Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation

221 Pages·2007·62.95 MB·English

by  Hans Bacher

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I want to thank the following
persons for their support in
creating this book – Don Hahn,
Yasutaka Shinozaki, Toshio
Ishibashi, Maggie Gisel, Dale
Kennedy, Lella Smith, Vivian
Procopio, and Rosemarie
Soriaga.
If you are interested in more
information, go to my blog at
www.its-a-wrap.blogspot.com.
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Once upon a time in a scouting locations for Beauty and filmmaking with his students and
parking lot at Universal Studios the Beast, driving fast, stopping for collaborators behind the doors of
in Hollywood, California sat a beer, taking pictures, and learning the universities and film studios that
small trailer – the kind of seedy how to curse in German. His work were lucky enough to get him. Now
temporary office space that on Beauty and the Beast set an for the first time in this book, you
elementary schools use when they unforgettable epic style for the film. can take a peek into the mind of
are out of classroom space. Hans His attention to detail and research this amazing designer and my good
Bacher sat at a drafting table deep is both expansive and surgically friend Hans Bacher.
inside, bathed in cigarette smoke focused. He has every book, every
Enjoy.
and Magic Marker fumes strong photo, every graphic novel, every
enough to kill a lesser man. He was film on every topic, and if he Don Hahn
working to flesh out the bones of doesn’t, he knows who has it or Producer
a film called Who Framed Robert how to get it within 24 hours. Beauty and the Beast
Rabbit. People like Bob Zemeckis, He has helped set the style for The Lion King
Chuck Jones, Steven Spielberg, and so many memorable animated films
Richard Williams would make the from The Lion King to his exquisite
trip back to the trailers to smell production design on Mulan. For
the markers and see what Hans years he has shared his encyclo-
and others (like the great storyman pedic knowledge of animation and
Joe Ranft) had come up with for
Roger, Jessica, and Baby Herman.
Hans was always the kind
of artist I wanted to get in early in
pre-production. You could build an
entire film on the shoulders of his
inspiring visual development work.
Ask anybody who has worked with
him and they’ll use the same ten
words to describe his genius: hard-
est working, opinionated, brilliant,
opinionated, the most knowledge-
able, and opinionated. He is also
opinionated. Don’t misunderstand.
You really really want his opinion.
Years after Who Framed Roger
Rabbit, I was driving down a dirt
road in France’s Loire Valley with
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Hans as my navigator. We were
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