The Art of District 9
by Daniel Falconer
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The book includes some excellent concept art by Greg Broadmore.
View more District 9 concepts on Greg’s website
The Art of Toy Story 3
by Charles Solomon
A new book in Pixar’s excellent ‘art of’ series is now availiable to order.
Art Of How To Train Your Dragon
by Tracey Miller-Zarneke
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The Gruffalo was created by Studio Soi and Magic Light Pictures for the BBC. The short 30 minute animated film combines both CGI and Stop-Motion techniques to create a stylistic look which is faithful to the original book
Here’s a great interview with Axel Scheffler as he talks through his initial Gruffalo book illustrations.
If you don’t manage to catch it on Christmas Day, the DVD is available now.
The Gruffalo DVD
Dir: Jakob Schuh & Max Lang
Voice Cast: James Corden, Rob Brydon, Robbie Coltrane
The Art of Monsters vs Aliens
by Stephen Colbert
Example Page From The Art of Monsters vs Aliens
The latest ‘art of’ book entitled The Art of Monsters vs Aliens is now availiable. Includes, not only concept art and production sketches, but also making of development CG wireframes, renders and models, which are sadly lacking from the Art of Pixar books.
The Art of UP
by Tim Hauser
The latest book in the excellent ‘art of’ series is now availiable.
Lost and Found DVD
Dir: Philip Hunt
Narrator: Jim Broadbent
Lost and Found: The Story of The Film
by Oliver Jeffers
Lost and Found
by Oliver Jeffers
The Art of Wall.E
by Tim Hauser
Example Page Scan From The Art of Wall.E
The ‘Art of’ series of Pixar books should be on every 3D Artists/Animators bookshelf.
Many examples of pre-production sketches, maquette sculpts, animation thumbnails, digital paintings and digital renders are included. The book also contains development insights from some of the artists and animators at Pixar.
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Added a 3D Animation Bookshelf section.
I have included ‘art of’ and ‘making of film’ books from major studios including Pixar, ILM and Dreamworks. I have also included 3D animation Blu-ray DVD’s.
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