Customer Reviews

Intron Depot 4: Bullets (v. 4)

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Intron Depot was highly entertaining. The follow up vol. 2 Blades, and vol. 3 Ballistic were progressively better in volume of color works, novelty, and plenty of eye-candy.

Which is why I had no hesitation when purchasing ID4: Bullets - expecting heavy developmental and promotional art from his game genre. Which was not the case.

In my opinion, comparing vol.4 to the previous IDs, Bullets has about 1/3 the amount of quality imagery such as finished character art and dynamic fully rendered images. The other parts are mostly nominal concept detail/art and light weight 3d models associated with some of the titles he worked on.

I say if I were a fan of the games featuring his art, I would enjoy this book a lot more. It seems to fall short in the amount of complete renderings.

I love masamune shirow!

I loved intron depot 1-3!

This one is just not up to par, mostly character sketches and tiny headshots of characters. Get this only if you're a die hard shirow fan. Everybody else save your cash and wait for "Exon Depot".

Ever since I first laid eyes on Shirow's virtuoso work in the original "Ghost in the Shell," I've enjoyed his singular style and hi outright mastery of digital art. As a result, I've been purchasing his Intron Depot books, which serve as great collections of his art. I've been pleased by the series overall, but in Intron Depot 4: Bullets, I've been a little disappointed. This book is largely composed of conceptual designs he did for video games, and there is little if any comic book/cover work, which made the other volumes so splendid. While Shirow's artistry in this book cannot be detracted, I just wasn't as impressed with the work in this volume - it wasn't what I was expecting, certainly. ID #s 1-3 are your best bet. I hope a 5th volume comes out soon...