Animation: a bibliography

General/History/Aesthetics
Giannalberto Bendazzi Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation, (John Libbey, UK, 1994)
John Canemaker (ed) Storytelling in Animation (American Film Institute, 1988)
Donald Crafton Before Mickey: The Animated Film, 1892-1928 (MIT Press, US, 1982; 2nd, revised, edition, University of
Chicago Press, US, 1993)
Maureen Furniss Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics (John Libbey, Australia, 1998)
John Halas Masters of Animation (BBC Books, UK, 1987)
John Halas The Contemporary Animator (Focal Press, UK, 1990)
K Laybourne The Animation Book (Crown, US, 1979)
Jeff Lenburg The Encyclopaedia of Animated Cartoon Series (Da Capo, US, 1981)
Jeff Lenburg Great Cartoon Directors (Da Capo, US, 1993)
E G Lutz Animated Cartoons: How they are made; their origin and development (Chapman and Hall, UK, 1920; Godron Press,
US, 1976)
L Maltin Of Mice and Magic (Plume, US, 1980)
G and D Peary (eds) The American Animated Cartoon (Dutton, UK, 1980)
Jayne Pilling (ed) That’s Not all Folks!: A Primer in Cartoonal Knowledge (BFI Publishing, UK, 1986)
Jayne Pilling (ed) Women & Animation: A Compendium (BFI Publishing, UK, 1992)
Jayne Pilling (ed) A Reader in Animation Studies (John Libbey, UK, 1997)
Robert Russett and Cecile Starr Experimental Animation: Origins of a New Art (Da Capo Press, US, 1988)
Charles Solomon (ed.) The Art of the Animated Image: an Anthology (American Film Institute, US, 1987)
Paul Wells Understanding Animation (Routledge, UK, 1998)
Gene Youngblood Expanded Cinema (1980)

Directories
Dennis Gifford American Animated Films: The Silent Era, 1897-1929 (McFarland, UK, 1990)
Dennis Gifford British Animated Films, 1895-1985: A Filmography (McFarland, UK, 1986)
Dennis Gifford The Great Cartoon Stars: A Who’s Who (Bloomsbury Books, UK, 1988)
David Kilmer The Animated Film Collector’s Guide: Worldwide Sources for Cartoons on Videotape and Laserdisc (John Libbey,
Australia, 1997)

Animators and Studios

T R Adams Tom and Jerry: 50 Years of Cat and Mouse (Pyramid Books, US, 1989)
Joe Adamson Tex Avery: King of Cartoons (Da Capo, US, 1985)
Joe Adamson Bugs Bunny: Fifty Years and Only One Grey Hare (Henry Holt, US, 1990)
Jerry Beck and Will Friedwald Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Brothers
Cartoons (Henry Holt, US, 1989)
John Canemaker Winsor McCay: His Life and Art (Abbeville, US, 1987)
John Canemaker Before the Animation Begins: The Art and Lives of Disney Inspirational Sketch Artists (Hyperion Books, US,
1996)
John Canemaker Tex Avery: The MGM Years (Turner Publishing, US, 1996)
John Canemaker Felix: The Twisted Tale of the World's Most Famous Cat (Pantheon Books, US, 1996)
Maynard Collins Norman McClaren (Canadian Film Institute, Canada, 1976)
Donald Crafton Emile Cohl, Caricature and Film (Princeton University Press, US, 1990)
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Christopher and Charles S. Finch The Art of Walt Disney: from Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms (Harry N Abrams US,
1995)
Vivien Halas and Paul Wells Halas & Batchelor: and Animated History (Southbank Publishing, UK, 2006)
Peter Hames (ed) Dark Alchemy: The Films of Jan Svankmajer (Praeger, US, 1995)
Ray Harryhausen Film Fantasy Scrapbook (Barnes, US, 1972)
Ray Harryhausen and Tony Dalton Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life (Aurum Press, UK, 2003)
Ray Harryhausen and Tony Dalton The Art of Ray Harryhausen (Aurum Press, UK, 2005)
Richard Hollis and Brian Sibley The Disney Studio Story (Octopus, UK, 1988)
Jeff Lenburg The Great Cartoon Directors (McFarland, US, 1983)
Norman McLaren The Drawings of Norman McLaren (Tunda Books, Canada, 1975)
Richard Marschall (ed) Daydreams and Nightmares: The Fantastic Visions of Winsor McCay (Fantagraphics Books, US, 1988)
Lotte Reiniger Shadow Puppets, Shadow Theatres and Shadow Films (Batsford, UK, 1970)
Valliere T Richard Norman McLaren: The National Film Board Years, 1947-1967 (Associated University Press, US 1982)
Richard Schickel The Disney Version (Michael Joseph, UK, 1986)
Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life (Orbis, UK, 1984)
Frank Thompson Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas: the Film, the Art, the Vision (Hyperion, US, 1998)
Marian Blackton Trimble J Stuart Blackton: a Personal Biography by his Daughter (Scarecrow Press, US, 1985)
Craig Yoe (ed) The Art of Mickey Mouse (Hyperion, US, 1991)

Technique
Preston Blair Animation (Walter Foster Art Books, US, 1945)
Bob Godfrey Film Animation Book (BBC Books, UK, 1974)
John Halas and Roger Manvell The Technique of Film Animation (Focal Press, UK, 1976)
John Hart The Art of the Storyboard: Storyboarding for Film, TV and Animation (Focal Press, US, 1999)
Stan Hayward Scriptwriting for Animation (Focal Press, UK, 1984)
Angie Jones and Jamie Oliff Thinking Animation: Bridging the Path between 2D and CG (Course Technology, 2006)
Kit Laybourne The Animation Book: A Complete Guide to Animated Filmmaking: From Flip Books to Sound Cartoons (Crown,
US, 1979, reprinted 1993)
E Levitan Handbook of Animation Techniques (Van Nostrand, US, 1979)
Roger Noake Animation: a Guide to Animated Film Techniques (Macdonald-Orbis, UK, 1988)
Zoltan Perisac The Animation Stand (Focal Press, UK, 1976)
Zoltan Perisac The Focal Guide to Shooting Animation (Focal Press, UK, 1978)
Brian G D Salt Basic Animation Stand Techniques (Pergamon Press, UK, 1977)
Brian G D Salt Movements in Animation (Pergamon Press, UK, 1976)
Susannah Shaw Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation (Focal Press, UK 2004)
C Solomon and R Stark The Complete Kodak Animation Book (Eastman Kodak, US, 1983)
Richard Taylor The Encyclopedia of Animation Techniques (Focal Press, UK, 1996)
Tony White The Animator’s Wookbook (Phaidon, UK, 1986)
Tony White Animation from Pencils to Pixels: Classical Techniques for the Digital Animator (Focal Press, UK, 2006)
Harold Whittaker and John Halas Timing for Animation (Focal Press, UK, 1981)

Direct animation
Norman McLaren Cameraless Animation (National Film Board of Canada, Canada, 1958)
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Model/ Stop-motion animation

L Bruce Holman Puppet Animation in the Cinema: History and Technique (The Tantivy Press, UK, 1975)
Peter Lord and Brian Sibley Cracking Animation (Thames and Hudson, UK, 1998)
Neil Pettigrew The Stop-Motion Filmography (McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, US, 1999)

Articles:
H. Potamkin ‘Dolls in motion: Starevitch Reveals Secrets’ World Film News, April 1936
H. Potamkin ‘Ladislas Starevitch and his Doll Films’ Theatre Guild Magazine, December 1929

Computer Animation
John Halas Computer Animation (Focal Press, UK, 1974)
Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton Creative Computer Graphics (Cambridge University Press, US, 1985)
Stan Hayward Computers for Animation (Focal Press, UK, 1984)
John Lasseter and Steve Daily Toy Story: the Art and Making of the Animated Film (Hyperion, US, 1995)
Ben de Leeuw Digital Cinematography (AP Professional/Academic Press, US, 1997)
Gregory McNichol Desktop Computer Animation (Focal Press, UK, 1992)
John Whitney Digital Harmony: On the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art (McGraw Hill, US, 1980)

Reception Studies
Sue Chambers, Nicki Karet, Neil Samson and Jane Sancho-Aldridge Cartoon Crazy?: Children’s Perception of ‘Action’ Cartoons
(Independent Television Commission, UK, 1998)

Websites (a selection of the many: through these you should be able to get links to most animation sites on the web)
Anim8ted http://www.anim8ed.org.uk/resources_index.asp
Animation World Network http://www.awn.com/index.php
Animation of Heaven & Hell in 3 D! http://www.awn.com/heaven_and_hell/
Animation Journal http://www.animationjournal.com/
Skillset Animation http://www.skillset.org/animation/overview/article_2967_1.asp

Wallchart
Animation and Computer Imaging (BKSTS, UK, 1997)

Note: Not all books or articles are in print