Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation Amid Amidi
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC

Cartoon-modern-couv.jpg Titre: Cartoon Modern, Style and Design in Fifties Animation. On the rebound, the '50s fine art graphic design style of these cartoons knocked me out. It's beautiful to handle this stuff, . Due to rising production costs and changing tastes, animators were forced to cut more and more corners in their work and gradually adjust to the newer styles coming out at the time. I have always loved animation, but recently I've been making some live action shorts as well. March 18th, 2010 Filed under: Reviews - Books by Editor in Chief. Artists, animators, cartoon lovers and afficionados of midcentury modern design have to have this. The backgrounds in these cartoons are often the real highlight of the short, and look all the way forward to UPA's cartoon modern style of the early fifties. Book Review: Cartoon Modern – Style and Design in Fifties Animation by Amid Amidi. Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation has in the few years since its publication become a bible of an epoch in cartoon (and winner of the Theater Library Association Award). The book is designed and written by historian Amid Amidi, whose recent Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation won the prestigious Theatre Library Association Award for best film or television book of 2006. It's so much faster, and the things you can do with the equipment is so fascinating!