I have two copies of the super rare “De Blanche a Hercule: 28 long métrages d’animation des Studios Disney,” by Christian Renaut for sale. Please contact me via the contact form here if you’re interested in purchasing one. One copy is in nearly new condition, while the other has separated from its binding and has no dust jacket. I’ll update this post when they both sell.
I’ve posted about Boris Maras and Amanda Zima on the site before. Both artists are cleaning out their book shelves, much the same way I did. Since I know how much eBay costs both buyers and sellers, I figured I’d let them try to sell their books through On Animation. I normally wouldn’t do this, but these artists have well over fifty books that need new homes. Here’s a list of what they have for sale. This is a nice opportunity to get some good books at great prices.
Update: Boris has put together a nice blog for this sale, which you can find here.
To inquire about any of the following titles, please use the contact form at the end of this post.
How to Cheat in Maya is one of my favorite computer animation books, and it’s back this year with a 2012 update. Click the image below to pre-order your copy!
Check out the official website too. It has a bunch of free videos by the always entertaining Kenny Roy (pictured below).
Tod Polson has revealed he’s working on finishing up Maurice Noble’s design book. If this book sees the light of day, it will occupy a spot on my book shelf, which is really small now by comparison to a few years ago. 
The fourth installment in the gorgeous Disney Archive Series will be released in October. Pre-order your copy today!
Walter claims that he was always able to avoid taking things too seriously, even when he was commandeering a department of one hundred twenty people or struggling to keep his independent outfit afloat. “You can really help yourself by not letting stress get inside you,” he says. “The people who let stress get them are the ones who worry so much about the little things. When you’re busy and interested in what you’re doing, it just seems to pour out naturally, you don’t think of stress. It’s not ego, either, it’s just that you love what you’re doing and feel good about it.”
More on books today. Walt’s People 10 has arrived!
Volume 10 contains all the surviving interviews conducted by Bob Thomas for his biography of Walt, An American Original. It’s 324-pages long and here is the table of contents.
Here’s what’s inside:
Foreword: Diane Disney Miller
Jim Korkis: A history of the Walt Disney biography by Bob Thomas
Didier Ghez: Bob Thomas
Paul F. Anderson: Bob Thomas
Bob Thomas: Walt Disney
Bob Thomas: Walt Pfeiffer
Bob Thomas: Lillian Disney
Bob Thomas: Edna Disney
Bob Thomas: Ub Iwerks
Bob Thomas: Wilfred Jackson
Bob Thomas: Bill Cottrell
Bob Thomas: Herb Ryman
Jim Korkis: Walt’s secretaries
Bob Thomas: Dolores Voght Scott
Bob Thomas: Ham Luske
Bob Thomas: Woolie Reitherman
Bob Thomas: John Lounsbery
Bob Thomas: Ward Kimball
Bob Thomas: Frank Thomas
Bob Thomas: Milt Kahl
Bob Thomas: Hazel George
Bob Thomas: Marc Davis
Bob Thomas: Dick Huemer
Bob Thomas: Ollie Johnston
Bob Thomas: Ken Anderson
Bob Thomas: George Bruns
Bob Thomas: Larry Clemmons
Bob Thomas: Bill Anderson
Bob Thomas: Robert Stevenson
Bob Thomas: Bill Walsh
Bob Thomas: Roy E. Disney
Bob Thomas: Winston Hibler
Bob Thomas: James Algar
Bob Thomas: John Hench
Bob Thomas: Harper Goff
Bob Thomas: Dick Irvine
Bob Thomas: Card Walker
Bob Thomas: Donn Tatum
Bob Thomas: Wathel Rogers
Bob Thomas: Roger Broggie
Bob Thomas: Marvin Davis
Bob Thomas: Joe Potter
Bob Thomas: Robert Foster
Bob Thomas: Joe Fowler
Click here to order now, or keep your eyes peeled for its release on Amazon in the coming weeks.
Someone is being mighty generous out there. Download this amazing resource while you still can.
Animation Insiders is a book dedicated to animation. AI book is a compilation of know-how, experience and anecdotes from 13 talented animators (from Dreamworks, Pixar, Illion and other studios). Animation Insiders is aimed at people who are passionate about animation, those who are looking to surpass their limits and acquire new techniques. Every book of this amazing series will explores a new theme.
Found @ Les Shamans
Recently I’ve been enjoying reading Jim Korkis’ latest book, The Vault of Walt. It’s entertaining in as much the same way as Walt’s People and Working with Walt (A new volume of which will be released soon), except it reminds me more of the stuff that doesn’t make the final edit.
Having had a bit of an insider’s look at the process of putting these kinds of books together, I can tell you ( based on the interviews that I’ve transcribed for Walt’s People) that there’s a ton of little anecdotes, and casual conversation points that don’t usually make it to print. Didier often tells me just to transcribe the really interesting stuff for Walt’s People (sometimes he’ll give more specific instructions). But the problem I have with this is that I find it all so interesting, and usually just end up transcribing everything and let him choose what the edit out. As I said, a lot of the really casual stuff gets edited out, but as far as I’m concerned, it’s often just as enjoyable to hear/read as the stuff that makes it into the final published volume.
This is why I’m enjoying The Vault of Walt so much. It’s such an easy read, and the stories are so enjoyable. Having read dozens of books on Disney history, it’s always amazing to constantly find new stories to read. I look forward to any subsequent volumes from Korkis and thoroughly recommend this to everyone interested in Disney Animation History.
Since a good Disney book review is not complete without a good Walt Disney quote, I’ll offer up this one from The Vault of Walt. This quote is one of the parts in the book I have read elsewhere, so I guess if you want to see the “new” stuff, you’ll have to get a copy.
By nature, I’m an experimenter. To this day, I don’t believe in sequels. I can’t follow popular cycles. I have to move on to new things. So with the success of Mickey I was determined to diversify. We kept fooling around with The Silly Symphonies until we came up with The Three Little Pigs. I could not possibly see how we could top pigs with pigs. But we tried, and I doubt whether one member of this audience can name the other cartoons in which the pigs appeared.
I know I can’t. Make sure you check the posts by Didier Ghez and Mark Mayerson concerning this book.
