The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Official Baking Cookbook
by Sandy K Snugly
Disney Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas: The Official Knitting Guide to Halloween Town and Christmas Town
by Tanis Gray
Weave magic into your knits with the first-ever Disney Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas knitting guide, featuring more than 25 patterns inspired by the strange and spooky characters of Tim Burton's beloved classic. Become your own mad scientist and knit to life the quirky characters and creepy costumes inspired by Disney Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. Inspired by the characters of Jack Skellington, Sally, Dr. Finkelstein, Zero, Oogie Boogie, the Mayor, Sandy Claws, and...
Animation has been a staple of the filmmaking process since the early days of cinema. Animated shorts had been produced for decades, but not until 1937 did a major studio venture into animated features when Walt Disney produced Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Of the hundreds of animated feature films made since, many have proven their importance over the years while also entertaining generations of audiences. There are also many recent animated movies that promise to become classics in the fiel...
Both a fascinating account of Walt Disney’s own significant artistic creations, from the iconic Mickey Mouse to the groundbreaking Snow White in 1937, and an insightful history of the hugely successful entertainment behemoth he created, from Dumbo to Pixar’s Toy Story, as well as the hugely popular theme parks. But Disney’s dark side is also explored: his disputed parentage; industrial disputes; his work for the FBI; and his anti-Communist and allegedly racist and antisemitic views.The company...
Bust through the heavens with your soul, Gurren Lagann! Featuring buxom babes, brutal beastmen, and mountainous mecha as only GAINAX can deliver, Gurren Lagann is a non-stop roller coaster of all-out anime action! Gurren Lagann Art Works collects the dynamic imagery of this landmark series, including DVD covers, magazine artwork, poster images, promotional illustrations, and more!
Terry Gilliam, director of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, first came to attention as the iconoclastic animator and founding member of the Monty Python team. In the 1970s he emerged as an increasingly ambitious filmmaker, moving from the collaborative Python projects, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Monty Python's Life of Brian, to the first inklings of his own distinctively dark, fantastic, and strangely hilarious vision in Jabberwocky and Time Bandits. In the 1980s he produced his masterpi...
Join YouTube sensation Blippi as he prepares to celebrate Halloween in this seasonal board book that's just right for little hands. Blippi loves everything about Halloween - including picking just the right pumpkins from the pumpkin patch, creating the perfect Halloween costume for his dog Lyno and making sure he has enough sweets for all the monsters, heroes and more who will knock on his door! Each page of Blippi:...
Where's Bruno?
We may not talk about Bruno, but we can certainly find him hiding in the various rooms of Casita and all around the town of the Encanto!Join Mirabel and her family as you explore the Madrigal's magical home. From Casita's courtyard and Antonio's newly created jungle-themed room to Bruno's rat-filled lair and the colourful streets of the town of the Encanto, you'll have fun spotting Mirabel, Bruno, Antonio, Luisa, Isabella and the rest of the family Madrigal! Perfect for Disney fans young and ol...
Celebrate 100 years of wonder and discover the story of Disney in this beautifully illustrated coffee table book featuring imagery from the Disney archives.Take a walk through the Disney Museum and discover the story behind the company that changed the face of film and animation as it celebrates its centenary year.This large-format book showcases rarely-seen imagery from Disney. Marvel at concept drawings from the early stages of films, travel through the golden age of animation, get a glimpse b...
Another in our successful line of "Art of Pixar" books, this detailed look into the creation of the third and final installment of the "Toy Story" series shares the artwork and experiences of the incredible animators who made it all happen. "Toy Story" is the cornerstone of Pixar's cannon of blockbuster animated films, and, while the book will focus on the art of Toy Story 3, it will also discuss all three films and their development. A true celebration of a classic, groundbreaking series, this...
For more than sixty years, Bill Hanna has made entertaining children and the young at heart his "business." In A Cast of Friends , he offers an engaging look at his decades in animation and at the people who helped make it all possible. Hanna shares his memories of the tough and wild years at the beginning of animation, working with such legendary colleagues as Tex Avery and Friz Freleng. He describes as only he can the hard work and determination it took to make Hanna-Barbera Productions a suc...
Adventure Time: The Original Cartoon Title Cards (Vol 1)
by Pendleton Ward
The first of two beautifully lavish books created to celebrate the distinctive designs behind the Adventure Time title cards. Combining sketches, works in progress, revisions and final title card art, the book will take readers on a visual guide of the title card development, with quotes from each episode and commentary from the artists – Pendleton Ward, Pat McHale, Nick Jennings, Phil Rynda, and Paul Linsley.
Presenting a behind-the-scenes look at the DreamWorks production of the Shrek trilogy, this title includes unpublished art from all three films, sketch art, set and scene development art, and little-known tales of the movie-making process by DreamWorks animators, producers, and directors.
The perfect gift for Disney lovers, this quote book is filled with wise words from Disney's most inspirational characters. Each quote is typographically designed, incorporating elements from the animated film it is drawn from. With over 50 quotes, there's a quote for every situation from advice on love and relationships, to motivational quotes on success, working as a team and achieving your dreams.
You'll have a fantastic time on the farm with YouTube sensation Blippi in Blippi: Baby Farm Animals, a photographic book with 10 sound buttons to push. Blippi introduces 10 baby farm animals in this photographic book that includes sound buttons of him talking and the animals making their awesome noises! Each page of Blippi: Baby Farm Animals includes a matching button to press with awesome animal sounds. Blippi int...
Scrooge McDuck and nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie are back in the 2017 remake of the classic series from Disney Television Animation, DuckTales! Now, find out about the making of DuckTales and read stories from the developers and cast covering every episode from all three seasons! Like Scrooge into the Money Bin, dive into this beautiful, oversized coffee-table book and read tales of the making of the series from developers Matt Youngberg, Francisco Angones, Suzanna Olson, and others. Join i...
From a tiny office on Madison Avenue in the early 1960s, a struggling company named "Marvel Comics" introduced a series of bright-costumed superhero characters distinguished by smart banter and compellingly human flaws. "Spider-Man", "The Fantastic Four", "Captain America", "The Incredible Hulk"," The Avengers", "Iron Man", "Thor"," The X-Men", "Daredevil" - these superheroes quickly won children's hearts and sparked the imagination of pop artists, public intellectuals, and campus radicals. Over...
Aardman Animations
The Bristol-based animation company Aardman is best known for its most famous creations Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep. But despite the quintessentially British aesthetic and tone of its movies, this very British studio continues to enjoy international box office success with movies such as Shaun the Sheep Movie, Flushed Away and Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Aardman has always been closely linked with one of its key animators, Nick Park, and its stop motion, Plasticine-m...
The Classical Animated Documentary and Its Contemporary Evolution
by Cristina Formenti
The Classical Animated Documentary and Its Contemporary Evolution is the first book to provide an historical insight into the animated documentary. Drawing on archival research and textual analysis, it shows how this form, usually believed to be strictly contemporaneous, instead took shape in the 1940s. Cristina Formenti integrates a theoretical and a historical approach in order to shed new light on the animated documentary as a form as well as on the work of renowned studios such as The Walt...
Cosgrove Hall Productions (Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers)
by Richard Keith Haynes
This open access book uncovers the untold story of the making of Cosgrove Hall Productions' most successful works, bookended by the many others that, together, shaped an animation company which generated a ground-breaking and lasting impact like no other. Any British child of the 1980s will remember Danger Mouse – 'the world’s greatest secret agent' – and The Wind in the Willows, a series produced using stop frame puppets that faithfully recreated the world of Kenneth Grahame’s Edwardian story...