Unlocking Animation Layout

Expert Techniques for Effective Backgrounds

By: Dan Hansen

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Hardcover | 24 June 2025 | Edition Number 1

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From his days working under the Nine Old Men and creating layout for Disney classics like Aladdin and Hercules to more than a decade of teaching animation to the rising generation at CalArts, Dan Hansen has accumulated a lifetime of knowledge and is sharing it with you in Unlocking Animation Layout. Acting as your personal mentor, Hansen walks you through all of the elements of design and layout youâll need to become a successful layout artist. Each chapter discusses a new concept using actual layout drawings from real films, includes a list of film examples of the idea in action, and offers an assignment that, once completed, can become part of your portfolio.

While other books get in depth about the technical aspects of perspective or animation pipeline, they wonât bring you any closer to becoming a better artist. But Unlocking Animation Layout does just that, focusing on the design and art skills youâll need to affect the viewerâs experience and help the director tell the story. Packed with information you wonât find anywhere else, this book is an invaluable resource for students and professionals who are interested in improving their animation layout skills.

Key Features

Hundreds of full-color images, including previously unpublished layouts from animated features and drawings from actual students

Loaded with information and topics you wonât find anywhere else, like Disneyâs special approach to Graphics and Contrast and Affinity

Lists of live action and animated films and timestamps to accompany each chapter

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