The Lion King : A Giant Leap

by Christopher Finch, Don Hahn, Walt Disney Company (Creator)

Winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture and the Academy Award for Best Song and Best Score, The Lion King roars into theaters on January 1, 2003, exclusively in large screen formats around the world. The Lion King -A Giant Leap offers an exciting look at the technological innovations that allowed the animators to return to their original images and then enhance them for a bigger screen, as well as showcasing the development of the unique and luxuriant artwork behind the film, inspired by the majestic landscapes of the African savannah.

Genres: Nonfiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Christopher Finch was born in Guernsey in the British Channel Islands, and now lives in Los Angeles. He is an artist and a photographer who has had one person shows in New York and California, and he is the author of almost thirty non-fiction books including the best sellers Rainbow: the Stormy Life of Judy Garland, The Art of Walt Disney, Jim Henson: the Works, and Norman Rockwell's America. Recently he has embarked on a series of noir-inflected mystery novels set in New York in the late 1960s and featuring the private investigator Alex Novalis. The first of these, Good Girl, Bad Girl, is to be published by Thomas & Mercer in 2013. These books draw on his own experiences in the New York art world at a time when today's SoHo was an urban wilderness with rats frolicking in the gutters and artists eking out a living in barren loft spaces. He is married to Linda Rosenkrantz, an author and a co-founder of the website Nameberry.

Reviews

[Lizzie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Has an interesting introduction, and a quick retelling of the story among some beautiful concept art.

However, the book could have benefited from an editor/proof reader, as the introductions first paragraph cuts off mid-sentence/without punctuation, and the recap of the story jumps around a lot without any linear information.

Yet, for the art alone it was worth the money.

[AndrewPoke1232 · Rating 1 out of 5]

There is a girl with a but on lion's face in the front of the book