...where I'm in a library, or fancy store, or college campus, and I discover they have an entire ROOMFUL of animation art books!    So many of all kinds--the art of every animation, how to do stop-motion, anatomy for kangaroos...I mean like EVERYTHING.  (There's usually a dessert bar there too, so you can eat goodies while you browse.  heh.)

I always wake up from these dreams super depressed, because I don't know of any place in existence that has a library like this.  Pixar, maybe?  Even my college, which is known for its animation program, only has a shelf of animation books in their massive library.  So I feel down and get all wistful and stuff.

And then, it occurred to me...Why couldn't *I* make this library?  I already have a bunch of animation books...why couldn't I collect more?  

SO, these past few months, I've been setting aside part of my budget to get animation/art books.  My collection is growing!  So far it's grown larger than the college's & every library I've been to.  (I secretly wonder if my collection is the largest in the state, but I know that's wishful thinking.)  But the point is--by the end of my lifetime, I hope to have the library that I'm always seeing in my dreams.

I wish DA would allow pictures on these journal posts, b/c I'd show you guys what the library looks like.  Until then, does anyone have any good book recommendations?  I have a lot of the recent art-of books, as well as the Disney Archive series and digital painting & tutorial books.  But do you guys have any art books you can't live without?  Let me know--I want to make this library good.