Keep an eye out for a minimalistic image of silhouetted soldiers surrounded by pink trees – painted by my friend (and previous landlord) Sunny Apinchapong-Yang. On a personal note, this book features one of my favorite animation concept paintings EVER.
You’ll gain a new understanding of “visual language” as you unfurl this exhaustive exploration of the film’s primary design challenge: “Disney feature animation meets ancient China.” This is one of the best Disney “art of” books ever published. Emulate their extraordinary strength of drawing. Look and learn how these Jedi masters structure their designs. These days, every artist in the entertainment industry will tell you that strong draftsmanship is generally lacking in concept art portfolios. …and speaking of all-star art departments, headliners Terryl Whitlatch, Iain McCaig and Ryan Church defined the term “concept art” for future generations by pouring passion into every pixel and pencil line in this collection. The Art Of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones catalyzed the pervasive concept art craze of today. The Art Of Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones:īe careful not to let any lingering prequel-hate sour some of the most delicious concept art you’ll ever see. This kind of character painting is often left out of animation art books in favor of sketches and more painterly concepts.Įnjoying this list? Please share it on Twitter by clicking here. Rarest of them all, you’ll find high-res Character VisDevs of the entire principal cast. Surf’s Up: The Art and Making Of A True Story features some kaRAYzee-amazing composition, super-appealing character designs and some scintillating color keys.
They’re like The Highwaymen of visual development: Serrano, Vignali, Mateu-Mestre, Lasaine (the list goes on)… The Surf’s Up art department featured a line-up of some of the greatest animation-concept-art-all-stars EVER! Unfortunately, Surf’s Up was almost washed away by the likes of Happy Feet and March Of The Penguins but art (and story) saved it. Remember how, back in 2007, Hollywood released like forty-two penguin movies?
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*Also check out Scott Robertson’s uhMAYzing new book titled, simply: How To Draw Surf’s Up: The Art and Making Of A True Story: The Skillful Huntsman is the essential book for aspiring concept artists and pros who need to shake things up. The final result was an entire “art of” book jam-packed with beautiful concept art and design techniques inspiring enough to cure you of creative block forever. Under Scott’s art direction, Mike, Khang and Felix developed an obscure Grimm Tale as if it was a sci-fi feature film with a George-Lucas-sized budget. The Skillful Huntsman: Visual Development Of A Grimm Tale:ĭuring his time teaching at Art Center, Scott Robertson helped to launch the careers of his now-famous students Mike Yamada, Khang Le and Felix Yoon. So if you’re looking for an excuse to buy a new bookshelf, read on… …and I reserved the comments section for everyone to share their own recommendations. (I didn’t actually rank them because that would be impossible.) In this post I share my first five must-own tomes and tomorrow, I’ll share the rest.
My favorite concept art books have two things in common:ġ.) The work inside is so inspiring that every time I open one of them, I’m overtaken by a wave of pure, tingling fandom.Ģ.) They each contain a unique revelation of the actual filmmaking (or game-making) process.īy popular demand (and in no particular order) I’ve assembled a list of my Top 10 Essential Concept Art Books. ‘King’ Concept by Felix Yoon from one of the best concept art books ever: ‘The Skillful Huntsman’
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