Meet Bolt: dashing super-dog, loyal companion, star of a hit television show. This heartfelt Disney computer-animated film follows Bolt on a cross country journey as he learns his entire life has been fakeand discovers he doesn't need super powers to be a hero. The Art of Bolt is a beautiful collection of more than 250 pieces of concept art created for the film, including storyboards, sketches, color scripts, full-color illustrations, as well as material from the fabled Disney archives. Quotes by the director, producer, and artists contextualize the art, and thoughtful essays explore Disney's past, present, and future in animation.
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Thumbing through this illustrated book, on the eve of the film s debut, a sense of excitement grew.
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Mark Cotta Vaz is the author of more than 20 books on film and animation. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Chris Williams and Byron Howard are the directors of Bolt. Between them, they have 30 years of Disney Animation experience.
Chris Williams and Byron Howard are the directors of Bolt. Between them, they have 30 years of Disney Animation experience.
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Mark Cotta Vaz is the author of over twenty-one books, including four New York Times bestsellers. His recent works include Mythic Vision: The Making of Eragon, The Spirit: The Movie Visual Companion, and the biography Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong, which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Lots of good art and why-this-way talk,
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Bolt is one of the movies John Lasseter supervises in Disney, after coming over from Pixar. He starts to book off with a foreword that explains the artistic style Disney is trying to achieve -- 2-D painted backgrounds. Throughout the book, there are snippets on the way John has helped the team. In this book are character designs, storyboards, digital paintings, sculptures and colour studies. The captions from the staff explain the challenges faced when creating the movie. It helps readers understand why certain buildings are modeled that way and why certain scenes are composed and shot in another way. I like the production design, and how the movie looks. It's somewhat similar to how Open Season do their backgrounds, but this time applied to the urban landscape. The number of character designs are limited mainly to Bolt, Penny, Mittens and Rhino. Not a lot of experimentation character sketches are shown. Did they get the correct design that fast? It's not a bad point. They do include many varying poses and sketches for the final character designs. Anyway, the only art books I've read that screams character designs straightaway are The Art of Kung Fu Panda and The Art of Bee Movie. The environment paintings are beautiful. Captions for them always relate back to the story. The level of detail just goes to show how much research was done -- as recommended by John Lasseter. There's not a lot of film stills and 3D talk. This book is more on the art, how the art is created generally, and why they are created that way. I'll say it's almost as good as the other Pixar art books I have. (More pictures are available on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book with one minor omission,
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The Art of Bolt provides incredible insight into the movie's production, it explains the influence John Lasseter, who produced several Pixar productions had on the film and how directors Chris Williams and Byron Howard shaped it and includes nearly 150 pages of artwork, plus a beautiful piece of art hidden under the cover that most will probably miss. Unfortunately the books fails to provide much information on the movie's early production, when it was called American Dog and the dismissal of director Chris Sanders.
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If you are a FAN, it's a must have.,
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This book is Great! If you are a fan of the movie, and you always wanted to draw Bolt the right way, you'll have a lot of fun with this book!
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