins: The Art and Lives of Disney Inspirational Sketch Artists (1996), Paper Dreams: The Art and Artists of Disney Storyboards (1999), Walt Disney’s Nine Old Men and the Art of Animation (2001), The Art and Flair of Mary Blair (2003), and a revised and updated edition of Winsor McCay (2005). A collection of Canemaker’s animated films, John Canemaker: Marching to a Different Toon , is distributed by Milestone Film and Video. This DVD also includes the documentary Otto Messmer and Felix the Cat. Milestone has also released his documentary, Remembering Winsor McCay , as bonus material on the DVD Winsor McCay: The Master Edition . Canemaker himself is a featured commentator on many classic animation DVD releases, including the Disney films Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , The Fantasia Anthology , Dumbo , Peter Pan , and Beauty and the Beast , as well as Cut-Up: The Films of Grant Munro, The Mask, and Winsor McCay: The Master Edition . He has been interviewed on NBC’s The Today Show , PBS’s News Hour with Jim Lehrer and Entertainment Tonight , and lectures at film and animation festivals around the world. Archive Profile: The John Canemaker Animation Collection at NYU. by John Canemaker In 1988, I signed a formal agreement with New York University to house fifteen years worth of my animation research materials. On October 5, 1989, The John Canemaker Animation Collection opened to animation history scholars and students in a special collection known as the Fales Library, which is located within the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library at NYU in New York City. John Canemaker. My donation consisted of materials and data I had gathered through the years preparing and writing on animation art, artists and techniques in periodical articles, film reviews, and books, such as The Animated Raggedy Ann & Andy (1977), Treasures of Disney Animation Art (1982), Winsor McCay: His Life and Art (1987). Included were dozens of files containing interview transcripts, correspondence, news clippings and publicity regarding such diverse animators as Tex Avery, Alexander Alexeieff, Claire Parker, Oskar Fischinger, Chuck Jones, Otto Messmer, Winsor McCay, Walt Disney, Kathy Rose, Art Babbitt, Walter Lantz, John Halas, Joy Batchelor, Shamus Culhane, Tissa David, Caroline Leaf, Richard Williams, George Griffin, Suzan Pitt, Michael Sporn, Dennis Pies, Len Lye, and George Dunning, I. Klein, Bruno Bozzetto, Jules Engel, as well as others. Also included were fifty books, several of them out-of-print, over 200 periodicals, and a collection of original animation art, posters, 53 flip books, as well as production folders on my own animation film projects, both independently produced (i.e., Confessions Of A Star Dreamer, Bottom's Dream, etc.) and commercially sponsored (i.e., John Lennon Sketchbook , Yoko Ono Prod.; You Don't Have To Die, HBO, Academy Award winning documentary animation sequences; The World According To Garp, Warner Bros.) I also donated fourteen videotapes and over 100 audio tapes containing interviews with artists such as J. R. Bray, Shamus Culhane, Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, Art Babbitt, Otto Messmer, Terry Gilliam, and Len Lye, among others. This audio/visual material is housed in the Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media which is also part of the Bobst Library. A Growing Resource The Canemaker Animation Collection is a "living archive" in that I continue to contribute materials as I complete book and periodical projects and animated films. For example, in 1993 I donated research and interviews for a March/April 1993 Print magazine article I wrote on John Hubley's unfinished animated feature Finian's Rainbow . Other items I have donated include a complete publicity packet and magazine articles on Douglas Leigh, Broadway's electric sign "king," and publicity, production notes and interview transcripts with animators of Disney's Aladdin for my essay that appeared in Sotheby's 10/9/93 animation art auction catalogue.