Sketchbook

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 legends of animation film design. Having shaped such films as The Lion King, Mulan and Beauty and the Beast to name a few, Bacher'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. 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.