BAAIM 2012 - 2D ANIMATION 1 – Simon Norton Recommended Reading

Animation Books – The Big Top 3 on How To Animate Properly Blair, Preston. “Cartoon Animation”, Walter Foster Publishing Inc, Laguna Hills CA 1994 Whitaker, Harold & Halas, John. “Timing for Animation”, Focal Press, Oxford, 1981 Williams, Richard. “The Animator’s Survival Kit”, Faber and Faber, London, 2001 Highly Recommended for Useful Info on Animation Concepts, Styles, History All books by Paul Wells “Understanding Animation”, Routledge, London 1998 “Animation and America”, Edinburgh University Press, 2002 “The Fundamentals of Animation”, Ava Publishing, Switzerland, 2006 “Basics Animation: Scriptwriting”, Ava Publishing, Switzerland, 2007 More Animation Books of Interest Adamson, Joe. “Tex Avery: King of Cartoons”, Da Capo Press, New York, 1985 Beck, Jerry, “Outlaw Animation: Cutting Edge Cartoons from the Spike and Mike Festivals”,

Harry N Abrams Inc, 2003 Culhane, Shamus, “Animation From Script to Screen”, St Martin’s Press, New York, 1988 Furniss, Maureen ed. “Chuck Jones: Conversations” Uni of Mississippi Press, Jackson 2005 Furniss, Maureen, “Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics”, John Libbey Publishing, UK, 1998 Goldberg, Eric, “Character Animation Crash Course”, Gilliam, Terry. “Animations of Mortality”, Eyre Methuen, London, 1978 Jones, Chuck. “Chuck Amuck”, Farrar Strous & Giroux, New York, 1989 Halas, John & Manvell, Roger, “The Technique of Film Animation”, Focal Press, London 1971 Lenburg, Jeff. “Great Cartoon Directors”, Da Capo Press, New York, 1993 Character Design Animation books above, and Amidi, Amid, “Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation”, Chronicle Books, 2006 Hamm, Jack. “Cartooning the Head and Figure”, Penguin Putnam, New York, 1967 Inches, Alison “Jim Henson’s Designs and Doodles” Harry M. Abrams Inc., New York 2001 Story/Scriptwriting Hayward, Stan, “Scriptwriting for Animation”, Focal Press, London 1977 McKee, Robert “Story – Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting”,

Methuen, London 1999 Wells, Paul, “Basics Animation: Scriptwriting”, Ava Publishing, Switzerland, 2007 Directing/Staging/Editing/Film Grammar Arijon, Daniel, “Grammar of the Film Language”, Silman-James Press, Los Angeles, 1976 Block, Bruce, “The Visual Story”, Focal Press, Oxford 2008 Katz, Steven D, “Film Directing Shot By Shot”, Butterworth Publishers, Stoneham MA 1991 Thompson, Roy, “Grammar of the Edit”, Focal Press, Oxford 1993

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Recommended Viewing Anything made using 2D Animation techniques!!! Particularly recommended - Directors: Chuck Jones – Warner Bros 30s to 50s (many Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Road Runner

& Coyote, also feature films The Phantom Tollbooth & The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (1966 animated version - NOT the Jim Carrey one!))

Robert Clampett - Warner Bros 30s to 40s (Porky Pig, Daffy Duck) Tex Avery – Warner Bros 30s, MGM 40s (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Droopy Dog) Max and Dave Fleischer – Independents 20s & 30s (Koko, Betty Boop, Popeye) Fred Crippen – 60s TV series (Roger Ramjet) John Kricfalusi (John K) – 90s TV series (Ren & Stimpy, George Liquor, Ripping Friends) John & Faith Hubley – American experimental animators 50s – 60s (The Hole, Moonbird) Bruce Petty – Australian cartoonist and animator (The Mad Century, Leisure) Sarah Watt - Australian animator (Living With Happiness and 2005 feature film Look

Both Ways) John Halas & Joy Batchelor – British animators 50s, 60s (best known for feature Animal Farm) Richard Williams – Canadian/British animator 50s – 90s (best known for Who Framed Roger

Rabbit?, but also in animation circles for his ill-fated personal feature film The Thief and the Cobbler, and for publishing a landmark book on animation technique; The Animator’s Survival Kit)

Terry Gilliam – Hollywood director who started out doing cutout animations for TV Series Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Mark Baker – British animator, creator of Peppa Pig, (The Hill Farm) Bruno Bozzetto – Italian animator (Signor Rossi shorts, also feature film Allegro Non Troppo) Guido Manuli - Italian animator (many shorts, also feature film Volere Volare) Osvaldo Cavandoli – Italian animator famous for a great 70s animated TV series (The Line) Osamu Tezuka – Japanese animator, creator of Astroboy, but also very interesting personal

work as well (Story of A Street Corner, Jumping, Broken Down Film) Hayao Miyazaki – Japanese animator (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, My

Neighbour Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle) Dusan Vukotic – Croatian animator 50s – 80s (Surogat, Concerto for a Submachine Gun) Zlatko Grgic – Croatian/Canadian animator 50s – 80s (Big and Little, Maxicat) Norman McLaren – Scottish/Canadian experimental animator, 30s – 80s – The best of the

experimental and abstract 2D animators, McLaren tried every style imaginable. He also was instrumental in setting up the National Film Board of Canada as a source of funding for independent animators.

Richard Condie – Independent Canadian animator 70s – 00s (The big snit, The apprentice) Bill Plympton - Independent American animator 80s - 00s (25 ways to quit smoking, Mutant

Aliens, Your Face, also feature film The Tune) Don Herzfeldt – Independent American animator 00s (Billy’s Balloon, Rejected) Paul Driessen - Independent Dutch/Canadian animator 70s – 00s (2D or not 2D, The boy who

saw the iceberg, Cat’s cradle) Michaela Pavlatova – Independent Czech animator 80s – 00s (Repeat, Words words words) Phil Mulloy - Independent British animator 90s – 00s (Intolerance, The 10 Commandments) Particularly recommended - Producers: Walt Disney – Producer of many animated shorts 20s to 50s (Mickey Mouse, Donald

Duck, Goofy) and features (Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Bambi, Dumbo, Pinocchio, Fantasia)

Matt Groening – TV shows 90s – 00s (The Simpsons, Futurama (Note: box sets have many behind the scenes features, such as storyboards and animatics))

Jay Ward – TV shows 60s (Crusader Rabbit, Rocky & Bullwinkle) Mike Judge – TV shows 90s – 00s (Beavis & Butthead, King of The Hill) Trey Parker and Matt Stone – TV show 90s - 00s (South Park)