Book Review: The Art of Wreck-It Ralph
Wreck-It Ralph has an interesting premise that will probably tickle gamers. It's amusing to see how gaming is spoofed. The book features the concept art, character designs, storyboards and...
View ArticleBook Review: ももへの手紙 Art & Animation
A Letter to Momo (ももへの手紙) is a 2011 Japanese anime film directed by Hiroyuki Okiura.This is the concept artbook for the film. It's a 112-page paperback.Collected within are character designs,...
View ArticleBook Review: Animation Sketchbooks
There seems to be two publishers for this title. Chronicle Books are publishing it with the orange cover, and probably for distributing in USA. Thames & Hudson publishes it with a red cover and...
View ArticleBook Review: The Legend of Korra: Book 1 – Air, The Art of the Animated Series
I love the Airbender animation series. I can still remember the strong nostalgia I had while watching the first episode of The Legend of Korra: Book 1 Air, recalling all the characters from the...
View ArticleBook Review: Summer Wars: Material Book
Summer Wars: Material Book is the companion artbook for Summer Wars, the animated movie directed by Mamoru Hosoda. The original edition is サマーウォーズ完全設定資料集 which is in Japanese. Udon has translated the...
View ArticleBook Review: Animated Life: A Lifetime of tips, tricks, techniques and...
Floyd E. Norman is a veteran American animator who has worked in the animation industry for decades, more specifically from 1956 to 2000.With this book Animated Life, he tells us the story about how it...
View ArticleBook Review: The Art of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
This art book for Cloudy's sequel is just as good as the first art book.This is a very well done companion art book to the movie Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2. It's hardcover with 144 pages. The...
View ArticleBook Review: The Noble Approach: Maurice Noble and the Zen of Animation Design
The Noble Approach is a book that's part biography and part animation design tips featuring the late great Maurice Noble. As a kid, I would watch the Warner Bros cartoons and never think about things...
View ArticleBook Review: The Art of How to Train Your Dragon 2
This book is as good as the artbook for the first film, The Art of How to Train Your Dragon. In other words, it's a beautiful artbook.The concept art is split between designs for the characters,...
View ArticleBook Review: Directing for Animation: Everything You Didn't Learn in Art School
Insightful look into animation directionThis book is written mainly for animators and those who want to learn more about animation directing. While I'm not into creating animation, I still learned a...
View ArticleBook Review: The Legend of Korra: Book 2 – Spirits, The Art of the Animated...
Wonderful artbookHolding this book in hand makes me think back to how excited I was when I first watched the The Legend of Korra. I'm not sure why but this does not often happen with other animation...
View ArticleBook Review: The Art of The Boxtrolls
The Art of The Boxtrolls is a pleasing companion artbook to Laika's third stop-motion film. There are plenty of pre-production art for the characters, sets and a substantial amount of text talking...
View Article5 Questions for Joel Dos Reis Viegas
Today we have Joel Dos Reis Viegas from Steambot Studios for this interview. Steambot is a creative agency specialised in developing ideas and providing concept art for the entertainment industry. I...
View ArticleBoxtrolls puppets behind the scenes
Take a look at the puppets from Boxtrolls behind the scenes. By the way, there's The Art of Boxtrolls for the film.Via PaperwalkerTags: animationstop motionvideo
View ArticleBook Review: Adventure Time: The Art of Ooo
Adventure Time fans would be delighted with this humungous 352-page hardcover. It's really worth the money considering the price and how much content there is.Adventure Time: The Art of Ooo provides an...
View ArticleBook Review: The Art of the Book of Life
Here's the artbook for director Jorge R Gutierrez's 3D animated film The Book of Life. Gutierrez was born in Mexico City and raised in Tijuana, and in this 192-page hardcover artbook, you'll see that...
View ArticleBook Review: The Art of Blue Sky Studios
So it's finally Blue Sky Studios' turn to have an artbook for themselves. It's well worth the wait. This is a huge book. 304 pages. Hardcover. And it's heavy too. Note that if you're buying from...
View ArticleBook Review: The Art of Big Hero 6
Beautiful artbook for Disney's Big Hero 6I find this to be an interesting artbook particularly because of the environment designs. About half the book is dedicated to the environment designs which...
View ArticleDisney's Feast - Special Look
Disney's animated short Feast will premiere in front of Big Hero 6Tags: videodisneyanimation
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