The gold standard for Disney biographies is "The Animated Man" (by Michael Barrier), but it unfortunately glosses over Mary Blair, UPA and a lot of the other things mentioned here. You might have more luck with John Canemaker's "Before the Animation Begins: The Art and Lives of Disney Inspirational Sketch Artists" and Charles Solomon's "…
The gold standard for Disney biographies is "The Animated Man" (by Michael Barrier), but it unfortunately glosses over Mary Blair, UPA and a lot of the other things mentioned here. You might have more luck with John Canemaker's "Before the Animation Begins: The Art and Lives of Disney Inspirational Sketch Artists" and Charles Solomon's "The Disney That Never Was," which go deep into the kind of process/aesthetics/studio-politics stuff we covered today. That first one especially was a book we referenced a lot.
The gold standard for Disney biographies is "The Animated Man" (by Michael Barrier), but it unfortunately glosses over Mary Blair, UPA and a lot of the other things mentioned here. You might have more luck with John Canemaker's "Before the Animation Begins: The Art and Lives of Disney Inspirational Sketch Artists" and Charles Solomon's "The Disney That Never Was," which go deep into the kind of process/aesthetics/studio-politics stuff we covered today. That first one especially was a book we referenced a lot.