Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation Amid Amidi
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC

The book is designed and written by historian Amid Amidi, whose recent Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation won the prestigious Theatre Library Association Award for best film or television book of 2006. In the end we didn't, but it did have some influence on Neighbors From Hell. March 18th, 2010 Filed under: Reviews - Books by Editor in Chief. Joined by contemporary animator Mark Kausler (Beauty and The Beast, The Lion King), Lou Romano (production designer of Pixars, The Incredibles) and author/historian Amid Amidi (Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation). I have always loved animation, but recently I've been making some live action shorts as well. An index page listing The Fifties content. It's beautiful to handle this stuff, . It's so much faster, and the things you can do with the equipment is so fascinating! Confidential or The Black Dahlia. Retro Rockets: The design theme for the whole decade, fins and all. Cartoon Modern is a blog and a book about the visual style and design in animation from the fifties. This includes modern noir set during the Fifties like L.A. Book Review: Cartoon Modern – Style and Design in Fifties Animation by Amid Amidi.