Customer Reviews

Home on the Range: The Adventures of a Bovine Goddess

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being an animation lover, I think the graphic style of Home on the Range looks very interesting. I also was happy to see they made an "art of ..." book about Home on the Range. Though, for some reason they thought it would be funnier to have Maggie telling about the production process, pretending she's a real (cow) actress on a real movie set. So instead of an interesting book about the last hand drawn Disney feature, it became a dissapointing book with maggie joking around on the set. It hardly tells anything about the actual challenges and problems the artists met during the creation of this movie. It reveals some interesting stuff, but comparing to the preverious books from this serie, the texts are really lame and uninformative, especially for who's already in to animation.
The pictures in this book are also dissapointing. The visual style of the movie is so interesting, but it seems like they don't really care about it. Sure, it features some great pieces of concept art.. but overall, it's mainly storyboard and production stills. There's hardly anything on character development (since they pretend it's a real cast in the book).

So... overall the book is dissapointing. definitly the worst book from the whole serie in my opinion.
If you're really interested in animation or Home on the Range, and dont mind spending a few bucks, then it's ok to buy. But if you want to make sure you get some decent stuff for your money, there's a whole load of better books out there!

Being a huge Disney fan and Home on the Range Fan, I was very excited to see a making of book for the film. However unlike the glorious art of books of the past such as the wonderful Art of Pocahontas and Art of The Hunchback of Notre Dame which are literally dripping with concept art and drawings, this is nowhere near the same league. There is very little in the way of making of material and it is very kiddyish, with the book being narrated by Maggie the Cow. Still at least this film got a book unlike the Emperor's new Groove!

For an adult animation fan this is dissappointing, but any younger fans of Disney / Home on the Range will probably love it!

I have to agree with the other reviewers here who were disappointed with the strange and silly theme running throughout this beautiful art book. Throughout the whole book, instead of reading details about the creation of the movie, you will read tongue in cheek narration by Maggie. While sometimes you will read some interesting tidbits, the approach mostly detracts from the book.

It's still a beautiful book, so that is why I am giving it 4 stars. 5 stars for the beautiful and very comprehensive overview of the art and design of the project, and 2 stars for the mostly disappointing narration.

This happens to be one of my favorite artbooks of one of my favorite Disney films. It has everything anyone needs to know about the making of the film and what qualities they used. What more do you want?
The book has the reader feeling like they're being taken on a tour hosted by Maggie the Cow. It's as if she really is talking to the reader and knows what we're thinking. That's what made it so exciting. I love how the book shows art details made by Mary Blair(original Disney artist) and how they made a list of all the Disney classics from Walt's Era. This is another typical refreshingly Disney film as good as those listed inside; maybe not the best in the world, but still wonderful enough for any Classic Disney fan.
I recommend this book for anyone who loves to collect any artbook based on Disney's films.

An embarrassing waste of time. Disney publishing's latest insult to animation fans. The artwork, what there is of it is printed postage stamp size, and the text is the most juvenile drivel that you will ever read. I hated it so much, I donated my comp copy to the Library.
If you want some animation books written with some respect for the reader as well as some beautiful artwork, look to the Chronicle publishing produced Pixar books.
This goes for the sure to be lame Chicken Little Unplucked, too.