Iron Man: The Art of Iron Man, the Movie [Hardcover]

John Rhett Thomas (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Marvel Books
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785133305
• ISBN-13: 978-0785133308
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 10.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #453,854 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pages are soaked with art work, November 13, 2008

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Parka (Singapore) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Iron Man: The Art of Iron Man, the Movie (Hardcover)

Length:: 0:44 Mins

This book contains concept art, photographs, paintings, storyboards, miniatures and live models. The main artists involved were Ryan Meinerding and Phil Sanders.

For people who like mechanical stuff, you'll be glad that to know that plenty of iron man designs are included. The drawings are detailed to the nuts and bolts. The evolution of Iron Man from concept to movie can be clearly seen from the first concept art right down to the life size cast created.

3D modelers who are looking for blueprints won't find them in this book. However, there are renders of Iron Man Mark II and Iron Monger from the front and side view. They should be enough to build the blueprint from.

Also included are the drawings for the environment, props and gadgets. That includes Tony Stark's house, his workshop and the Arc Reactor.

The last part of the book contains storyboards and pre-vis plates. Pre-vis are 3D storyboards screenshots. They discuss the story development and the challenges to shooting the movie.

All the pictures in the book are well captioned. They explain clearly the production process and the effect they are trying to achieve.

The only bad thing about the book is the paper stock. It is not thick enough. While black pages are cool, the paper has to be thick enough to absorb all the ink. If not, the paper becomes wavy. Luckily, it doesn't affect the visual quality of the images printed.

I still gave it a 5-star rating on Amazon -- more to 4.5-star because of the paper stock.

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

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pages are soaked with art, April 28, 2010

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Parka (Singapore) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Iron Man: The Art of Iron Man the Movie (Paperback)

Length:: 0:49 Mins

I'm glad they did a reprint for this book because it's a great book. There are actually people trying to sell this at hundreds -- note the plural -- of dollars. My copy is actually the hardcover but I borrowed the paperback version from a friend to check if there are any differences. There are none. The paperback features exactly similar content as the hardcover, right down to the paper stock. For that reason, I've just copied my old review from Iron Man: The Art of Iron Man, the Movie(hardcover) and pasted here, with minor edits.

The video is from the paperback edition.

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This book contains concept art, photographs, paintings, storyboards, miniatures and live models. All are in high resolution and many printed satisfyingly huge.

For people who like mechanical stuff, you'll be glad that to know that plenty of Iron man designs are included. The drawings are detailed to the nuts and bolts. The evolution of Iron Man from concept to movie can be clearly seen from the first concept art right down to the life size cast created. The main artists involved were Ryan Meinerding and Phil Saunders.

3D modelers who are looking for blueprints won't find them in this book. However, there are renders of Iron Man Mark II and Iron Monger from the front and side view. They should be enough to build the blueprint from. There are also a couple of cool photos of the Iron maquette made by Stan Winston Studios.

Also included are the drawings for the environment, props and gadgets. That includes Tony Stark's house, his workshop and the Arc Reactor.

All the pictures in the book are well captioned and artists credited. Commentary explain clearly the production process and the effect they are trying to achieve, story development and challenges shooting the movie.

The only bad thing about the book is the paper stock. It's just my minor quibble. It is not thick enough. While black pages are cool, they become wavy after absorbing all the black ink. Luckily, it doesn't affect the visual quality of the images printed.

I still gave it a 5-star rating on Amazon -- more to 4.5-star because of the paper stock.

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

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars When will it be available again?, April 1, 2009

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R. Beltran - See all my reviews
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Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Iron Man: The Art of Iron Man, the Movie (Hardcover)

I was browsing this book at a comic book store in union square and the contents of art in this book is amazing, so i decided to buy one online cause its cheaper. Amazon has some sellers for this book and i was lucky enough to purchase one for $35.00 from one of them. Unfortunately after 2 months of waiting for the book, the seller decided not to ship me the book because he thinks he can sell it more for a couple of hundred bucks. He always kept making excuses that he shipped it, it was back ordered, or it was returned by the post office or something. Basically he just stalled long enough for me to get a refund. Now that the price is over $200, how am i suppose to find one with a reasonable price. Thanks a lot seller "comics-now", ur stalling has finally paid off.