Drawing life back into animation : a personal journey through the toon renaissance of the 1990s / Tom Sito.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sito, Tom, 1956- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animated film industry--United States--History.

Animated film industry.

Animated films--Social aspects--United States.

Animated films.

Animated television music.

Physical Description:

182 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton FL : CRC Press, 2026.

Summary:

"By the 1980s animated cartoons were seen as an artform in decline. An archaic vestige of the old Hollywood studio system. Yet by the 1990s animation was booming. Blockbuster movies and TV shows, interactive games and special effects extravaganzas all generating billions of dollars. What happened? Did everyone simply wake up one day and decide they liked cartoons again? It is a story of generations and societal change. Artists and moguls. Geniuses and hustlers. Join Tom Sito, a veteran Hollywood animator who was there as he takes us deep inside the studio corridors to watch the birth of Roger and Jessica, Bart and Lisa, Woody and Buzz, Shrek, Simba, Mario, Lara Croft and Yu Gi Oh. Key Features: - Part history, part memoir, written by a top industry insider who witnessed the events as they happened. - Not focused on one particular studio or label, but a sweeping overview of the animation industry in the 1990s and the societal and technological changes that effected it. - It is a story of generations. How the artists of Hollywood's Golden Age yielded the baton to the Baby Boom generation who carried it on into the Millenium. - It explains how animation, a business once perceived to be outmoded, came back to become central to how we use our modern media. - Featuring many first-person anecdotes from the backrooms and studio lots where the animation renaissance was created"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

This Business is Dead The Rise and Fall of Saturday Morning: 1959-2002 What Would Walt Do? 13 Soho Square Japan Education: The Struggle to Pass the Torch Moguls, Mavericks and Movie Brats The New Team: To Teach an Old Mouse New Tricks Roger Rabbit The Little Mermaid Cowabunga!: The Simpsons Toontown Boomtown: Television 1989-1997 Toontown Boomtown: Animated Movies 1989-1997 The Digital Revolution The Fall and Rise of Stop Motion: 1993-2022 The Retreat of Hand-Drawn Animation Epilogue

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Sito, Tom, 1956- Drawing life back into animation

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781138501478

1138501476

9781138501454

113850145X

OCLC:

1535770649

Publisher Number:

CIPO000336800