Here are several books I will definitely pick up when they are released: Full Steam Ahead!: The Life and Art of Ward Kimball by Amid Amidi and The Art of Wreck-It Ralph by Maggie Malone and Jennifer Lee Monn are directly Disney-related...
While A Mary Blair Treasury of Golden Books by John Canemaker and The Art and Making of Peanuts Animation by Charles Solomon focus on the non-Disney career of former Disney artists (Mary Blair and Bill Melendez).
I am a long-time reader/enjoyer of your blog, and look forward to recommendations of books like this. I was hoping you could help me with something specific though: in the course of my reading different Disney-related books, I keep coming across descriptions of the studio locations and buildings, their uses and locations at different periods in time - such-and-such a building was used for animation until it was converted for ink and paint or something, at which point the staff moved across the street, etc. etc. To get a sense of place in my head, can you recommend a book(s) that lay out - visually, if possible - where the Disney studios were and what the buildings were purposed for at different points in the history of the Disney studios? Thank you!
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ReplyDeleteUnfortunately no. However David Lesjak and a team of enthusiasts are currently working on such a booklet, focusing purely on Hyperion (not Burbank).