its a wonderful book - it was a day-one purchase for me.
as you mentioned, its all drawings of animation frames - usually not complete frame-by-frame sequences but rather the important frames where you often can see the notes where the inbetween frames between these key pictures have to be inserted to produce the desired animation affect.
i disagree about the foldouts being unnecessary - they allow more frames per page, and thus being able to appreciate the sequence in question easier, noticing the subtleties better without having to constantly flip pages back and forth.
what is a necessary drawback with this book is that while it is of impressive size (a friend likened its appeal to bringing back memories of the fairytale books of his childhood), it can only contain so many snapshots of disneys vast animation history. for every masterful drawing or scene, scores of just-as-memorable ones spring to mind. we dont get any single frame of robin hood, and just one single picture of the "possible mate" dog/girl pairings of 101 dalmatians (walk cycles for those would have been a dream come true). we get some baloo and some king louie, and but one frame of milt kahls astounding shere kahn.
but then, we get more than enough lovely character drawings (edgar of aristocats dancing in shirt and shorts - hilarious!) from all eras, just as much as could possible be crammed inside such a book. there is a lot to be learned from these drawings - not just for people dabbling in animation - because they are drawings made for telling story and character.
its a wonderful book - it was a day-one purchase for me.
as you mentioned, its all drawings of animation frames - usually not complete frame-by-frame sequences but rather the important frames where you often can see the notes where the inbetween frames between these key pictures have to be inserted to produce the desired animation affect.
i disagree about the foldouts being unnecessary - they allow more frames per page, and thus being able to appreciate the sequence in question easier, noticing the subtleties better without having to constantly flip pages back and forth.
what is a necessary drawback with this book is that while it is of impressive size (a friend likened its appeal to bringing back memories of the fairytale books of his childhood), it can only contain so many snapshots of disneys vast animation history. for every masterful drawing or scene, scores of just-as-memorable ones spring to mind. we dont get any single frame of robin hood, and just one single picture of the "possible mate" dog/girl pairings of 101 dalmatians (walk cycles for those would have been a dream come true). we get some baloo and some king louie, and but one frame of milt kahls astounding shere kahn.
but then, we get more than enough lovely character drawings (edgar of aristocats dancing in shirt and shorts - hilarious!) from all eras, just as much as could possible be crammed inside such a book. there is a lot to be learned from these drawings - not just for people dabbling in animation - because they are drawings made for telling story and character.