Before Ever After


Before Ever After: The Lost Lectures of Walt Disney’s Animation Studio (Disney Editions Deluxe) Hardcover – October 20, 2015
Author: Visit ‘s Don Hahn Page ID: 1484710819

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Walt Disney built a cartoon studio and an empire on the shoulders of Mickey Mouse, but to make the leap from shorts to feature films, he knew his artists had raise the bar.  At first Disney himself drove artists to nearby Chouinard Art Institute for classes, then expanded that educational effort by building his own in-house training program like no other before or since.

Before Ever After is a compilation of rare and previously unpublished lecture notes from that extraordinary training effort.   Among others, Frank Lloyd Wright who spoke about his philosophy on art and design, Alexander Woollcott about humor and entertainment, Yale color theorist Faber Birren on color theory, Disney Legends Art Babbit, Fred Moore, and Bill Tytla gave live critiques of their animation and artist Don Graham lectured extensively on composition, drawing and fine art.
Now some eighty years later, these lost lectures are presented with text and context, richly illustrated to show the brilliance of Walt’s plan to raise the level of his artists to invent the modern animated

About the Author



Don Hahn is a writer/producer/director whose credits include the worldwide phenomenon The Lion King, the classic Beauty and the Beast, the first animated film nominated for a Best Picture Oscar and Maleficent starring Angelina Jolie.   Don’s books on animation, art and creativity include the best seller Brain Storm, the acclaimed Drawn To Life: The Complete Works of Walt Stanchfield and the much anticipated Before Ever After: The Lost Lectures of Disney’s Animation Studio.

Tracey Miller-Zarneke has become a key figure in the world of animation, way beyond her credited roles on the feature films such as Chicken Little and The Emperor’s New Groove. She has authored eight books on the art of animation including The Art of Kung Fu Panda,  The Art of Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs and The Art of Planes.  Tracey served as editorial advisor on the landmark textbooks Producing Animation and Directing Animation.  She also serves on the Board of Directors of Women in Animation

Series: Disney Editions DeluxeHardcover: 448 pagesPublisher: Disney Editions; Deluxe edition (October 20, 2015)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1484710819ISBN-13: 978-1484710814 Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 1.4 x 11.3 inches Shipping Weight: 4.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #8,911 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #3 in Books > Arts & Photography > Business of Art #6 in Books > Arts & Photography > Graphic Design > Animation #10 in Books > Arts & Photography > History & Criticism > Criticism

Before Ever After: The Lost Lectures of Walt Disney’s Animation Studio by Don Hahn and Tracey Miller-Zarneke is a revolutionary book. It is the kind of book that raises the standards for Disney history books overall. It’s close to 450 pages long and when you start looking at it, you know right away that Don and Tracey tried to make every page special (they succeeded). Every document included in the book has been selected with extreme care. Most of the photos and illustrations have never been seen before, each of the lectures is special in its own way. The authors found a lot of great material and then started digging even deeper to find even more treasures.

This is the book I dreamed would be released about Disney’s Training Program. It’s "practically perfect in every way."

Of course, the only criticism one could raise, is one that could be raised about many books that are dear to our hearts (the criticism applies to my own books too): we wish the book were even larger and included even more of those rare illustrations and lectures.

A rare insight to the culture at The Disney Studios. Walt’s ambition that all his artists should be "artists" Places his vision clearly in the beginnings of what is now known as animation art.
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