Featuring hundreds of carefully hand-crafted illustrations by the internationally renowned
production designer Hans Bacher Sketchbook - Composition Studies for Film is a unique journey
through the mind and creative process of one of the artistic legends in animation film design.
Having shaped such films as The Lion King Mulan and Beauty and the Beast to name a few Hans's
work is a part of the very cultural fabric of our age. Here the artist puts on display the
rarely discussed first part of image making for film the conceptual thumbnail. Exquisitely
beautiful in themselves these small illustrations represent the birth of what eventually
becomes the iconic images we experience on the silver screen. Essential to anyone interested
in understanding the skeletal structure that exists underneath stunning imagery in all forms of
media this book is especially relevant today with the dramatic increase of interest in film
and game design. Although students today have ready access to and an understanding of technical
aspects of the craft using associated software the area most lacking in accessible information
is this quintessential first part of thumb-nailing an image. This unique book will provide the
student and professional with the fundamentals of conceptualizing images and how these can be
used in composition in the related fields of illustration graphic novels 2D animation 3D
animation photography and cinematography.
