Traces the development of Disney animation, explains what made Disney's style unique, and features original sketches and drawings revealing the origins of Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters.

We can not at the beginning of time, put everything wants to know, what the character to appear, the story is what.It's a deep charming journey in their creativeness, their ideas, their vision, and their powerful, simple, poetic aesthetic art; an art that will never be reached again(especially now that animation is just about lifeless CG movies). We struggled to build interesting, appealing characters, but most of all we worked to find ways to make the audience feel the emotions of the animated figures— emotions the audience could “'relate to, identify with, and become involved in.

As a music lover and aspiring animator, it has been rather difficult for me to find any sources that can go over both topics and not just one or the other. To make the audience seem to find the shadow of someone in real life, the emotions expressed by the animated characters must also make the audience feel that they are authentic. Its biased Disney-perspective gave it a sense that Disney is the only studio that has the capability to create such stunning films.Within chapter three of the book, titled “The Principles of Animation”, there was a lot of significant information that can help an aspiring animator really create the “illusion of life”, just as the title suggests, by using the 12 principles of animation, exaggeration, and expression. Of the many books on animation and Disney, The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation is probably the best.