

With the full cooperation of Walt Disney Productions and free access to the studio s priceless archives, the authors took unparalleled advantage of their intimate long-term experience with animated films to choose the precise drawings to illustrate their points from among hundreds of thousands of pieces of artwork carefully stored away.

From the blurb The most complete book on the subject ever written, this is the fascinating inside story by two long-term Disney animators of the gradual perfecting of a relatively young and particularly American art form which no other studio has ever been able to equal. The Illusion of Life Disney Animation Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston Walt Disney Productions, New York, 1981, printed in Italy, first edition.
