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Art of Ratatouille, Limited Edition

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This is my fifth artbook from Pixar.

In typical Pixar artbook fashion, the pages are filled with concept drawings, visualizations and the thought process that went behind the production of Ratatouille. Through these pages, you'll come to a realization that their success is no fluke.

The creators travelled to France to research on the restaurants, food and the people. The effort and level of detail they put into the research can be clearly seen from the artwork from the book. The concept art and renders of the food in 3D made me imagine how they will taste if they were actually real.

You'll be able to see a lot of character designs for the humans as well as the rats. Sculpted models are also provided in photos. The storyboards, as you'll see plenty, are followed strictly in the movie. The compositions and lighting are the art form itself.

This book is filled with life and food, just like the movie. It makes for a perfect coffee table book.

(More pictures are available on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

First of all, if you are not interested in limited prints, do not spend your money in this edition. Just buy the book separately, which is exactly the same one that the simple edition almost ten times cheaper. You have to know you are going to pay for the limited autographed prints included in this Limited Edition. However, if you are crazy about this kind of things; you are a collector or an animation fan, do not hesitate: this is your edition! The book is inside a dark grey box and over it, there is another tray with a hand-written letter by the director, Brad Bird and the limited prints. They are really amazing due to the quality of the prints: strong colors, beautiful surface paper and moreover, they are signed by their authors! I would like to see in a close future Disney and Pixar book editions like this one to get them all.

I am a professional illustrator and own almost all of the "Art of" books from Disney and Pixar. This book ranks right up there with the best of them. If you were blown away by the creativity of the movie then you will not be disappointed with this book...beautifully illustrated...even a lot of stuff that never made it into the film.

I think some reviewers are confusing the movie with the book. The film is amazingly brilliant. The book is not. At least not compared to a book like "The Art of The Incredibles". I just don't feel like I learned much or was shown the wide variety of possible character designs like in the previous Incredibles book. Sorry, just nothing exciting here.

The book was great. Loved the artwork, loved the stories.

What I didn't like was the way amazon has taken to shipping my books lately. In the past they were nicely sealed with a larger cardboard which prevented them from moving around in the box. I recieved several hard cover books with torn backings thanks to this new way of just tossing everything carelessly into a large roomy box with a few bands of 'air bubbles'. Please don't change a good thing.

Great!!

I'm impressed with a lot of detail, comments and marvelous drawings and sketchs.

I'm illustrator and it is useful to me see books like that.

This is a really beautiful book with heaps of pre production drawings, pastel paintings, sketches and designs. Also has photographs of ideas the artists used for their paintings and interesting commentary. I really recommend it. Some of the early concept sketches of the rats made me laugh.

I am very glad to have buyed the art of ratatouille. I'm a big fan of the pixar-films and its so cool to take a look at all the art-work that went into this movie.

I'm from Belgium, the book was good packed and fast delivered.

The pictures are high quality printed and very motivating/inspiring for my own digital work.

Many thanks (sorry for the bad English)

Steven

Even if you didn't like Ratatouille (I don't see why) you can appreciate this book. It is filled with amazing artwork for the film; storyboard, concept sketches, background paintings, color keys, and my favorite concept maquettes/sculptures of the characters. The character sculptures by Greg Dykstra really blew me away. Amazing stuff! Worth the price of the book alone! If you are an artist, animator you can't go wrong with purchasing this book. Artwork is beautiful if not short of brilliant. Some amazing talent at Pixar, who made an amazing film (and still going strong). Very inspiring book!! Not only has the artwork but talks about how Ratatouille came to be.

The Art of Ratatouille didn't disappoint me, because it completely reveals the artistic thoughts which determined the visual concept of the movie. The reader gets an insight into the artists conceptions and the accurate research that was needed to achieve a very rich and believable look. It's good to see how carefully they planned everything to create something really valuable.

This is a very nice edition with beautiful illustrations in it.