From Library Journal
This is basically a text for the tyro animator. Culhane, for many years with Walt Disney, discusses the role of each member of an animation team and the uses of computers, storyboarding, and music. Although he writes from his vast experience, the digressive and somewhat lecturing style is an impediment. For libraries having works such as Raul Da Silva's World of Animation (Kodak, 1979), Kit Laybourne's Animation Book (1978. o.p.), Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston's lavish Disney Animation ( LJ 12/15/81), and John Halas and Roger Manvell's older but still useful Technique of Film Animation (1976, 4th ed. o.p.), this is probably not essential. A better book by Culhane is his memoir, Talking Animals and Other People (LJ 3/1/86).
- Roy Liebman, California State Univ. Lib., Los AngelesCopyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Review
"The book...is amodel of clarity and comprehensiveness. You will be astonished by how much information is to be found in [its] pages." --Robert Edmonds, Professor, Columbia College, Chicago
"If this was Japan...Shamus Culhane would be considered a national treasure...." --Richard Rauh, President, The Optical House & ASIFA/New York
"I highly recommend that anymore who is interested in learning the art of animated cartoon production study this book." --Walter Lantz, creator of "Woody Woodpecker"
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