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The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr.This article is of interest to the following WikiProjects:. All the illustrations were fully animated in the app version, and many parts of the chapter were annotated with explanatory comments from current Disney animators. In 2013, the book's entire third chapter (which explains the 12 basic principles of animation) was republished in its entirety with the permission of the authors' heirs in the Disney Animated iPad app from Touch Press. The 1981 edition published by Abbeville Press ( ISBN 0896592332) used better quality paper and subsequently image quality than the 1988 edition and revised one from 1995 ( ISBN 0-7868-6070-7) published by Disney's Hyperion with the inverted title The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation. It contains 489 plates in full color, and thousands of black and white illustrations ranging from storyboard sketches to entire animation sequences. The philosophy of the Disney animators is expressed in the so-called 12 basic principles of animation.
The book gives a history of Disney animation and explains the processes involved in clear, non-technical terms. Topping the list of "best animation books of all time" in a poll at AWN, it is still used as reference on and source of inspiration for character animation. Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life (later republished as The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation) is a book by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, two of the key animators at Disney during the Golden Age of animation.