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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The author of the "swoon-worthy debut" (Harper's Bazaar) The Charm Offensive returns with a festive romantic comedy about a woman who fakes an engagement with her landlord... only to fall for his sister. One year ago, recent Portland transplant Ellie Oliver had her dream job in animation and a Christmas Eve meet-cute with a woman at a bookstore that led her to fall in love over the course of a single night. But after a betrayal the next morning and...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981) was a German film director and animator best known for The Adventures of Prince Achmed, which was released in 1926 and is the oldest surviving animated movie. (It came out a full 11 years before Disney's Snow White!) As a little kid, Reiniger loved reading fairytales and fell in love with puppetry. At school, she learned about paperschnitte, or papercuts, which helped her create her signature style of silhouettes. She grew...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
From her imaginative childhood to her career as an illustrator, designer, and animator for Walt Disney Studios, Mary wouldn't play by the rules. At a time when studios wanted to hire men and think in black and white, Mary painted twinkling emerald skies, peach giraffes with tangerine spots, and magenta horses that could fly.
Author
Series
Dramacon volume 3
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
198 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Set at an anime convention, follows the romantic adventures of seventeen-year-old amateur writer Christine Leroux over the course of several years.
Author
Series
Dramacon volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
196 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Set at an anime convention, follows the romantic adventures of seventeen-year-old amateur writer Christie Leroux over the course of several years.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In their first year of college, two young women, one from a Florida swamp, the other from a Kentucky holler, both outsiders at their prestigious east coast college, meet in "Introduction to Sketch" and become instant best friends. A decade later, Mel and Sharon's lives remain intertwined, but so much else has changed. Now a semi-famous New York filmmaking duo, they draw upon their own pasts to make intimate animated movies, a process that has left...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography about the remarkable and often overshadowed career of Lotte Reiniger, a moviemaking pioneer, who first used her talent for hand-cutting paper silhouettes in the 1920s to create stop-motion animated movies. She invented the multiplane camera to give her animations depth of field and, with a small team, designed and directed the oldest full-length animated film in existence. Lotte eventually created approximately sixty films...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"Young Mary Browne Robinson loved color, even her name had a color in it. All she wanted to do was to make art. But becoming an artist wasn't an easy. Her parents worked hard to provide her paper and paints, and Mary worked hard to enter contests and earn a spot at a school for the arts. She even had to work hard to find her place at the Walt Disney Studios. But Walt was easily impressed by Mary Blair. When she joined his trip to South America, Mary...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
72 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Based on Mindy Johnson's critically acclaimed Disney Editions title, Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation, this nonfiction picture book is a fun and inspiring look at many of the amazing women who have worked at Disney Animation over the years--from Story Artists, to Animators to Inkers and Painters, all with unique personalities and accomplishments, such as becoming a record-holding pilot, or designing Hollywood monsters, or creating...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When artist Tally Nourigat left her life in Portland to move to Los Angeles and pursue a job in animation, she realized that despite her research, nothing truly prepared her for the wild world that awaited in the studios of Southern California. From grinding on storyboard test after storyboard test to getting a job at a major studio to searching for an apartment in ... the Valley ... this autobiographical how-to graphic novel explores the highest...
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