CSE 456 - Story for Digital Animation

Required Books:

Mamet, David. On Directing Film

Block, Bruce.  The Visual Story: Seeing the Structure of Film, TV, and New Media, Focal Press, 2001.

Recommended Books:

Blair, Preston.  Cartoon Animation

Faigan, Gary. Facial Expression

Katz, Steven D.  Shot By Shot

Marsh Reginald. Anatomy For Artists

Vineyard, Jeremy.  Setting Up Your Shots

Blair, P. Animation, Walter T. Foster, 1949.

Bryne-Daniel, J. Grafilm, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970.

Bocek, J. Jiri Trnka: Artist and Puppet Master, Prague: Artia, 1965.

Cabarga, Leslie. The Fleischer Story, Nostalgia Press, 1976.

Canemaker, John. The Animated Raggedy Ann & Andy, Bobbs-Merrill, 1977.

Winsor McCay--His Life and Work, Abbeville Press, 1987.

Chanan, M. The Dream that Kicks, London, Boston, and Henley: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980.

Cholodenko, A. The Illusion of Life: Essays on Animation, Power Publications.

Collins, M. Norman McLaren, Canadian Film Institute, 1976.

Crafton, D. Before Mickey: The Animated Film, 1898-1928, Cambridge MIT Press, 1984.

Crafton, D. Emile Cohl, Caricature and Film, Princeton University Press, 1990.

Culhane, S. Animation, Fron Script to Screen, St. Martin's Press, 1988.

Culhane, J. Special Effects in the Movies, Ballantine Books, 1981.

Curtis, D. Len Lye, London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1987.

De Silva, R. The World of Animation, Eastman Kodak, 1979.

Field, S. The Screen Writer's Workbook, Dell Publishing Co., 1984.

Finch, C. The Art of Walt Disney, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1973.

Fleming, B. and Dobbs, D. Animating Facial Features and Expressions, Charles River Media, Inc, 1999.

Fox, D. and Waite, M. Computer Animation Primer, McGraw-Hill, 1983.

Graham, D. Composing Pictures, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970.

Halas, John. Masters of Animation, Salem House, 1987.

Computer Animation, Hastings House, 1976.

Visual Scripting, Hastings House, 1976.

Halas and Manvell, R. The Technique of Animation, Hastings House, 1968.

Halas and Manwell, R. Art in Movement: New Directions in Animation, Hastings House, 1968.

Harley, B. Optical Toys, Shire Publications, 1988.

Harovas, P. et. al. Mastering Maya Complete 2, Sybex, 2000.

Hart, John.  The Art of the Storyboard: Storyboarding for Film, TV, and Animation, Focal Press, 1999.

Hass, R. Muybridge, Man in Motion, University of California Press, 1976.

Holloway, R. Z is For Zagreb, Barnes, 1972.

Jones, C. Chuck Amuck, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1989.

Kerlow, I. and Rosebush, J. Computer Graphics for Designers and Artists. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1986.

Kindse, A. How to Make Animated Movies, Viking Press, 1970.

Kranz, S. Science and Technology in the Arts, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1974.

Kukes, R. The Zoetrope Book, Klassroom Kinetics, 1985.

Lawder, S. The Cubist Cinema, New York University Press, 1975.

Laybourne, K. The Animation Book, Crown, 1979.

Le Grice, M. Abstract Film and Beyond, MIT Press, 1977.

Lenburg, J. The Great Cartoon Directors, Da Capo Press, 1993.

Leyda, J., Voynow, Z. Eisenstein At Work, Pantheon Books, 1982.

Lutz, E. Animated Cartoons--How They are Made, Their Origin and Development, New York: Scribner's, 1920.

Lye, Len. Figures of Motion, Selected Writings, Ed. by Wystan Curnow/Roger Horrocks, Auckland University Press, 1984.

Madsen, Roy. Animated Film: Concepts, Methods, Uses, Interland Publ, 1969.

Maltin, L. Of Mice and Magic, McGraw-Hill, 1980.

Marek, K. Archaeology of the Cinema, Thames & Hudson, London, 1965.

McLaren, N. The Drawings of Norman McLaren, Montreal: Tundra Books, 1975.

Moholy-Nagay, L. Vision in Motion, Hillison and Etten, 1965.

Moritz, W. The Films of Oskar Fischinger, Film Culture, Nos. 58-59-60, 1974.

Muybridge, E. Complete Human and Animal Motion, Dover Books, 1987.

Neal, S. Cinema and Technology, Image, Sound, Colour, Indiana University Press, 1985.

Nicolaides, K. The Natural Way to Draw, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1941.

O'Konor, Louise, Viking Eggeling, 1880-1925, Artist and Filmmaker, Life and Work, Stockholm: Almqviwst and Wiksell, 1971.

Pilling, J. (ed.). Women and Animation: a Compendium, British Film Institute, 1992.

Prueitt, M. Art and the Computer, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984.

Quigley, M. Magic Shadows, The Story of the Origin of Motion Pictures, Georgetown University Press.

Richard, V. Norman McLaren, Manipulator of Movement, Univ of Delaware Press, 1982.

Roncarelli, R. The Computer Animation Dictionary, Springer-Verlog, 1990.

Russett, R. and Starr, C. Experimental Animation, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1976.

Sitney, P. Visionary Film, Oxford University Press, 1974.

Solomon, C., ed. The Art of the Animated Image, The American Film Institute, 1987.

Solomon, C. Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation, Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.

Stephenson, R. The Animated Film, Tantivy Press, 1973.

Thomas, F. and Johnston, O. The Illusion of Life, Abbeville Press, 1984.

Whitaker, H. and Halas, J. Timing for Animation, Focal Press, 1981.