With over 40 years in the industry, production designer Hans Bacher is acknowledged as one of the legends in animation film design.

Bacher has created over 700 color and black & white illustrations for this book.

The book is broken down into these sections:

The Visual Communication
Process
The Psychology of Images
Line
Shape
Value
Color
Light
Camera
Composition

From the publisher:

Featuring hundreds of carefully hand-crafted illustrations as well as significant tuition on how to best compose and use images to create the most powerful frames, this book is potentially Hans P. Bacher's life's work encapsulated in one volume. Here, the internationally renowned production designer shares his expertise in an easy-to-follow and imaginative way - giving tips, exercises, and a depth of knowledge garnered from a lifetime in the industry.

Bacher's production designs have established the look of many seminal animated films such as The Lion King, Balto, Mulan and Beauty and the Beast, so fans of his work will be delighted. While keeping the focus on storytelling, Bacher instructs readers in the art of animated cinematography with the ever-present aim of soliciting an emotional response from the audience. Vision: Color and Composition for Film represents an amazing depth of experience -- and is visually arresting to boot.