Animation Sketchbooks

Fans of independent animation -- particularly those with aspirations to make animated films themselves -- will understand what a special book this is. I found it totally inspiring. At my studio, it sits on a bookshelf alongside Maureen Furniss' "The Animation Bible", John Halas' "Visual Scripting", and Shamus Culhane's "Animation From Script To Screen", and Tod Polson's "The Noble Approach". Highly recommended.

It's introducing me to some new talent I wasn't aware of and is proving to be very inspirational. It's a tome worthy of owning and you'll go to it time and time again.

The media could not be loaded.  There seems to be two publishers for this title. Chronicle Books are publishing it with the orange cover, and probably for distributing in USA. Thames & Hudson publishes it with a red cover and distributes it for Europe. So the price of the book will vary depending on where you buy it.Animation Sketchbooks follows in the same format as  Comics Sketchbooks: The Private Worlds of Today's Most Creative Talents  and  Graphic: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World's Great Graphic Designers . It features the sketchbooks of creative individuals, in this case, those who work for animation, not necessarily just artists.50 creatives are featured and with 320 pages, it still means that the coverage for each person is quite limited. The text comes in the form of quotes plus a short profile on who they are, what they do and have created. There's not much text. The focus of the book is on showing the insides of their sketchbooks.The sketchbook pages come in the form of sketches, collages and doodles. A lot are random musings.It's difficult for me to understand the purpose of the book, probably as a pool of random sketchbook pages to dive into. The text doesn't talk much about animation and the sketchbook pages aren't necessarily linked to animation.If you want to check out more work, there's a listing of websites at the back of the book. These are the featured:Nancy AndrewsLilli CarréMartha ColburnLuis CookSuzanne DeakinJo DeryPaul DriessenFélix Dufour-LaperrièreAdam ElliotJanie GeiserPhilippe GrammaticopoulosPierre-Luc GranjonBrent GreenLaura HeitIsabel HergueraDon HertzfeldtChris HintonJonathan HodgsonStephen IrwinAvish KhebrehzadehFran KrauseRaimund KrummeSimone MassiMiwa MatreyekFlorence MiailheMirai MizueDavid OReillyOsbert ParkerPriit PärnMichaela PavlátováRegina PessoaDavid PolonskyJeff ScherAllison SchulnikGeorges SchwizgebelMaureen SelwoodDash ShawDavid ShrigleyCat SolenStacey SteersSteven SubotnickChris SullivanMalcolm SutherlandJim TrainorRee TreweekPaul VesterJ. J. VillardChel WhiteRun WrakeKoji Yamamura(See more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

Great for inspiration!