Wednesday, February 25, 2009

NEW: Amid Amidi's Pixar Shorts and Animal Design Zoo

New from Amid Amidi (Cartoon Brew): the art of Pixar short films.

As many of you know, Pixar developed a lot of their technology and had a ton of break-throughs using the shorts format. films like Knick Knack, For the Birds and Gerry's Game are classics. Now finally, there's a book that looks at them all. In Store right now.




In The Daily Zoo, Chris Ayers creates visual feast of animal character designs. This is the kind of book that could appeal to the general book lover and be viewed on as a humour book, or it can be seen as a great reference book for style and design.

This is a great companion to David Coleman's Art of Animal Character Design, in terms of being a source of terrific animal drawings. The Daily Zoo is published by Design Studio Press, the same guys behind Skillful Huntsmen, Quantumscapes and Carlos Huante's Monstruo.