MOONSHINE: DREAMWORKS ARTISTS...AFTER DARK! [Paperback]

DreamWorks Animation (Author), Christophe Lautrette (Editor), Pierre Olivier Vincent (Editor), Angela Lepito (Producer)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2010

From forty-five talented and prolific DreamWorks Studio Art Directors, Character Designers, Production Designers and Visual Development Artists comes the first title of its kind in which an Animation studio creates a book showcasing the art work that its artists create for the sake of creation.

Moonshine features artwork that is made during the precious little time of day when the contributors are not working on stunning upcoming movies such as Puss in Boots, The Croods, Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom, Megamind, Guardians, Scared Shrekless and Kung Fu Panda Holiday; these artists amaze us with their individualistically styled images that they create after dark at DreamWorks Studios.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

DreamWorks Animation artists featured in this book have worked on blockbuster movies Monsters vs Aliens, Surfs Up, Coraline, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, PowerPuff Girls, Lord of the Rings Two Towers, Bee Movie, Astro Boy, Kung Fu Panda, Prince of Egypt, Monsters Inc., Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Nemo, Ratatouille, Shark Tale, Flushed Away and Monster House - to name only a few.

Many of the contributing artists have been nominated for an Annie Award, the highest honor given for excellence in animation chosen by a nominating committee appointed by the Board of Directors of ASIFA-Hollywood (ASIFA is a French acronym "Association Internationale du Film D'Animation). Each year, Annie Award trophies are awarded within 23 categories including Best Animated Feature, Best Animated Home Entertainment Production, Best Animated Short Subject, Best Animated Television Production, and Best Video Game, as well as individual excellence in areas ranging from production design, character animation, character design, and effects animation to storyboarding, writing, directing, music, and voice acting.
 

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Design Studio Press (October 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933492945
• ISBN-13: 978-1933492940
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #761,055 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lots of artists to check out, November 21, 2010

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Parka (Singapore) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MOONSHINE: DREAMWORKS ARTISTS...AFTER DARK! (Paperback)

Length:: 0:34 Mins

Having own a few DreamWorks art books, I always wondered when their collaborative art book would be out. And it's finally out, as Moonshine.

49 artists from DreamWorks has their personal art featured. This includes art from character designers, visual development artists, production designers and art directors. You will see very familiar names like Nicolas Marlet, Nathan Fowkes, Dominique Louis, Chris Appelhans (typo error on contents page, guys!), Paul Lasaine and a whole lot more of talented artists.

The art is beautiful and varied, ranging from sketches to background paintings. I must point out that this book feels very different from your DreamWorks movie art books as there's no overlaying theme and only personal works are featured.

I do recognise some of their styles and is pleasantly surprised and delighted to find that Samuel Michlap has a few of his impressionist-style paintings inside. Also characters from Nicolas Marlet are easy to spot.

The good part about this book is you get to discover new artists, together with their websites and blogs which are listed in the index. So you can check out even more art online.

Nice compilation.

The list of artists featured are:

* Chris Appelhans
* Max Boas
* Jason Brubaker
* Devine Crane
* Sylvain Deboissy
* Paul Duncan
* Nathan Fowkes
* Goro Fujita
* Todd Gibbs
* Alex Hagelis
* Tianyi Han
* Kory Heinzen
* Tang Kheng Heng
* Leighton Hickman
* Ruben Hickman
* Michael Isaak
* Shannon Jeffries
* Bill Kaufmann
* Kristen Kawamura
* Jon Klassen
* Chin Ko
* Ronald Kurniawan
* Paul Lasaine
* Bryan Gregg LaShelle
* Christophe Lautrette
* luri Lioi
* Dominique Louis
* Nicolas Marlet
* Patrick Mate
* Marco Mateu-Mestre
* Samuel Michlap
* Emil Mitev
* Takao Noguchi
* Lindsey Olivares
* Sunil Pant
* Ruben Perez
* Shane Prigmore
* Alex Puvilland
* Simon Rodgers
* Ritchie Sacilioc
* Griselda Sastrawinata
* Jason William Scheier
* Christian Schellewald
* Shannon Tindle
* Pierre-Olivier Vincent
* ZhaoPing Wei
* Nicolas Weis
* Nate Wragg
* Felix Yoon

(There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have!, October 25, 2010

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Olivier Leeman (seattle, wa USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MOONSHINE: DREAMWORKS ARTISTS...AFTER DARK! (Paperback)

Do you love animation? do you enjoy amazing Art work? or you just like pretty pictures? well this is a book for you!
Just the names on this book should make you dream. You have here tightly packed the cream of the best artists in the animation industry .
All day they make beautiful images for you to dream on, well at night they also create master pieces to make themselves dream, in this book they allow you a peak in their untamed imaginations.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Cute but not worth publishing., January 10, 2011

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Jose L. De Juan "Jose De Juan" (Los Angeles USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MOONSHINE: DREAMWORKS ARTISTS...AFTER DARK! (Paperback)

This book was disappointing. Looks like the result of a "hey, let's publish a book with all the scraps we have around!" type midnight meeting. I was hoping for a book of the quality of "Christian Schellewald LA/SF: A sketchbook from California" but this was a book with no rhyme or reason and very little meat. While there are few good drawings, a lot of them seem like filler. Some nice plates of art by Chris Appelhans, Nathan Fowkes, Sam Michlap, Sylvain Deboissy, Marco Mateu and Schellenwald but not their best or most interesting. Again, these are good artists but publishing a book requires a more thoughtful approach.