This review was first published on Parka Blogs. This book screamed "Buy me!" when I saw it at the Drawn & Quarterly booth at San Diego Comic Con 2009. It is that good! With a brush in the right hand, and a...
opinion by teohyc | 14 wks ago 26 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
The full title of the book is Exodyssey: Visual Development of an Epic Adventure by Steambot Studios. And this review first appear on parkablogs.com A little background first. Steambot Studios consists of six...
opinion by teohyc | 21 wks ago 112 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
WARNING: This review is not certified to be free of spoilers This review was first published on parkablogs.com.If you're still wondering about the real story of Pixar's Up, this book provides very good clues (or...
opinion by teohyc | 29 wks ago | updated 29 wks ago 397 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
This book contains every short films Pixar has made. That's from 1984's The Adventures of Andre & Wally B to 2007's Lifted, including three feature film-based shorts. The format of the book is a bit peculiar....
opinion by teohyc | 33 wks ago | updated 33 wks ago 275 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
This is a great art book filled with concept art, and the content is well written by Linda Sunshine. The book is split into 5 parts, Character Design, Locations, Special F/X, The Making of Monsters vs Aliens and...
opinion by teohyc | 36 wks ago | updated 36 wks ago 718 views | 30 recommendations | 1 comment
This review was originally published on Parka Blogs.Here's a look at Watchmen: The Art of the Film, one of the three tie-in books for the Watchmen movie. The other two being Watchmen: Portraits (Amazon link) and...
opinion by teohyc | 39 wks ago 576 views | 30 recommendations | 5 comments
If you're awed by the fantastic visuals of Halo 3 on screen, this book will give you the concept art that were used to create themIt is filled with concept art on the characters, vehicles, weapons and the...
opinion by teohyc | 45 wks ago | updated 45 wks ago 745 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Time Magazine has produced a gem of a book in this special commemorative edition on President Barack Obama's election campaign. I'm reviewing the paperback edition, which is essentially the same except the covers...
opinion by teohyc | 46 wks ago | updated 46 wks ago 486 views | 15 recommendations | 0 comments
This is a hardcover book with no dust jacket. It's thick and the paper stock is good.Included are many stories on the production process, Will Eisner's comic panels, behind the scenes photography on set, film...
opinion by teohyc | 46 wks ago | updated 46 wks ago 197 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
This is one of the DVDs I bought recently. Straight off, I'll like to say that it's awesome. It's much better than the previous Ratatouille DVD.I hesitated importing it in from Amazon since there's little...
opinion by teohyc | 50 wks ago | updated 50 wks ago 54 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
This book contains concept art, photographs, paintings, storyboards, miniatures and live models. The main artists involved were Ryan Meinerding and Phil Sanders.For people who like mechanical stuff, you'll be glad...
opinion by teohyc | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1380 views | 17 recommendations | 1 comment
The Art and Making of Star Wars Force Unleashed brings you behind the scenes into the game development process, while staying close to artists' drawing boards.This book is choked full with breathtaking concept...
opinion by teohyc | 1 year ago | updated 50 wks ago 437 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
This book carried a much darker tone due to the environment — Earth with tons of trash. The colour palette from the movie was limited to very dark tones. This book isn't as colourful compared to other Pixar art...
opinion by teohyc | 1 year ago | updated 50 wks ago 251 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
This book wasn't hard covered and had 224 pages. The paper stock belonged more to the magazine type, but much thicker.The artbook features plenty of concept art throughout the pages with relating movie scripts. A...
opinion by teohyc | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 283 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
This book shot darts of awesome-ness into my eyes! (Man, that was cheesy.)It also screamed "character design" after you flip through the pages. Nicolas Marlet designed all these beautiful characters in the world...
opinion by teohyc | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1095 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments