Book Review: What It Is

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...

Book Review: Exodyssey

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...

Book Review: The Art of Up

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...

Book Review: The Art of Pixar Short Films

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....

Book Review: The Art of Monsters vs Aliens

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...

Book Review: Watchmen: The Art of the Film

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...

Book Review: The Art of Halo 3

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...

Book Review: President Obama: The Path to The White House

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...

Book Review: The Spirit: The Movie Visual Companion

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...

DVD Review: WALL-E

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...

Book Review: The Art of Iron Man

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...

Book Review: The Art and Making of Star Wars Force Unleashed

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...

The Art of WALL-E

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...

Hellboy II The Art of the Movie

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...

The Art of Kung Fu Panda

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...
 

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