Walt Disney's World of Fantasy

A wonderfully huge art book on Disney. It has tons of large format pictures of art from the creation classic animated shorts, animated features, live action films, and Disneyland. The animated artwork is incredible with a wealth of inspiration sketches, background, and cels that are not in other books. The same goes for the love action, and it was nice seeing that the animators created beautiful inspiration art of sets to be built. And the Disneyland pictures are very special, lots of construction photos that were new to me, along with pictures of vintage attractions long gone like the big pirate ship in Fantasyland. One thiong I liked about this book that is not always in the older books, is they actually name the Disney artists and employees in many of the pictures. Some nice pictures of Walt you may not have seen before. Animators like Fred Ward, Jack Kinney, Ward Kimball, Bill Justice, Bill Reed, Claude Coats, John Hench, matte artist peter Ellenshaw, studio composer Oliver Wallace, and many more. Nice comments too in the book by artists, like Ed Babbitts's explanation of animating weight to emphasize reality. If you go to the trouble to get this book, you need to know that the 1987 edition printed in Spain is actually MUCH better than the 1st edition from 1982, as they took steps to improve both the picture quality as well as the interior ink and paper quality of the book. A terrific book for any Walt Disney collector. A note for parents, page 135 has the rarely seen uncensored sketches for the centaurettes in Fantasia, with anatomically correct top halves. It is a big heavy book, a beautiful cloth binding with gold gilt image, and is 11 3/4 inches high x 9 1/2 inches wide x 1 1/2 inches thick.