Book List

Bookstore Texts for all courses in the Commercial Animation program.

The bookstore MAY have some or all of these books. They can also be found on-line at Amazon.ca or www.chapters.indigo.ca.  Oscars Art Books on Broadway, half a block west of Granville Street is a great place for animation and film books and has a 20% off, back to school sale.http://www.oscarsartbookstore.com/


Fall 2011

Anim 111
Blair, Preston, Cartoon Animation
“How To” Series, #26, Walter Foster Publishing, 1990
ISBN: 1560100842 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.75 x 9.01 x 10.27

Anim 111
Blair, Preston, Film Cartoons
“How To” Series, #190, Walter Foster Publishing, 1990
ISBN: 1560100699

Note: the above 2 books can be found combined in a newer edition:

Cartoon Animation: The Collector's Series
by Preston Blair (Author)
Paperback (October 15, 2004)
Language: English
Walter Foster Publishing ; ISBN: 1560100842

Anim 111 and Anim 113
Ham, Jack, How To Draw Animals
General Publishing Company, Toronto. 1982
Perigee;
ISBN: 0399508023 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.53 x 10.74 x 8.13

Anim 113
Edwards, Betty, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
J. P. Tarcher Publishing, Los Angeles. 1989
ISBN: 0874775132 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.83 x 8.94 x 7.47


Anim 114
Maltin, Leonard, Of Mice and Magic  (this was out of print, but is back now)
New American Library Trade;
ISBN: 0452259932 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.95 x 9.18 x 7.49

Spring 2012

Anim124
Rogers Peck, Stephen, Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990
ISBN: 0195030958 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.83 x 10.03 x 7.51


Anim 126
Lemay, Brian, Layout Design (Made Amazingly Simple)
Second Edition, Sheridan College Printing, 1994
ISBN: 0-9699419-0-0
This book is a special order and can be purchased from the author on his website: http://www.brianlemay.com/Books/Ordering.html

Anim 120
Myrl A. Schreibman, The Film Director Prepares
Watson-Guptill,  August 30, 2006
ISBN - 10:1580650678
ISBN - 13:9781580650670