--- product_id: 106798435 title: "The Noble Approach: Maurice Noble and the Zen of Animation Design" price: "VT2684" currency: VUV in_stock: false reviews_count: 11 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/106798435-the-noble-approach-maurice-noble-and-the-zen-of-animation store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # The Noble Approach: Maurice Noble and the Zen of Animation Design **Price:** VT2684 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Noble Approach: Maurice Noble and the Zen of Animation Design - **How much does it cost?** VT2684 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/106798435-the-noble-approach-maurice-noble-and-the-zen-of-animation) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The Noble Approach: Maurice Noble and the Zen of Animation Design - Kindle edition by Polson, Tod, Noble, Maurice, Jones, Chuck. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Noble Approach: Maurice Noble and the Zen of Animation Design. Review: Amazing Book - Well worth the money - The book arrived in great condition. The pages are packed full of Maurice Noble's artwork (sketches, handwritten notes and final paintings) and design process explanations. It's amazing to read about his approach to animation design. The book is broken up into sections on story, design, color, etc. I also really enjoyed learning about his job history, including the Disney strike. I recommend to any animator, illustrator, or visual artist. It's well worth the money. Reading just the color section is equivalent or better than a color theory course - but with thoughtful insights from Maurice Noble himself. Review: Good book for those into animation and design - The Noble Approach is a book that's part biography and part animation design tips featuring the late great Maurice Noble. As a kid, I would watch the Warner Bros cartoons and never think about things like art and design. They are good which is why people watch them. Well, in this book, you'll go behind the scenes and look at the person who has a hand at creating some of these animated productions, and understand his design philosophies. Author Tod Polson who has apprenticed under Noble has done a good job with the biography detailing the designer's life and career right from the start. It's an inspiring tale of someone who has gone through a tumultuous period, with the need to support his family while still young, going through various career changes, having the ups and downs with co-workers, while still maintaining the passion to put out good design for animation and screen. The biography is about a third of the book. The rest are his philosophies on design. It's on how he handles story beats, story elements, using reference, contrast, simplifying elements, colour theory, perspective, layout, and more. The text and the illustrated examples are insightful. It's a collection of design principles he has learned and compiled over the 60 years he spent in the industry. It's a good book for those into animation and design, or into traditional animation design. (There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my desertcart profile for the link.) ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B00EB2Q5OS | | Accessibility | Learn more | | Best Sellers Rank | #404,715 in Kindle Store ( See Top 100 in Kindle Store ) #38 in Animation Graphic Design (Kindle Store) #65 in Art Reference #170 in Biographies of Artists, Architects & Photographers (Kindle Store) | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (218) | | Enhanced typesetting | Enabled | | File size | 30.8 MB | | ISBN-13 | 978-1452127385 | | Language | English | | Page Flip | Enabled | | Print length | 177 pages | | Publication date | August 13, 2013 | | Publisher | Chronicle Books LLC | | Screen Reader | Supported | | Word Wise | Enabled | | X-Ray | Not Enabled | ## Images ![The Noble Approach: Maurice Noble and the Zen of Animation Design - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A1N55pQr+yL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazing Book - Well worth the money *by P***R on December 21, 2022* The book arrived in great condition. The pages are packed full of Maurice Noble's artwork (sketches, handwritten notes and final paintings) and design process explanations. It's amazing to read about his approach to animation design. The book is broken up into sections on story, design, color, etc. I also really enjoyed learning about his job history, including the Disney strike. I recommend to any animator, illustrator, or visual artist. It's well worth the money. Reading just the color section is equivalent or better than a color theory course - but with thoughtful insights from Maurice Noble himself. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good book for those into animation and design *by P***A on November 6, 2013* The Noble Approach is a book that's part biography and part animation design tips featuring the late great Maurice Noble. As a kid, I would watch the Warner Bros cartoons and never think about things like art and design. They are good which is why people watch them. Well, in this book, you'll go behind the scenes and look at the person who has a hand at creating some of these animated productions, and understand his design philosophies. Author Tod Polson who has apprenticed under Noble has done a good job with the biography detailing the designer's life and career right from the start. It's an inspiring tale of someone who has gone through a tumultuous period, with the need to support his family while still young, going through various career changes, having the ups and downs with co-workers, while still maintaining the passion to put out good design for animation and screen. The biography is about a third of the book. The rest are his philosophies on design. It's on how he handles story beats, story elements, using reference, contrast, simplifying elements, colour theory, perspective, layout, and more. The text and the illustrated examples are insightful. It's a collection of design principles he has learned and compiled over the 60 years he spent in the industry. It's a good book for those into animation and design, or into traditional animation design. (There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.) ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The New Bible of Animation Design *by T***I on August 17, 2013* If you're reading this review, you obviously don't need an introduction to who Maurice Noble was. His contributions as a designer and layout man to such landmark animated films as RABBIT SEASONING, WHAT'S OPERA DOC?, DUCK AMUCK, ROBIN HOOD DAFFY, the Road Runner series, and DUCK DODGERS IN THE 241/2TH CENTURY make his name as firmly inseparable from them as the director Chuck Jones's. Tod Polson was a protégé of Noble's who has finally realized his generous teacher's dream of putting all of Noble's notes and theories on animation design in book form. You'll first learn about Noble's history and find out how things were like in the ever-evolving Golden Age of animation, and then how things got so bad that Noble was afraid the wisdom he mistook for common knowledge would vanish into the ether - hence why he wanted his thoughts recorded in the first place! If you want to know how Noble did it and how you can possibly instill some of his own virtues into your work, don't just watch the films. Let Polson take you on this very intimate journey and show you how Noble took care to make sure his design met the needs of every single element of an animated film and not the other way around. More importantly, the book is lavishly and colorfully illustrated to appropriately aid the instructions, driving home every point clearly and beautifully. Anyone with an interest in animation, filmmaking, or art in general should buy this book without hesitation. 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