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Shadowline: The Art of Iain McCaig Hardcover – October 7, 2008

by Iain McCaig (Author)

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"What is Shadowline? It is the place where things meet: light and shadows, hope and despair, good and evil. It is, to me, the most interesting place to hunt for stories." So begins this stunningly realized and beautifully rendered new work from master storyteller and artist Iain McCaig. McCaig is best known for his work as a principal designer on the three Star Wars prequels, including the iconic characters Queen Amidala and Darth Maul, as well as his work on many major motion pictures, television, and video games. His work can be seen in such acclaimed films as Terminator 2, Hook, Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, Interview with a Vampire, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Shadowline presents a stunning portfolio of more than two decades of McCaig's masterful concept designs and storyboards, cover art and illustrations, as well as his private sketchbooks and personal paintings, all woven together within the confines of an engrossing, otherworldly tale.

"I've been telling stories for years, with paint, with words, with film and video cameras, and pixels on computer screens. I can't explain storytelling the way teachers explain math or history. To explain what I'm doing when I create would be like waking up while still dreaming. We are all storytellers night after night, for even the most inartistic of us can still dream like masters."
-Iain McCaig

"Iain McCaig's characters arrive on the page fully formed, their life stories expressed through every beautiful pencil stroke, from the lightest fairy tales to the darkest nightmares."
-Doug Chiang, Academy Award-winning designer of Terminator 2, The Mask, Attack of the Clones, and The Phantom Menace

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Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Insight Editions (October 7, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1933784245
ISBN-13: 978-1933784243
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 1.2 x 13 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #255,097 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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About the Author

IAN MCCAIG'S commitment to storytelling has taken many forms: concept designer, illustrator, animator, and screenwriter. A veteran of Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), Lucasfilm Ltd., and George Lucas's premier film production company, JAK Films, he was one of the principal designers of the Star Wars saga and garnered an Emmy Award for People, a Disney Channel production.

NICK SAGAN, the son of Carl Sagan, was the "voice of children from planet Earth" on the voyager spacecraft, and is now a screenwriter for television, including several episodes of the later Star Trek series, and the best-selling author of the critically heralded sci-fi series The Idlewild Trilogy.

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I can only hope there will some day be another book.

Richard A. Tucker

Yes, I absolutely want to see another book and am sure this is only the tip of the iceberg for his work spans a long time.

Tiffany Morantis

Shadowlines is truly a unique book that lovers of fine art will appreciate.

Tim Lasiuta

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful

Great art book just lacking a biography

By Parka TOP 50 REVIEWER on January 13, 2009

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Iain McCaig has been creating art for movies for a long time. This book contains illustrations created for Star Wars prequel, Harry Potter and his concept art for other projects. Most of his work belong to the fantasy genre.

In this book, a fictional interviewer called Bryon is created to introduce readers to the artwork and bring them into Iain McCaig's imaginative world. It's pretty amusing and reads like some fantasy adventure. My minor quibble would be there isn't a biography of his illustrious career.

Insight Editions is the publisher of this thick and big book at 240 pages. It's hardcover with a beautiful matte dust jacket.

There are plenty of glorious concept art, mainly character designs, paintings and sketches. Each is reproduced brilliantly on the glossy paper, showing intricate details of ink, pencil or colour strokes as well as the texture of the medium. While there are digital paintings, most of the illustrations featured are done using traditional medium, showing texture and grain. The large pages enhance the viewing pleasure.

This book is highly recommended to fans of Iain McCaig, fantasy artists, concept artists and character designers. It's very inspiring and overflows with creativity.

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

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful

Nice addition to any Sci-Fi concept art library

By A. Lung on October 11, 2008

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Nice large coffee-table size book filled with fantasy art by the author in a variety of media ranging from pencil sketches and mixed media to digital painting. It includes six small booklets on art fundamentals and story-boarding basics that echo McCaig entertaining conceptual art workshops at the Game Developers conference and provide useful exercises and a good starting point for beginning artists. The downside of the booklets is in that they are held in six separate tight paper sleeves mounted on 3 regular pages roughly in the middle of the book. Perhaps a sturdier and more elegant solution would have been to include them on an envelope/folio attached to the back of the book or to use thicker paper for those pages. While its nice to see much of his Star Wars work in a larger format, this material has already been published in the "Art of Star Wars" series. Personally I would have preferred to see more of McCaig unused Star Wars concepts, though probably Lucas owns the rights to those while saving them for future projects.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

Shadowline: A Journey into creativity

By Tim Lasiuta on November 1, 2008

Format: Hardcover

Art Books can be so predictable: A little art, a short biography, some more art, some sketches, and perhaps a listing of published art/projects. Shadowline is different. Yes, some of the art has been already been published in the Star Wars book, but some of the art has never been seen outside of Lucasfilm offices and sketchbooks. That is the cool part of the book, visually speaking. The concept/storyboards from unfinished projects like Peter pan, and John Carter of Mars is very welcome.

I have always wanted to see an animated version of John Carter, and perhaps the 3rd version from Disney will finally come through, although Dejah Thoris is always beautiful!

The imaginative part of this book is the interviewers journey to meeting Mr McCaig. The truth of the matter is that, the 10 year old concept of art is very true. When we draw withouth thinking what others think, we truly create. Nick Sagan and Mccaig give us a journey into art via the creative process, sorted by themes and storage locations.

Shadowlines is truly a unique book that lovers of fine art will appreciate.

Tim Lasiuta

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

Supassing all expectations

By Richard A. Tucker VINE VOICE on February 17, 2009

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My reaction to moving through this book was a little unexpected.
Usually when I go through a good art book the artist that I am is a little discouraged, my own progress being lacking when compared to my mentors and some of my peers. However, my reaction to this book was a bout of chills and an exhuberant desire to draw like mad. One might conclude that I was underwhelmed, disappointed- a sense that I'm "much better than this loser". Instead, I was impressed in ways that have a hard time meeting any valued description.
Iain McCaig does not make it look simple.
He makes it look deep, fascinating and utterly approachable. He's an example of what being excited about one's work should look like.
I have to recommend this book to artists, particularly those struggling to find a reason to put pencil to good paper (any paper to take a mark is good paper). This is not your run-of-the-mill "art book". It's a celebration of the act of creation in which every mark the artist makes is potentially a portal to a world you want to visit, whether for good or for ill. The creature images run from whimsical in nature to terrible if ever met. The people are heroic, horrific and all points in between. Examples of sketches run throughout the book but they are eleborate, evocative hints when they are run up against full blown painted productions of characters and the worlds where they live.
I see a little Claire Wendling here and the recent work of Mathieu Lauffray there and this is all good. It's not that McCaig is copying anyone or vice versa. It's that they (and others not named) have such an obvious, shared passion for their work that it is an inspiration to both stragglers and jaded professionals in the field (or, at least it should have that effect).Read more ›

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not kidding

this book will change your life

Published 2 months ago by Sophia Chen

A beautiful book. I thought it was presented in such ...

A beautiful book. I thought it was presented in such an interesting way. The illustrations are very lovely and rather inspiring and I am glad to have included it in my book... Read more

Published 5 months ago by ebonpen

Five Stars

Came in perfect conditions, really awesome book!!

Published 6 months ago by Patricia Capelo Nunes

Mister McCaig is an excellent artist. Very nice book although the...

Mister McCaig is an excellent artist. Very nice book although the drawings are speaking for themselves, no need for a rather strange story to accompany them. Read more

Published 7 months ago by Maarten

Five Stars

A fantastic book, a fantastic artist.

Published 7 months ago by Aldo Costas

awesome artwork, interesting presentation

i love the artwork in this book. McCaig is one of my biggest inspirations and his stuff is beautifully laid out in this volume with quantity. Read more

Published 16 months ago by phil

Wow!

This book is amazing. First of all, Iain's art is amazing in and of itself but this book has mini books within it that coach you on the basic and oft forgot fundamentals of great... Read more

Published 20 months ago by Micah

FAN-TASTIC art!!

This book is one of my all time favorites of all the books that I have bought. No real insight into "how" things are done, but very inspirational to look at and drool... Read more

Published 22 months ago by Jeff Bowman

Very nice, different than a normal art book

This book follows a story-oriented path through Iain McCaig's art, with little bits of information concerning some pieces. Read more

Published 24 months ago by Elijah Brown

Creativity abounding

I seldom write reviews, largely because what I look for in something is usually not what most people look for in something, so my perspective isn't always the most helpful. Read more

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