We have more new books for the Animation & VFX Library on the 11th Floor at 6 Mitre Passage, our new home in North Greenwich.New books include the Hue Book of Animation - a great guide for getting started...
New books include the Hue Book of Animation - a great guide for getting started if you've never animated before - and Cracking Animation by Aardman Animation, the team behind Wallace & Gromit (and the new Chicken Run movie, released on Netflix on 15 December). We also have two new copies of "Producing Animation", by Katherine Winder and Zahra Dowlatabadi.
New Books
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| Animation Library 11th Floor |
Cartooning Animation 1
Preston Blair was one of the finest animators from the early days of the Walt Disney Studios. Highlights include his work on Fantasia (1940), animating the Mickey Mouse scenes in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" - and the hippo-alligator dance in the "Dance of the Hours".
The Hero With a Thousand Faces is is a work of comparative mythology by Joseph Campbell, one of the classic resources on story and storytelling - the source of myths and stories for thousands of years.
Animation & VFX Library
DVDs
We also have a large collection of DVDs of animation, VFX and classic movies.
Books by Subject
We have books on:
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VFX - 3D Concept Art & Vis DevStory & StoryboardingComics & Graphic NovelsArt & DesignProducing Anim & VFX
Two Weeks Maximum
As always, make sure you check the books out in the orange Library Book (see photo on the right), leaving your name, the name of the book checked out, the author's name, your email address, and the date you checked it out. Also don't forget to sign the books back in again so we know they have been returned.
Free to Use
The animation library is free, but please don't keep books for more than two weeks.
Online Library
We also have an online library, where books can be accessed digitally. To login in to the online library at Escape Studios, follow this link.
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| New Pixar Studio books |
New Books - Pixar
We've recently acquired some more new books for the Escape Studios Animation library, where we keep traditional hard copies (ie actual physical books) on the 11th Floor at 6 Mitre Passage.
We've recently acquired some more new books for the Escape Studios Animation library, where we keep traditional hard copies (ie actual physical books) on the 11th Floor at 6 Mitre Passage.
The new books are "Pixar Storytelling" and "Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination", new titles which will help our 2nd year animators as they start their group film projects.
The Animation Library is located just outside Toontown classroom on the 11th Floor.
The Escape Studios Animation Library (a traditional library, with actual books) is located on the 11th Floor at 6 Mitre Passage, outside Toontown classroom.
All the books are free to borrow and read, but you must sign them out with your name, email address and date in the little Orange Library Book (see image on the right).
Animator's Survival Kit & Prepare to Board
Recently we acquired more copies of two of our most popular books: The Animator's Survival Kit by Richard Williams and "Prepare to Board" by Nancy Beiman, on the Art of Storyboarding.
Escape Studios Animation Library
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| Check out the books in the orange book |
Into The Spiderverse
New books this year include "The Art of Spiderman - Into the Spiderverse", and "The Art of Frozen", and also "Directing the Story" by Disney director Francis Glebas.
Free - But Please Sign Out
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| New Books - Into The Spiderverse |
Animation Books
There are many useful books in Online Library and the traditional library. We have many physical copies of "The Animator's Survival Kit", and also many titles on development, character and creature animation, independent film finance, acting, and design. Recent additions include a biography of Walt Disney and also books on animating in Maya.
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| New books for the library |
We also have online copies of these (and many other) books; just follow the link to the online library and start searching.
For physical books, the maximum loan is two weeks. Please sign the books back in again within two weeks.
Orange Library Book
To sign books out of the physical library, please use the Orange Library Book, where you can sign the books out, leaving the date, your name, the title borrowed and your email address.
To sign books out of the physical library, please use the Orange Library Book, where you can sign the books out, leaving the date, your name, the title borrowed and your email address.
Two Weeks Maximum
Library & Learning Resources
To see more about library and other learning resources at Escape Studios, follow these links:
Producing Animation by Zahra DowlatabadiNew books for the Animation LibraryAnimator's Survival Kit - Best Book to Learn AnimationAnimator's Survival Kit "Minis"Reading List for Story & PrevisLearning Resources at Escape StudiosVimeo Channel Tutorials
Online Library
We also have an online library, where books can be accessed digitally. To login in to the online library at Escape Studios, follow this link.
The Escape Studios Animation Blog offers a personal view on the art of animation and visual effects. To apply for one of our courses, follow this link.