Vision: Color and Composition for Film

Featuring hundreds of carefully hand-crafted illustrations as well as significant tuition on how to best compose and use images to create the most powerful frames, this book is potentially Hans P. Bacher's life's work encapsulated in one volume. Here, the internationally renowned production designer shares his expertise in an easy-to-follow and imaginative way – giving tips, exercises, and a depth of knowledge garnered from a lifetime in the industry.

Bacher's production designs have established the look of many seminal animated films such as The Lion King, Balto, Mulan and Beauty and the Beast, so fans of his work will be delighted. While keeping the focus on storytelling, Bacher instructs readers in the art of animated cinematography with the ever-present aim of soliciting an emotional response from the audience. Vision: Color and Composition for Film represents an amazing depth of experience — and is visually arresting to boot.

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• Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers
• Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation
• Figure Drawing: Design and Invention
• Framed Drawing Techniques: Mastering Ballpoint Pen, Graphite Pencil, and Digital Tools for Visual Storytelling
• Directing the Story: Professional Storytelling and Storyboarding Techniques for Live Action and Animation
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• Sketchbook: Composition Studies for Film
• Understanding Movies (13th Edition)
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