BOOKS I OWN

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"The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance."
-Leonardo da Vinnci
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“Wisdom is the daughter of experience”

-Leonardo da Vinci

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-Dover means it’s from the company Dover that publishes extremely cheap priced books of Great Masters that have died so copyrights are cheap, thus we get books for cheap!

-Underlined means they are kinda home made (but nicely bound) packets that would have to be special ordered from the specific vendor(ask me for the vendor’s info if interested).

The Drawings of Heinrich Kley by Heinrich Kley Dover	Strange drawings with unique ideas, as well as excellent draftsmanship.	A crazy lunatic, but I like his style. From German.
The Art of Animal Drawing by Ken Hulgren Dover	A must have for any animation / art student, goes over a lot of important animation principles. Great drawings	Former Disney Animator
Vilppu: Sketching on Location by Glenn Vilppu	A good resource with plenty of instruction on how to keep a sketchbook for animation.	A much respected teacher and icon for many students of the animation industry
Vilppu Sketchbook(aug-nov 1993) by. Vilppu Studios [signed]	A sketchbook collection of the much adored Glenn Vilppu.	A much respected teacher and icon for many students of the animation industry
See, Feel, Trace, Draw “IT” by Sheldon Borenstein	An entertaining and very effective way to learn figure drawing through methods	Teacher of many, and former cleanup artist and Warner Brothers feature animation
Simplified Drawing For Planning Animation by Wayne Gilbert	A unique book and teaches you specifically methods of starting/planning your animations	A supervising animator from Industral light and magic, as well as very motivational, and informative speaker
The Tarzan Chronicles by Howard Green	One of the best “Art of” Disney books, I have seen. Journals and sketchbooks of the feature film, “Tarzan”	Main guy in Disney’s publicity and marketing team
The Making of Treasure Planet
Bridgeman’s complete guide to drawing from life by. George Brideman Dover	Pretty good book on drawing the figure in a constructive manner.	A great instructor from what I understand, and has taught many in which his methods have been past from generation to generation
Walt Disney’s Bambi: The sketchbook series by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnson	Actually a lot of people don’t know know about the Disney Sketchbook series, although these books can be expensive, it is filled with some of the most energetic and remarkable drawing of your favorite disney character. Very inspirational.	2 of 9 oldmen of disney.
Drawing: The head and figure by Jack Hamm	This is a very nice book that is a must have for all begginers, as well as intermediates. He event has a really nice one about landscape drawing which isn’t often found on the shelves, but is highly suggested.
The Drawings of Harry Carmean by Linda Jacobson	An example book, it is basically full drawing samples. Interesting to see one of Vilppu’s influences.	A professor of many, which includes Glenn Vilppu and many other Art Center center graduates.
Composing Pictures by Donald W.Graham(out of print)	A very rare but incredibly informative book on the many theories of drawing and painting pictures, and animation. A bit difficult for me to read since it is written with that “old style” english. 300$ book	One of the old Disney instructors, who some people believe is brilliant.
The Arcane Eye of Hogarth (his sketchbook) by Burne Hogarth	An interesting book to see, where Hogarth develops his notes and inspirations. Not quite as available as his “Dynamic” series.	Known for his “Dynamic” series of drawing, which seems to be in every single bookstore in the world.
Animals: 1419 copyright-free illustrations of Mammals, Birds, Fish, insects, etc. Dover	Great illustration of animals, all are in black in white.
Basic Figure Drawing Techniques	Will finish later,	Will finish later
Drawing Figure Movement by. John Croney
Draw 50 People w/ Lee Ames	A kid’s drawing book
Graphic Illustration in Black and White
Drawing the Human Figure by. Arthur Zaidenberg
Freehand Drawing Self-taught
Unauthorized Portraits by Edward Sorel

An Atlas of Anatomy for Artist Dover
The Artist Complete Guide to Facial Expressions
Constructive Anatomy-Bridgeman Dover
Cyclopedia Anatomicae by. Gyorgy Fehér
Strength Training Anatomy By. Frédéric Delavier	Pretty awesome book, one of the new unknown books, I like it for the drawings but it also tells you what exercises tone which parts of the body, in this case, “kill 2 birds with 1 stone.”	Author of this strength training book is a wonderul artist, and weight lifter as well

Alla Prima: Everything I know about painting by Richard Schmid	Awesome painting book, and the author has the skills to back up the talk, a better crit can be found here.	I heard he won every major painting award an artist can win. His website
Georgia O’Keefe: Portraits of woman artist for children By Robyn Turner
National Gallery london: Great Musuems of the world
The Vatican Collections: The Metropolitan Musuem of Art
Creative Acrylic Painting Techniques
Watercolor Tricks and Techniques
Watercolor Painting Techniques

The Illusion of Life by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnson	A book every animators seems to swear by, good concept, but a very large book. This is the standard!	2 of 9 oldmen of disney, still alive btw!
Cartoon Animation by Walter Foster	A book that every animator should start with, plus it’s cheap as heck
Film Cartoons by Walter Foster	A book that every animator should start with, plus it’s cheap as heck
How to Draw Tarzan by Walter Foster	I like tarzan a lot
The Animators Survival Kit by Richard Williams	A must have for any animator or student, and won’t have pay tons for his seminars, although you should I hear it seminars is a great experience	He’s the director of Roger Rabbit as well as a seminar instructor for many, known worldwide.
Before the Animation Begins by John Canemaker [signed]	Nice history type book, if you need to get motivated, this may do the trick.	An animation historian,
Toy Story: The art and making of the animated film by. John Lasseter and Steve Daly	This is a cool book I should probably look more often at it, lasseter doesn’t have too many books out, but has tons to offer.	Lasseter was Cal Arts Grad, who blew up with Pixar and is an amazing talent.

Character animation with 3D Studio Max by Stephanie Reese
3D Studio Max Applied by. Clayton Fulton
Inside Softimage 3D by Anthony Rossano [signed]
3D graphic and Animation: From starting up to Standing Out by Mark Giambruno

BOOKS I OWN

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