Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation

Hardback

Main Details

Title Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Amid Amidi
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:192
Dimensions(mm): Height 224,Width 285
Category/GenreComic book and cartoon art
ISBN/Barcode 9780811847315
ClassificationsDewey:791.4334097309045
Audience
General
Illustrations 250 colour and black and white photographs

Publishing Details

Publisher Chronicle Books
Imprint Chronicle Books
Publication Date 29 September 2006
Publication Country United States

Description

Between the classic films of Walt Disney and the televised animation revolution of the 1960s was a critical decade in animation design. Amid Amidi, publisher of the influential "Animation Blast" magazine and Cartoon Brew blog charts the evolution of the modern style in animation, which abandoned the preferred "lifelike" anthopomorphic look for a more sophisticated and often abstract approach. In this way, animation design of the time has much in common with the modern movements in painting and graphic design. Gathering hundreds of rare and forgotten sketches, model boards, cels, and film stills, "Cartoon Modern" is a thoroughly researched, eye-popping, and delightful account of perhaps the most critical era of animation design.

Author Biography

Amid Amidi is the publisher and editor of the magazine Animation Blast and co-founder of the popular animation weblog CartoonBrew.com. In addition to writing, Amidi works in the animation industry. He is the author of The Art of Robots, also from Chronicle Books.