
Makin' Toons
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: What a Great Idea! How Some Tip-Top Toons Were Born
- The Bunny Did It, After All: Roger Rabbit Ignites the Toon Boom
- A Little Mermaid Is Spawned in Burbank
- The Animated Sitcom Is Reborn: Meet The Simpsons
- An Angry Chihuahua and a Retarded Cat: Ren & Stimpy Get Their Start in the Biz
- Tim Burton Shares His Nightmare With the World
- Giving His Creation Life . Down in Dexter's Laboratory
- Whooping Some Cartoon Ass, Powerpuff Style
- Congratulations, Mrs. Lion! It's a Boy: The Birth of The Lion King
- Pretty as a Pixel: Toy Story Becomes the First CGI Toon Feature
- Mr. Hankey Goes to Hollywood: How South Park Got Started
- Middle-Aged White Guys Make It to King of the Hill
- Now That's an Ugly Baby: Shrek Happens
- Dawn of a New Ice Age
- Chapter 2: Putting It Together: How Four Humongous Cartoon Hits Were Developed
- He's Mean and He's Green: Bringing Shrek to the Screen
- Just Your Typical Yellow Cartoon Family: Turning The Simpsons Shorts into the Most Popular Animated Series in TV History
- A Fish Tale That Changed Everything: How a Tadpole Grew into The Little Mermaid and Woke Up Disney Feature Animation
- Something Silly Is Afin: Putting SpongeBob SquarePants Together
- Chapter 3: Auteur! Auteur! Those Creative Geniuses Who Can Do It All
- Let's Give 'Em Boogers and Farts: John Kricfalusi Finds a Home for Ren & Stimpy
- From Russia, With Glove: Genndy Tartakovsky's Dexter's Lab Explodes
- Craig McCracken's Mighty Mites: The Powerpuff Girls
- You Don't Know Jack: Genndy's Stylish Samurai Cuts Loose
- He Said "Size" . Huh Huh Huh: Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head Rock On
- Chapter 4: And Then I Wrote . How Screenwriters and Story Artists Get Toons Moving
- Spooning With Toons: Penning The Tick for the Tube
- The Vis Dev of Beau, Bea, and Al: Writing Some Animated Disney Classics-with Pictures
- Chairwoman of the Boards: Getting the Story of The Lion King Up and Running
- To Infinitives and Beyond: Scripting Pixar's Toy Story and Toy Story 2
- Chapter 5: Ain't That a Pretty Picture: Creating the Stunning Visuals of TV and Film Cartoons
- Standing Out in the Background: The Brilliant Art Direction of Samurai Jack
- Turning the Lights Down on the Dark Knight: Painter Eric Radomski Cloaks Batman in Shadows
- Painting with the Colors of the Wind: Giaimo's Distinctive Designs for Pocahontas
- Rhapsody in Aqua, Cobalt, and Periwinkle: Susan Goldberg's Fantasia/2000 Art Direction
- Amazing Feats of Clay: Mr. Melton's Marvelous Maquettes
- Chapter 6: But What I Really Wanna Do Is . The All-Consuming Task of Directing Toons
- Directing a Film That Nobody Wanted to Work On: The Lion King
- It's All in the Timing: Directing Toons for Cartoon Network
- Lights . Camera . Simulation: Helming the Computer-Generated Monsters, Inc.
- Sub-Zero Hero at the Helm: Directing Blue Sky's Surprise Hit Ice Age
- Chapter 7: That Exotic, Rare Bird-the Animator: Using Pencils and Pixels to Give Their Creations Life
- Deja's View: Animating Disney's Modern Heroes and Villains
- Ya Gotta Have Courage: Dilworth's Cowardly Dog Leaps into Action
- Sheer Genie-us: Eric Goldberg Conjures Up Aladdin's Kinetic Comic Centerpiece
- Chapter 8: Big-Shot Toon Producer: The Nuts and Bolts (and Falling Anvils) of Producing Animation
- The Mother of All Simpsons: Margot Pipkin, Animation Producer
- Talking Babies Are Born: Producing Nickelodeon's Rugrats
- Who P-P-P-Produced Roger Rabbit?
- Chapter 9: Who Said That?!: The Art of Giving Voice to Cartoon Characters
- June's Foray to Fame: The Queen of All Voice Artists
- Something Wicked This Way Slimes: The Malevolent Tones of Ursula
- Way Out West: A Versatile Voice Artist Named Billy
- Chillin' With Sid: John Leguizamo's Lovable Ice Age Sloth
- Missed It By That Much: The Part Almost Went To .
- Chapter 10: Makin' Toons Croon: Those Musical Marvels Who Compose the Merry Melodies
- The Songs Always Come First: Alan Menken and Partners Raise the Musical Bar
- Chapter 11: Nothing Personal, It's Just Business: A Peek Behind the Glamorous Façade of the Toon Trade
- Cartoons-the New Wave: The Toon Boom Hits TV
- Whoops! Why Some Shows Fail
- Theatrical Toons: Triumph and Turmoil
- Bibliography
- Books
- Articles
- Radio and Television
- Special Publications
- Illustration Credits
- Index
- Books From Allworth Press
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