Art and Architecture

Title: The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles, and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion, and Internet Animators
Author: Richard Williams
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication Date: January 7, 2002
ISBN: 0571202284
Suggested by: Hal Barwood
Comments: Beyond The Illusion of Life in detail and practicality by the master of Roger Rabbit.
 
Title: Architecture: Form, Space, and Order
Author: Frank D. K. Ching, Francis D. Ching
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: December 18, 1995 (second edition)
ISBN: 0471286168
Suggested by: Paul Schuytema
Comments: “Simple overview of architecture. Good for level builders.”
 
Title: A Bug's Life: The Art and Making of an Epic of Miniature Proportions
Author: Jeff Kurtti
Publisher: Disney Editions
Publication Date: December 23, 1998
ISBN: 0786864419
Suggested by: Mike Pondsmith
Comments: “Or any of the ‘making of’ Disney and Pixar stuff. Talk about how teams function. Create docs. Team dynamics. The ‘Bug’s Life’ one is particularly good.”
 
Title: Designing Disney's Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance
Author: Karal Ann Marling (editor)
Publisher: Flammarion
Publication Date: February 15, 1998
ISBN: 2080136399
Suggested by: Patricia Pizer
Comments: A fascinating volume which unites the writing of Marty Sklar, Frank Gehry & others in the analysis of the intentions and strategies behind the design of Disneyland. Full of fabulous photos & sketches from the famed Disney Archives.
 
Title: Design of Cities
Author: Edmund N. Bacon
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication Date: May 1, 1976 (revised edition)
ISBN: 0140042369
Suggested by: Patricia Pizer
Comments: “How cities are designed and function over history.”
 
Title: The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation
Author: Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas
Publisher: Disney Editions
Publication Date: October 19, 1995 (revised edition)
ISBN: 0786860707
Suggested by: Hal Barwood
Comments: A great coffee table book by two famous pros and a standard teaching text.
 
Title: A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Author: Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1977
ISBN: 0195019199
Suggested by: Mark Terrano
Comments: Warren Spector recommends everything by Christopher Alexander: “Alexander’s Timeless Way of Building is both instructive and therapeutic – I’m convinced reading/rereading it lowers my blood pressure. His new series, Phenomenon of Life, is pretty wacky – I’m still trying to wade through its four thick volumes – but it’s certainly through-provoking.”

11.15.2006

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