Disney. L’arte di raccontare storie senza tempo

This book offers the key to enter a magical universe, letting us discover the secrets of the creative and artistic workshop of the Walt Disney Animation Studios.

We can see Disney artists at work as they use a wide variety of techniques to renew the age-old art of storytelling through pictures, adapting them to the spirit of the times: those stories that, transposed onto film, have been making children and adults around the world dream for nearly a century.

Walt Disney and his studio drew on the heritage of the most popular narratives from different cultural and literary traditions, creating a fascinating melting pot between different continents and eras of history, from Aesop to Charles Perrault, from the Brothers Grimm to Greco-Roman epics, all the way to Eastern fables and our own Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio.

The volume allows children and adults to physically enter the studio, understanding from the inside how an animation masterpiece is created, involving several years of work by an entire team. It is a slow, continuous and very labor-intensive process that builds an entire film from an initial idea, through thousands of images that gradually come to life and come alive.The volume leads readers to learn about the many professionals involved in a great and choral artistic and craft work.

A rich and rare apparatus of images, with drawings, sketches, and maquettes, will allow visitors to immerse themselves in a fascinating gallery of unforgettable characters: Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, Robin Hood and Snow White, the Little Mermaid and the characters from Frozen, and many, many more.

Edited by.

Walt Disney Animation Research Library.

Scientific advice

Federico Fiecconi – journalist, historian and critic of Italian comics and animation cinema, is the author of several essays and monographs on animation cinema and comics.